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ILLUSTRATIONS, 

HISTORICAL  AND  GENEALOGICAL, 


Of 


ing  ^mts's  |ris|  |i^rmg  ^xsi 


1689. 


SECOND  SDinON— ENLARGED. 


BT 

JOHN  p' ALTON,  Esq.,  Babbisteb, 

C0BBS8P.  MS1CB.   8.A.8. 

AUTHOB  OF  'THC  PBUX  BSSAT  ON  THB  ANCIEMT  HISTOBY,  fcc.,  OF  IBBLAND/  (1880): 

'HISTOBY  Of  THE  COUNTY  OF  DT7BL1N/  (18S8); 
*MEM01BS  OF  THE  AECHBISH0F8  OF  DUBUN.'  aSSS);  *  HISTOBY  OF  DBOOHEDA/  (Itfl-i): 

*  ANNALS  or  BOILS.'  (ISW>,  Be.  &c  Be. 


IN    TWO    VOLUMES. 


VOL.  IL 


LONDON: 
JOHN     KUSSELL     SMITH, 

86,     SO  HO     SQUARE. 

XJ>CGC.LXI. 


( 


I 


ILLUSTRATIONS 

^  OF 

KING   JAMES'S    ARMY   LIST. 


The  Cavahy,  Horse  and  Dragoons  fifteen  Regiments,  that,  during 
the  war  of  the  Bevolntion  in  Ireland,  would  have  maintained  the 
Stoart  dynasty,  haye  been  fully  displayed  in  the  preceding  volume; 
their  doings  detailed,  and  the  social  position  of  all  their  Offtcers 
has  been  faithfully  ascertained  and  disclosed.    A  more  noble  host 
has  seldom  been  submitted  to  review.    Six  of  the  Colonels  were 
Peers,  as  were  five  of  the  Captains.    The  other  officers  were  sons 
of  Peers,  Baronets,  or  heirs  of  the  oldest  families,  as  long  as  they 
had  anything  to  inherit.     Yet  this  array  the  late  talented  and 
justly  regretted  Lord  Macaulay  has,  in  his  so  universally  read 
EQstory,  broadly  challenged.     Many  that  commanded  for  King 
James,  says  his  lordship,  were  '  cobleis,  tailors,  butchers,  or  foot- 
men,' and  he  denounced  them  as  such  on  some  authorities  (if  any) 
only  known  to  himself.     The  compiler  of  this  work  felt  sensitivdy 
called  upon  to  vindicate  this  Amnr  List,  but  not  having  heard  of 
Lord  Macaulay's  '  onslaught^  until  the  dose  of  last  year  his  first 
advance  was  only  made  on  the  24th  December,  1859,  when,  as  he 
too  soon  afterwards  learned,  the  illustrious  nobleman  was  on  his 
death-bed.     Had  his   lordship   lived    he  would  doubtless  have 
admitted  that  his  conclusion  was  induced  by  misrepresentation. 
The  vast  scopes  of  territory,  which  these  officers  forfeited  for  their 
faith  and  their  loyalty,  are  sad  but  sure  evidences  of  aristocratic 
station.    How  magnificent  was  the  eulogy  pronounced  by  the  Earl 
of  Derby,  when  he  last  opened  the  Imperial  Parliament.   '  No  man,' 
said  the  Premier,  ^  however  he  may  warmly  admire  the  character 
and  conduct  of  William  the  Third,  but,  while  admiring  the  heroism 
of  the  Dutchman,  must  also  sympathise  with  the  misfortunes  of  the 
fallen  monarch,     •    *    *    and  with  those  who,  with  the  most 
heroic  resignation  and  unbroken  loyalty,  had  followed  in  the  foot- 
steps of  that  fallen  monarch  and  saorificed  themselves  to  their  stem 
love  of  liberty;  these  men  who  had  offered  the  most  precious 
sacrifices  that  could  be  demanded  of  them,  rather  than  violate  their 
honest  principles.' 

The  Inpahtbt,  who  are  here  now  ready  for  review,  will  support 
what  has  been  urged  for  the  Cavalry. 

VOL.  11.  B 


2 


KINO  JAM£S'S  lEISH  ARMY  LIST. 


KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY 


Regiments  of  Infantry. 


1. 
2. 
3. 


4. 
5. 
6. 
7. 
8. 


10. 
11. 
12. 
13. 
14. 
15. 
16. 
17. 
18. 
19. 
20. 
21. 
22. 


The  Eing'6 

John  Hamilton's 

Henbt  Fitz-James's,  Lokd 

Grand  Prior  . 
Mountgashel's    . 
Clancarthy's 
Clanricarde's 
Earl  of  Antrim's 
Earl  of  Tyrone's 
Nugent's  (Richard) 
Gormakston's 
Dillon's  (Henry) 
Lord  Galway's 
Lord  Bellew's 
Lord  Eenmare's 
Lord  Slane's 
O'Neill's  (Cormtjck) 
Cavenagh's  (Charles) 
Butler's  (Thomas) 
Fitz-Gerald's  (John) 
Lord  Louth's 
Lord  Eilmallook's 
Sir  Maurice  Eustace's 


Cwnpanie*. 

Men. 

20 

1,564 

1,200 

364 

247 

13 

754 

200 

13 

395 

200 

13 

269 

200 

13 

785 

350 

549 

634 

13 

874 

40O 

13 

659 

300 

13 

578 

300 

22 

500 

13 

639 

400 

13 

878 

350 

13. 

796 

450 

13 

594 

300 

22 

1,273 

550 

13 

599 

800 

13 

428 

300 

638 

193 

13 

603 

400 

13 

720 

500 

783 

454 

BEGDIBNTS  OF  UXVASTRY. 


Companies, 


Men. 


23.  Eabi.  of  Westmbath's 

24.  Majob-Genebal  Boisseleau's 

25.  LoBD  Bophik's 

26.  O'Gaba's  (Oliveb) 

27.  Gbace's  (John)    . 

28.  Butleb's  (Edwabd) 

29.  McMahon's  (Abt) 

30.  MooBE^s  (Chables) 

31.  Bagkall's  (Dxtdlet) 

32.  O'Neill's  (Gobdon) 

33.  Bbowke's  (Nicholas) 

34.  Sib  Michael  Cbeagh's 

35.  Sib  Hewabd  Oxbttbgh's 

36.  Bbowne's  (Domikick) 

37.  MacCabtie's  (Owen)  . 

38.  Babbett's  (John) 

39.  O'Bbtan's  (Chables)  . 

40.  O'Donovan's  (Daniel) 

41.  LoBD  Iveagh's 

42.  McEllicott's  (Bogeb) 

43.  O'Bbillt's  (Edmund)  . 

44.  MacGuibe's  (Cuconaught) 

45.  Boubke's  (Waltbb)    . 

46.  O'Neill's  (Felix) 

47.  McMahon's  (Hugh)    . 

48.  McGillicuddt's  (Denis) 

49.  Pubcell's  (James) 

50.  LoBD  Hunsdon's  . 


15 

814 

1,286 

1,178 

13 

215 

13 

580 

150 

746 

368 

13 

794 

400 

515 

454 

425 

200 

13 

881 

450 

633 

547 

10 

551 

300 

13 

821 

400 

13 

632 

400 

13 

962 

400 

13 

400 

13 

793 

450 

20 

1,103 

KING  James's  ibish  asmt  list. 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 


THE  Kmo'd. 


The  Kiiig*8  Company,  Michael 
Both,  Captain. 

William  Donington,  CdUm/^ 

William  Mannsell  Barker, 

Thomas  Arthur,  Major. 

Qeoxge  Talbot 

Biehaxd  Fagao. 

Sir  Lake  DowdalL 

SiJf  Gi^goiy  Bytne. 
Patrick  Dowdall. 
Bartholomeir  BnaeeL 

Thomas  Hackett. 

Thomas  Warren. 


Bichard  Fitzgerald. 

{Bobert  BnsselL 
Owen  Bonrke. 

Thomas  Wafer. 


{John  Connell, 
Walter  Hmiket 


} 


} 


William  Fitzwilliaml 
Barnwell,  V 

John  Edwards.  J 


} 


{ 

{Edmund  Fahy, 
John  Clancy. 

{Christopher  Wddon,  \ 
Edmund  Brennan. 

{Charles  McDonnell, 
Peter  PurcelL 

Bichard  Bourke. 

{James  Eussell, 
James  Carney. 

f  David  KlhilL 
\  Christopher  Taaffid. 

{Bobert  Dillon, 
Walter  D*Alton. 


Walter  Kangle,  and  Geo.  Nangle,  /  Edward  Nangle, 
his  Son.  I  J<*n  Gn^ 


Edward  DowdalL 
George  Aylmer. 


{Peter  Bathe. 
Bryan  LyncL 

{Edward  Tipper, 
Thomas  Skelton. 


} 

} 
} 
} 
} 


EnaigM* 
Edward  Arthur. 

Talbot  Salter. 
James  Touchett. 

John  Arthur. 

l^chdlas  Tyrwhitt. 

Piers  Meade. 

Bobert  BamewalL 

Edward  Hanlon. 
Christopher  Archbold. 
Chamberlain. 

Edward  Toole. 

Michael  Warren. 

John  Dillon* 

John  Plunket. 

JohnCusaack* 


THB  kino's  BEOIMENT  OF  INFANTBT. 


John  Seagmya. 

Sir  Anthony  Mqllfidy. 


{ 

Thomafl  Anmdell,  GrenaUm^      I 


John  lyrreli 
John  Arthor. 


•  Mahoney, 

•  Lynch, 

•  Boberts. 
.  Dongan, 
/nnte. 

Lattin,  Qrenad, 


Davis. 

James  Molloy. 

Francis  White, 
Edmond  Kelly, 

Charles  Povey, 
John  Moigan. 


ChapkuM^ 


Andrew  Doyle. 

. Lally. 

Kenealy. 

-i^— Madden. 

■. Ware. 

— -Hia 

— -  Burke  and  -^ 
Two  (not  named.) 


\  Matthew  Taafib. 
>  AdamCnsack. 

} 

Qeofge  BuflseB. 
Hemy  DriscolL 
Thomas  Poynts. 
«^i— Eenealey. 

•-«r^  Kiempstone. 

-• — Meade. 
Hogaq, 


Beilly. 


Kma  jaheb's  ibish  abht  list. 


THE  KING'S. 

This  fine  Begiment  is  reported  in  the  Establishment  of 
1687 — 8  as  tiien  consisting  of  only  twelve  companies  (1080 
men) ;  its  charge  being  stated  as  £17,827  12s.  On  the 
Beyiew  of  August,  1689,  it  appeared  as  counting  twenty 
companies  or  1,200  men;  when  further  strengthened,  it  com- 
prised twenty-two  of  90  soldiers  each,  or  1,980  men,  exclusive 
of  Officers.  The  muster  given  above  seems  yet  more  numer- 
ous, while  it  is  to  be  remarked  that  the  six  last  Companies 
are  given  in  deference  to  the  British  Museum  Army  List, 
but  do  not  appear  on  that  preserved  in  Trinity  College. 
The  celebrated  Doctor  Alexius  Stafford  (a  secular  priest  of 
Wexford  County)  Dean  of  Christ  Church,  Master  in 
Chancery,  and  Member  for  Bannow  in  King  James's 
Parliament,  was  Chaplain  to  the  Begiment;  and  he,  having 
in  his  zeal  passed  into  the  ranks  at  the  battle  of  Aughrim, 
fell  on  that  disastrous  day. 

The  Clarendon  Correspondence  (vol.  1.  p.  434,)  ^ves  an 
interesting  account  of  a  review  of  this  Begiment  in  1686. 
"  This  morning  (8th  June,  1686)  the  Boyal  Begiment  drew 
up  in  St.  Stephen's  Green,  when  my  Lord  Tyrconnel  viewed 
them  and  saw  them  exercise ;  Lieutenant  Colonel  Dorrington 
was  in  his  post;  I  was  not  in  the  field.  His  lordship  told 
the  Officers  that  the  King  was  so  satisfied  in  the  long  services 
of  Sir  Charles  Fielding,  that  he  had  removed  him  to  prefer 
him  to  a  better  post,  and  that  he  did  the  like  for  Master 
BiUingsley,  who  was  then  in  the  field.  Major  Barker  not 
being  yet   come.      His   Lordship  likewise  said,  as  I  am 


THB  king's  BEGIHSNX  OF  INFANTBT.  7 

infomiedy  His  Majesty  did  not  remove  any  of  the  other 
Officers  out  of  any  dislike,  for  he  was  well  satisfied  with  their 
services,  but  to  make  room  for  other  men  of  great  merit. 
Then  presented  Captain  Harman  to  the  Company  he  was 
to  command,  on  the  head  of  which  was  Captain  Margetson, 
who  said  be  bought  his  employment  to  show  his  readiness 
to  venture  his  life  and  fortune  in  the  King's  ^rvioe;  that 
whilst  he  had  been  in  it  he  behaved  himself  with  loyalty  and 
honour,  and  did  now  most  readily  submit  to  his  Majesty's 
pleasure."  This  Begiment  of  In&ntry,  together  with  Fitz- 
James's,  Lord  Galway's,  Sir  Maurice  Eustace's,  and  Colonel 
Bamsay's,  Lord  Gralmoy's,  Lord  Abercom's,  and  Colonel 
Dominick  Shddon's  Horse,  constituted  the  besieging  force 
at  Derry;  and  at  the  Boyne  and  on  the  last  fatal  field  of 
Aughrim,  the  valour  and  steadiness  of  this  truly  Boyal 
Begiment  were  preeminent. 


CAPTAIN  MICHAEL  BOTH. 
{Of  the  Kin^B  Own  Company,) 

So  early  as  in  the  beginning  of  t];ie  fourteenth  ceoituiy 
this  surname  is  recognised  on  Irish  records.  In  1382 
Adam,  son  of  Philip  Both,  was  one  of  the  influential 
proprietors  of  Cork  appointed  to  organize  a  hosting  in  that 
county.  In  seven  years  after  William  Both  was  Mayor  of 
Drogheda;  and  merchants  of  the  name  appear  about  that 
time  in  Kilkenpy  and  New  Boss. 

In  1606  Bpbert  Both  had  a  gnmt  of  divers  rectories 
and  tithes  in  Kilkenny  and  Tipperary,  paced  of  the  estate 
of  the  late  Priory  of  Kenlis.    In  1616  Alderman  Edwacd 


8  KING  JAHES'S  IBISH  ABKT  LIST. 

Both  died,  sdsed  of  Talbot's  Castle  and  other  premises  in 
Ejikenny,  leaving  Kichard  his  son  and  heir.  In  four  years 
after  died  John,  son  of  Peter  Both,  also  an  Alderman  of 
Kilkenny,  seised  of  Sheepstown  and  other  estates  in  the 
County;  his  son  and  heir,  Peter,  was  then  30  years  of  age 
and  married  to  Leiitia,  daughter  of  Walter  Lawless  of  said 
city.  In  1628  Bichard,  son  of  Edward  Both,  was  an 
Alderman  there,  and  he  died  in  1637,  seised  of  CooleshQl, 
the  weir,  fishery  and  mill  at  Puroells-Inch,  and  PuiceUs-Hays, 
Talbot's  Castle,  and  certain  mountain  and  pasture  land  at 
Dromleigh,  all  in  the  County  of  EHkenny;  three  daughters 
»were  his  co-heiresses.  At  the  time  of  the  breaJdng  out  of 
the  Civil  War  of  1641,  Sir  Bobert  Both,  Enight,  was  seised 
of  Tullemaine  in  this  County. 

In  the  commencement  of  the  ensuing  troubles,  the  Pro- 
testant Bishop  of  Ossory,  Doctor  Griffith  Williams,  having 
fled  firom  his  charge,  Doctor  David  Both,  son  of  Geoffi*ey, 
then  the  Boman  Catholic  Prelate  thereof,  entered  into  pos- 
session of  the  See,  under  the  authority  and  protection  of  the 
Supreme  Council  of  Confederate  Catholics,  which  then  sat 
at  Kilkenny;  and  he  continued  in  this  office  during  that 
troubled  interval  for  the  remainder  of  his  life.  Messingham, 
Archbishop  Ussher,  Ware  and  Harris,  bear  testimony  to  his 
learning,  accusing  him,  however,  of  what  they  considered 
demonstrations  of  bigotry,  but  what  in  truth  his  devotedness 
to  the  Catiiolic  reli^on  at  that  crisis  necessitated;  and  it  is 
ever  to  be  remembered  that  he  zealously  advocated  the 
acceptance  of  those  terms  of  peace  which  the  Marquis  of 
Ormonde  offered.  He  was  the  author  of  several  works,  his 
principal  production  being  the  *  Analecta  Sacra  Nova  et  Mira 
de  Rebua  Catholicomm.^  He  died  about  the  year  1651,  it  is 
believed,  in  the  Diocese  of  Ferns,  where  he  was  interred; 


THB  king's  BEGIMENT  OF  IKFAKTBT.  9 

and  a  splendid  oenotapb,  of  black  marble,  eommemorateB  him 
within  the  IrLsh  Cathedral,  oyer  which  he  once  presided. 

The  aboye  Captain  Michael  was  bom  in  1665 ;  he  entered 
the  Irish  Foot  Gkiards  under  the  Duke  of  Ormonde  in  1686, 
and  in  1688  was  appointed  to  the  Captaincy  in  which  he 
continued  throughout  the  succeeding  war.  After  the  capi- 
tulation of  Limerick  he  passed  oyer  to  France,  and  seryed, 
in  1692,  witii  the  army  on  the  coast  of  Normandy,  designed 
for  the  Inyasion  of  England.  He  was  at  Huy,  at  Landen, 
at  Charleroys  with  tiie  army  of  Grermany  in  1694,  and  that 
of  the  Mosdle  in  1695,  became  a  Lieutenant-Colonel  in 
1696,  and  was  attached  to  tiie  army  of  Flanders  in  1697. 
When,  in  the  following  year,  Eing  James's  fiegiment  of 
Foot  Guards  was  formed  into  the  Segment  of  Dorrington, 
M.  de  Soth  was  constituted  its  Lieutenant-ColoneL  His 
subsequent  seryices  are  ftdly  detailed  in  O'CaUagharCa  Bri- 
gadeSf  yol.  1,  p.  173,  Ac.  He  died  in  1741,  leaying  a  son, 
Charles  Edward,  whose  distinguished  life  as  Colonel  of  his 
fikther's  B^iment,  is  exhibited  in  the  same  work,  p.  175,  &c. 
This  latter  died  in  1766,  when  his  Regiment  became  that 
of  Roscommon,  the  Colonel,  in  this  succession,  being  Robert, 
son  of  Patrick  Dillon. 


COLONEL  WILLIAM  DORRINGTON. 

DoBKiNaTOir  was  a  natiye  of  England,*  and  belonged  to 
this  Regiment  of  Guards  from  its  first  formation.  In  the 
Establishment  of  1687-^ ;  he  is  entered  on  the  Pension  List 


*  C^CaBaghan^s  Maearia  Exddkanj  p.  419. 


10  KING  JAKES'S  IBISH  ABMT  LIST. 

for  £200  per  annwn^  subseqiji^iit  to  wldch  date  he  was 
appointed  Colonel  of  this  Corps  by  King  James,  instead  of 
the  second  Duke  of  Ormonde,  and  was  made  a  Privy  Coun- 
cillor of  Ireland,  together  with  the  Dukes  of  Powis  and 
Berwick,  the  Earls  of  Clanricarde,  Abercom,  Carlingford,  and 
Melfort,  the  Lords  Kllmallock,  Clare,  Merrion,  and  Kenmare ; 
the  English  Lord  Chief  Justice,  Sir  Edward  Herbert  (who 
followed  the  Eang's  fortune,  and  subsequently  became  Ids 
Chancellor  at  St.  Germains),  Colonel  Patrick  Sarsfield, 
afterwards  created  by  him  Earl  of  Lucan,  and  Sir  Ignatius 
White  of  Limerick,  Baronet.* 

Colonel  Dorrington  was  afterwards  commissioned  by  the 
King,  immediately  before  the  meeting  of  the  Parliament  in 
Dublin,  to  serve  at  the  siege  of  Deny,  and  there  was  he 
wounded,  but  not  so  badly  as  long  to  supersede  his  active 
duty.  In  the  September  of  that  year,  when  King  James  was 
in  the  advance  to  arrest  the  progress  of  his  enemy  in  Louth, 
having  marched  within  a  short  distance  of  Dundalk,  he 
directed  Colonel  Dorrington  with  the  Brigade  of  Guards  to 
come  on  as  fiir  as  Mapletown-bridge,  and  resolved  himself  to 
encamp  near  that  of  AfPane.t  Dorrington  subsequentiy  dis- 
tinguished himself  at  the  Boyne,  and  was  Governor  of 
Limerick  in  the  latter  portion  of  that  year  (1690).  When 
Tyrconnel  passed  over  to  France,  leaving  the  Duke  of 
Berwick  his  Deputy  in  the  Vice-Boyalty  of  Ireland,  Brigadier 
Dorrington  was  one  of  those  deputed  to  represent  to  his 
Grrace  that  the  power  so  attempted  to  be  conferred  upon  him 
was  illegal,  but  that  the  Great  Council  in  Limerick,  consisting 
of  tixe  Prelates,  Nobles,  and  Officers,  were  willing  tiiat  he 

^  (TCaUaghan's  Brigades,  t.  1,  p.  168. 
t  Clarke's  James  IL,  tqL  2,  p.  379. 


THE  king's  BBGIMBNT  OF  INVANTBT.  11 

should  have  ihe  civil  and  military  authority,  provided  he 
would  admit  a  sdect  coundl  of  officers  to  direct  his  militaiy 
operatiims,  and  allow  two  able  persons  from  each  of  the 
provinoes  to  advise  him  in  relation  to  the  dvil.*  On  Tyr- 
conneFs  return  from  France,  Dorrington  was  made  Major- 
Geneial  of  the  Army.f 

Immediately  before  the  last  siege  of  Limerick,  he  was 
taken  prisoner  at  the  battle  of  Aughrun,^  and  was  thereupon 
sent  up  to  Dublin,  from  thence  to  Chester,  and  at  last  to  the 
Tower  of  London ;  but  was  so  soon  released  or  exchanged  by 
the'  Sevolutionists,  as  to  be  able  to  resume  in  France  his 
active  adherence  to  the  Jacobite  cause.  There  he  retained 
his  Colonelcy  of  the  Boyal  Irish  Foot  Guards ;  of  which,  in 
the  remodelling,  Oliver  O'Oara,  who  had  been  a  fall  Colonel 
in  Ireland,  was  constituted  Lieutenant-Colonel,  and  John 
Roth,  Major.  [To  the  time  of  his  decease  at  Paris  in  1718, 
Dorrington  was  Colonel  of  this  Regiment;  styled  King 
James's,  until  after  the  peace  of  Rysvdck,  when  it  was  re- 
modelled as  Dorrington's.  In  1704  he  attained  the  grade  of 
Lieutenant-Greneral  in  France,  and  served  in  Flanders  and 
Germany  till  1710,  when  he  made  his  last  campaign.  His 
Regiment  subsequently  took  name  from  its  successive 
Colonels,  as  Roth's,  Roscommon's,  and  Walsh's.] 

The  ParU  Qttotidienne  of  March,  1841,  had  an  interesting 
notice  of  this  Colonel's  descendants:  ''Died  at  Abbeville, 
within  a  few  days  of  each  other,  the  Comte  and  the  Chevalier 
Macclesfield  Dorrington,  aged  the  one  85,  the  other  74,  and 
descended  frt>m  'Lord'  William  Dorrington,  who  was 
Colonel  of  an  'English'  Regiment  which  bore  his  name. 

*  (yConar^s  MiUt  Mem.^  p.  126.        f  Stary^s  Impartial  HisL,  pt.  H,  p.  55. 

%  Siory*8  Impartial  Hiatary,  pt  IT,  p.  137. 


12  K£Sa  JAMES'S  IBISH  ABHY  LIST. 

He  emigrated  with  James  the  Second,  and  was  created 
during  his  exile  a  Peer  of  England,  by  the  monarch  he  had 
80  fidthfullj  followed.  With  these  two  brothers  the  branch 
of  the  Dorringtons,  so  established  in  France,  became  extinct, 
but  the  name  continues  in  England.'' 

Another  Dorrington  (Andrew)  was  Captain  in  the  Earl  of 
Clancarthy's  Regiment  of  Infimtry,  but  William  is  the  only 
one  on  the  BoU  of  Attainders,  where  he  is  described  as 
*  of  Dublin; 


LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  WILLIAM 
MAUNSELL  BAEKER 

This  surname  does  not  seem  to  have  been  known  in  Ireland, 
until  the  days  of  the  Tudor  dynasty,  ndither  does  it  appear 
on  the  Attainders  of  1642  or  1691.  In  1616  the  Commis- 
sioners of  Wards  recommended  William  Barker,  Esquire,  to 
the  office  of  King's  feodary,  within  all  the  Province  of 
Ldnster  and  the  English  Pale ;  which  office  was  granted  to 
him  accordingly.  King  Charles,  on  His  Bestoration,  con- 
firmed the  Order  of  Elnighthood  of  the  Boyal  Oak  on  three 
individuals  of  this  surname,  William  Barker,  then  styled  of 
London,  another  William  of  Suffolk,  and  Abel  Barker  of 
Butlandshire.  By  the  Act  of  Explanation  (1665)  a  William 
Barker  was  restored  to  lus  estates  in  the  County  of  Limerick, 
and  he  further  assured  his  title  by  a  patent  of  1667,  which 
conveyed  to  him  not  only  3,344  acres  in  Limerick,  but  1,339 
in  Tipperary,  856  in  the  King's  County,  1,752  in  Cork,  and 
6,827  in  Down.     This  patentee  became  an  Alderman,  and. 


THE  king's  BEGIMENT  OF  INFANTBT.  13 

being  so  seified  in  fee  of  the  Limerick  lands,  as  also  of  a 
manor  in  Essex,  he  settled  same,  on  his  marriage  in  1676,  to 
fiunilj  nses ;  and  the  eldest  son  of  that  marriage  was  Sir 
William  Barker,*  afterwards  established  at  Kilcoolj  in 
Tippeiary. 

There  can  be  little  doubt  that  the  Officer  here  under  con* 
sideration  was  of  this  Limerick  fiunily.  He  was  Major  when 
King  James  entered  Dublin  on  Palm  Sunday  (1689),  was 
immediately  after  made  Lieutenant-Colonel,  on  Dorrington 
being  appointed  Colonel,  and  was  at  the  blockade  of  Derry. 
After  the  return  of  the  Duke  of  Tyrconnel  from  France,  he 
was  created  a  Brigadier-General  of  Li&ntry,  and  fell  at  the 
battle  of  Aughrim. 

A  Charles  Barker  had,  as  hereinafter  mentioned,  on  the 
Bestoration,  a  confirmatory  grant  of  396  acres  part  of  Croboy 
in  Meath,  theretofore  the  estate  of  the  Lynches  or  the 
Leynses  of  the  Ejiock;  while  Captain  Phillip  Barker  was  one 
of  those  mentioned  in  the  adjudications  to  the  ^  1649'  Officers. 


MAJOR  THOMAS  ARTHUR. 

This  name  appears  of  Lish  record  from  the  time  of  Edward 
the  Second,  and  Ortelius's  Map  locates  the  family  in  the 

Barony  of  Clanwilliam,  County  of  Limerick. In  the  year 

1210,  Robert  Arthur  was  a  benefiu^r  to  the  great  Abbey  of 
St.  Thomas  in  Dublin.  In  1309  Matilda,  the  widow  of 
Richard  Arthur,  who  died  seised  of  lands  held  under  the 

Crown,  had  an  assignment  of  dower  thereoff.    In  1314  John 

—   -  —  ..  -^  — .- . —  

*  Appeal  Ca$e$. 


14  KING  JAMJGS'S  IBISH  ABUT  LIST. 

Arthur  was  one  of  the  High  Bailiffs  of  lamerick,  and  the 
name  appears  subsequently  filling  that  office  on  forty-seven 
occasions,  and  the  Mayoralty,  on  forty-two.  In  1392  John 
Arthur,  a  citizen  of  Limerick,  obtained  an  exemption  from 
being  called*  upon  assize  Juries.  In  1403  Robert  Arthur 
died  seised  of  estate^  in  Sldne  and  other  parts  of  Meath, 
leaving  Peter,  his  son  and  he^,  who,  in  1431,  had  a  Commis- 
sion of  Inquiry  within  the  Pide  intrusted  to  him.  In  1486, 
Dr.  Thomas  Arthur,  by  birth  of  Limerick  City,  died  there 
Bishop  of  the  See.  In  the  first  Parliament  of  Elizabeth, 
Edward  Arthur  was  one  of  the  Members  elected  to  represent 
that  City ;  as  was  Alderman  Nicholas  Arthur  in  1613. 
After  the  Restoration,  a  patent  of  lands  in  the  County  of 
Limerick  to  Captain  John  Winckworth,  a  Cromwellian,  con- 
tained a  saving  of  the  right  of  Dr.  Thomas  Arthur  to  certain 
lands  tiierdn  named,  as  a  nominee  after  reprisals ;  and  he  had 
a  similar  saving  in  a  patent  of  premises  in  the  City  of 
Limerick,  to  Wentworth,  Earl  of  Roscommon;  while,  under 
the  Acts  of  Settlement  and  Explanation,  he  was  restored  to 
hiB  principal  seat  and  2,000  acres  of  land ;  as  was,  by  the 
same  legislative  arrangement  of  property,  John  Arthur  to  the 
estates  of  his  father,  Alderman  Arthur,  with  some  exceptions ; 
and  a  Patrick  Arthur  was  likewise  thereby  similarly  restored. 
In  1678  Pierce  Arthur  had  a  confirmatory  grant  of  upwards 
of  400  acres  in  Clare,  as  had  Dymphna  and  Thomas  Arthur 
of  1,400  in  Galway.  In  King  Jameses  Charter  to  Limerick, 
Nicholas  Arthur  was  named  one  of  the  Aldermen,  (and  he 
Represented  that  City  in  the  Parliament  of  1689) ;  while  James 
and  Thomas  Arthur  were  6f  its  Burgesses.  This  Thomas  it 
may  be  concluded  was  the  above  Major.  At  the  Parliament 
of  Dublin  in  1689,  he  sat  as  one  of  the  Representatives  for 
the  Borough  of  Newcastle,  in  the  County  of  Dublin. 


THE  kino's  REGIMfiNT  OF  INFANTBT.  15 

An  early  notice  of  thb  Thomas  appeare  in  the  Carreepond- 
ence  of  the  Earl  of  Clarendon  (6th  May,  1686),  when  writing 
to  the  Earl  of  Sonderland,  he  recommends  ''that  Captain 
Thomas  Arthnr,  a  Roman  Catholic,  who  lately  bought  the 
employment,  be  advanced  to  the  Lieutenant-Colonelcy  of 
the  Guards.''*  Early  in  the  September  of  that  year  he  was 
sent  to  Connaught  by  Tyrconnel  to  raise  recruits,  but,  not 
having  the  Earl  of  Clarendon's  order,  he  was  recalled,  and 
this  the  rather  ''  as  the  Captun  could  command  no  serviceable 
interest  in  Connaught."  f  Lord  Clarendon,  having  been 
afterwards  accused  of  thus  recalling  Arthur,  defended  himself 
as  that  the  raising  of  men  is  a  matter  of  great  consequence, 
and  ought  to  be  done  by  no  authority  but  that  of  the  Chief 
€rovemor.$  Beddes  Major  Thomas,  there  were  of  the 
fiunily  in  this  Begiment  John  Arthur  a  Captain,  Edward 
and  John  Arthur  Ensigns;  and  Patrick  Arthur  was  a 
Captain  in  Major-Greneral  Boisseleau's  Li&ntry.  Oqe  of 
these  Captains  was  wounded  at  Deny,  while  the  above 
Major  fell  at  the  Boyne;§  and  Dean  Story  records  the 
death  of  a  Colonel  Arthur  at  the  battle  of  Aughrim  ||  who, 
it  would  seem  from  Lodge,^  was  married  to  a  niece  of 
Bichard  Earl  of  Tyrconnel.  This  Colonel  was  Robert 
Arthur,  in  trust  for  whom  the  aboye  Captain  Thomas  held 
the  Clerkship  of  the  Crown  and  Hanaper,  in  1689.  The 
outlawries  of  1691  include  this  ThomaSf  described  as  of 
Colganstown,  County  of  Dublin,  with  three  others  in  said 
Coimty,  and  one  in  each  of  those  of  Limerick,  Clare,  and 


*  Singer's  Correspondence^  voL  2,  p.  372. 

f  Singer's  Correspondence  of  Lord  Clarendon^  yoL  2,  pp.  57&-9. 

t  Singef's  Correspondence,  t.  2,  p.  872.      {  darkens  James  //.,  t.  2,  p.  S99. 

n  Ipqfoniol  EiMtory,  pi  11.,  p.  138.  If  Peerage,  ▼.  4,  p.  ISO. 


16  kutg  James's  ibish  abict  list. 

Kilkenny.    Various  claims  were  made  on  their  estates  at 
Chichester  House. 

In  later  years  this  femily  was  represented  in  the  County  of 
Dublin  at  Seafield. 


CAPTAIN  RICHAED  FAGAN- 

This  &mily  is  by  some  considered  of  English  descent,  while 
others  prefix  to  it  the  Milesian  *  O.'  One  of  the  most 
ancient  rolls  of  Irish  record,  almost  synchronizing  with  the 
English  invasion,  recognises  William  ^  Fakun^s'  possession  of 
a  plot  of  ground,  several  houses  as  well  of  stone  as  of  wood, 
with  a  tower  outside  Werburgh's-quay  in  the  City  of 
Dublin.  In  the  thirteenth  century  the  name  was  established 
in  Meath,  and  in  its  branches  became  early  connected  with 
the  De  Lacys,  Plunketts,  and  Bamewalls.  In  1358  John 
Fagan  was  High  Sheriff  of  the  Liberties  of  Meath ;  and  in 
1373  was  appointed  Governor  of  the  important  Castle  of  the 
Pale  at  Trim;  while  in  1401  Nicholas  Fagan  was  one  of 
the  Commissioners  selected  for  assessing  the  Barony  of 
Moyallen  therein  with  a  com  subsidy. 

Christopher  Fagan,  the  representative  of  the  Meath  line, 
and  inheritor  of  their  estates,  was  induced  to  lend  his 
influence  in  maintaining  Perkin  Warbeck's  cbum  to  the 
Crown.  He  (as  it  is  said  in  an  old  &mily  pedigree,  verified 
by  wiUs  and  funeral  entries  in  the  Ofiice  of  Arms,  and  lately 
in  the  possession  of  Mr.  William  Fagan  of  Cork),  was  slain 
with  four  of  his  sons  at  the  siege  of  Carlow,  when  a  great 
portion  of  their  Meath  estates  was,  as  confiscated,  granted 


THE  king's  BEGIHENT  OP  INFANTBT.  17 

to  the  Aylmers,  Bamewalls,  and  other  gentry  of  the  Pale. 
John,  the  youngest  son  of  Christopher,  was  also  at  Carlow, 
being  then  but  eighteen  years  of  age ;  he,  however,  escaped 
the  slaughter,  and  fled  to  Cork,  a  city  that  held  out 
strenuously  for  Ferkin.  He  there  married  Phillis,  daughter 
of  William  Skiddy  of  Skiddy's  Castle  in  that  city,  by  whom 
he  had  two  sons,  and  a  daughter  Phillis,  who  married  Thomas 
Gould.  Bichard,  the  eldest  son  of  Christopher,  left  a  son 
Thomas  Fagan,  who  acquired  that  estate  of  Feltrim  in  the 
County  of  Dublin,  from  which  the  head  of  the  family  has 
rinoe  derived  a  territorial  designation.  His  eldest  son, 
another  Christopher,  was  High  Sheriff  of  the  City  of  Dublin 
in  1565  and  1573;  and  it  was  during  his  possession  of 
Feltrim  that  the  unfortunate  Earl  of  Desmond,  being  a 
prisoner  of  state  in  the  Castle  of  Dublin,  and  his  health 
fidling  so  as  to  need  the  air  of  the  coimtry,  this  Christopher 
Fagan  was  selected  to  take  charge  of  his  person  at  his 
residence.  But  when  it  was  intimated  to  Fagan  that  it 
would  be  his  duty  to  watch  the  captive,  he  magnanimously 
replied,  that  the  Earl  would  be  welcome  to  diet  and  lodging 
at  his  house,  yet  would  he  never  consent  to  be  his  keeper. 
Desmond,  it  may  be  added,  in  such  liberal  guardianship  was 
allowed  to  walk  abroad  on  his  parole;  but,  abusing  the 
privil^e,  he  escaped  into  Munster,  where,  entering  soon  after 
into  open  rebellion,  he  was  treacherously  murdered.*  In 
1611  John  Fagan  had  a  grant  of  the  Castle  of  Bullock  in 
the  County  of  Dublin,  with  the  Fishery  and  haven  and  the 
Castle  of  Bochestown,  &c.;  and  in  1669  Patrick  O'Fagan 
passed  patent  for  301  acres  in  Louth. 

The  relative  and  namesake  of  the  above  Christopher  was 

"^D'AUmU  History  of  the  Co.  DubUn^  pp.  211-12. 

VOL.  n.  c 


18  KING  JAK£8*S  IBI8H  ABKY  LIST. 

declared  a  forfeiting  proprietor  during  the  Civil  War  of  1641 , 
but  a  Decree  of  Innocence,  obtained  on  the  Bestoration, 
restored  his  estate  of  Feltrim  to  him  and  his  heirs  male. 
His  death,  in  1682,  is  recorded  in  a  funeral  entry  in  the 
Office  of  Arms,  wherein  he  is  described  as  ^Christopher, 
son  of  Richard,  son  of  John,  son  of  Bichard  ;*  that  he  died 
12th  February,  1682--3,  and  was  buried  in  St.  Audoen's 
Church,  Dublin;  having  married .  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir 
Nicholafi  White  of  Leizlip,  by  whom  he  had  several  children, 
of  whom  (says  the  record)  Richard  and  Peter  are  now  living, 
and  one  daughter,  Elizabeth,  married  to  Lord  Strabane  (and 
who  became  mother  by  him  of  Claud,  fourth  Earl  of  Aber- 
com,  Colonel  of  a  Regiment  of  Horse  in  this  Army,  as 
before  noticed).  The  Richard  here  mentioned  was  the  above 
Captain,  and  he  married  Ellen,  daughter  of  Thomas  Aylmer 
of  Lyons,  by  whom  he  had  one  daughter,  Anna-Maria;  but 
neither  he  nor  his  brother  Peter  having  left  male  issue,  and 
the  title  to  the  inheritance  having  thereby  vested  in  the 
Crown,  Charles  the  Second,  by  privy  seal,  granted  it  to 
Claud,  Lord  Abercom,  the  said  son  of  their  sister,  Elizabeth. 
Richard's  unde,  John  Fagan,  became  the  founder  of  that 
Munster  line  in  which  the  representation  is  now  preserved; 
and  his  son,  Christopher,  was,  as  hereafter  noticed,  a  Captain 
in  Lord  Kenmare's  Li&ntry;  while  in  Sir  Michael  Creagh's, 
Patrick  'F&gan*  was  also  a  Captain,  and  another  of  the 
name  Chaplain  therdn.  The  Attainders  of  1691  exhibit  the 
names  of  Thomas  Fagan  of  Kinsale  (who  appears  to  have 
been  a  Lieutenant  in  Lord  Kilmallock's  Lifantry),  Bryan 
'OTegan'  of  Drumgagh,  County  of  Down,  clerk;  Manus 
'  OTegan'  of  Clonallon,  County  of  Down ;  with  Richard 
Fagan,  described  as  of  Drakestown,  County  of  Meath,  and 
Feltrim,  County  of  Dublin.     The  value  of  the  latter's  estate 


THB  KIKG^B  EEGIMSSTT  OT  IKFANTBT.  19 

alone  was  so  oomddemble)  that  an  inquiry  into  its  eircam- 
stanoed  was  directed  in  169(X-1)  with  the  object  of  presenting 
it  as  a  royal  boon  to  Sir  Bobei^  Southwell.*  The  sale  of  All 
his  estates  ultimately  brought  in  not  less  than  £100,000,  out 
of  which  only  his  wife*s  jointure  and  his  daughter's  portions 
(fot  he  cBed  without  male  issue)  were  allowed  to  be  paid,  yiz, ; 
£1,000  for  his  eldest  daughter  Anne,  and  £400  fbr  each  of 
his  other  daughters,  ElLsabeth  and  Helen.  They  were  all 
minors  at  the  time  of  the  claims  made.  Helen  afterwards 
manned  John  Taylor  of  Swords,  (arUe  vol.  1.  p.  437.) 

A  James  Fagan  passed  after  the  Revolution  into  the 
Spanish  service,  where  he  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
Lieutenant-Colonel  of  HameFs  Regiment.  He  marriad  th6 
heiress  of  the  house  of  Turges  in  LorrainCi  and  was  living  in 
1 722.t  See  further  of  tiiis  fiunily  at  the  notice  of  Christoi^ier 
Fagan,  a  Captain  in  Lord  Kenmare's  Li&ntry. 


CAPTAINS  SIR  LUKE,  PATRICK,  AND 
EDWARD  DOWDALL. 

This  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of 
Ejng  Edward  the  Third.  In  that  reign  John  '  Dowedale,' 
was  Sheriff  of  Louth;  he  was  a  Justice  in  egre  in  1384; 
and  died  early  in  the  reign  of  Henry  tiie  Fourth.  Peter 
*  Dowedale,*  his  son  and  heir,  had  livery  of  his  estates  in 
1418.    In  1422  the  custody  of  the  lunds  and  estates  of  John 

■_!■  ■■!-        —  ■  --"■ ---r  ..-  ■ — ^ . ^    _ 

*  Tharpe^s  CataL  Southwell  MS8.y  p.  213.        f  Foffon  MSSi 


20  KING  JAMES'S  IBISH  ABMY   LIST. 

Walfihy  chaplain,  in  the  city  and  suburbs  of  Dublin,  was 
committed  to  Robert  Dowedall,  who  by  the  style  of  Robert 
Dowdall  of  Newtown-Termonfeckin,  County  of  Louth,  was, 
in  1446,  appointed  Chief  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas  in 
Ireland.  His  son  Sir  Thomas  was  Master  of  the  Rolls  in 
1478,  and  James  Dowdall  was  appointed  in  1583  Chief 
Justice  of  the  Queen's  Bench.  An  unprinted  Act  of  Re- 
sumption of  1468  contains  a  saving  of  the  rights  of  the 
aforesaid  Robert  Dowdall.  In  1543  George  Dowdall  was 
appointed  Primate  of  Armagh,  but  retired  firom  his  See  on 
King  Henry's  efforts  to  introduce  the  Relfbrmation ;  he  was, 
however,  restored  thereto  on  the  accession  of  Queen  Mary. 
Edward  Dowdall  of  Glaspistol  was  one  of  the  Representatives 
of  the  County  of  Louth  in  Queen  Elizabeth's  first  Parliament ; 
and  in  1600,  on  the  petition  of  Peter  Dowdall  of  Drogheda, 
a  commission  was  issued  for  establishing  his  right  in  certain 
lands  in  Termonfeddn  and  elsewhere  in  Louth;  while,  in 
1608,  Sir  John  Dowdall  of  Piltowne,  in  Waterford,  had  a 
grant  of  license  to  hold  markets  and  fidrs  in  Rathkeale,  with 
divers  castles  and  lands  in  Limerick.X  Laurence  Dowdall  of 
Athlumney  and  Nicholas  Dowdall  of  ^rownstown  attended 
the  celebrated  meeting  on  the  hill  of  Crofby ;  and  the  Attain- 
ders of  1642  present  their  names  with  that  of  Walter  of 
Athboy.  Laurence  was  nevertheless  one  of  the  Confederate 
Catholics,  who  adhered  to  the  King  at  the  meeting  in 
Ealkenny,  and  he  was  accordingly  excepted  from  pardon  for 
life  or  estate  in  Cromwell's  Act  of  1652.  In  a  grant  of 
Athlumney  as  forfeited  property  to  William  Ridges  in  1666, 
a  saving  was  inserted  ''  of  such  right  and  no  other  as  should 
be  adjudged  due  to  Sir  Luke  Dowdall,  Knight,  as  a 
nominee,  in  the  town  and  lands  of  Athlumney.''  This  Sir 
Luke,  who  was  the  son  of  the  aforesaid  Laurence  Dowdall, 


THE  king's  BEOIMENT  OF  INFJlNTBT.  21 

liad  a  confinnatory  grant  in  1677  of  4,265  acres  in  BoBOommony 
and  in  the  foUopvnng  year  of  3,239  aores  in  Meaih,  including 
AthlumneTy/ 

Besides "uiese  Captains,  there  appear  upon  this  service 

Dowdall,  chapkdn  in  Lord  Abercom's  Horse ;  another 

Edward  Dowdall,  a  Quarter-Master,  and  Joseph  Dowdall,  an 
Ensign  in  Lord  Louth's  Regiment  of  Li&ntry ;  two  Dowdalls 
in  Commission  on  Colonel  Richard  Kugent's;  while  a  John 
Dowdall  was  subsequently  promoted  to  a  Majority  in  Lord 
*  Bellew's.'  The  list  of  names  for  the  Shrievalties  in  Ireland, 
sent  over  to  Lord  Clarendon  the  Viceroy,  contained,  for  the 
County  of  Meath,  the  name  of  Launcelot  Dowdall,  with  the 
observation,  '  a  factious  caballing  whig ;'  to  which  Clarendon 
replied  in  comment,  ^  This  gentleman  is  of  an  ancient  English 
fiunily  in  that  county,  where  he  behaves  himself  with  great 
sobriety,  and  is  so  far  from  being  a  fitvourite  of  the  whigs  or 
caballing  with  them,  that  they  are  dissatisfied  with  his  being 
Sheriff,  concluding  him  a  friend  to  the  old  natives  of  the 
County.*  * 

John  Dowdall  was  one  of  the  Representatives  of  the 
Borough  of  Dundalk  in  the  Parliament  of  1689,  as  was 
Henry  Dowdall,  Recorder  of  Drogheda,  for  that  ancient 
town.  This  latter  it  was  who,  in  duty  of  his  office,  delivered 
that  address  of  its  Corporation  to  King  James,  when  entering 
the  town  on  the  7th  of  April,  1689,  which  is  preserved  in 
the  ArUhologia  Hibemica  (vol.  1,  p.  42).  The  Attainders 
of  1691  comprise  the  names  of  the  above  Sir  Luke,  described 
as  LucaB  Dowdall  of  Old  Connaught,  County  of  Dublin,  and 
4f  Dublin  City ;  with  fifteen  others  of  the  name. 
NSir  Lucas  forfeited  in  Meath  extensive  estates,  off  which 

♦  Singer's  CcTretpondence  of  Lord  Clarendon^  v.  1,  p.  286. 


22  KINO  JAH£S'g  IRISH  ABHT  LIST. 

his  widow.  Dame  Elaiherine,  claimed  dower,  but  was  dismist, 
as  were  alike  the  claims  of  their  children  Anne,  Thomasine, 
and  Mary  Dowdall  for  portions,  and  that  of  Daniel  Dowdall, 

his  son  and  heir,  by  his  guardian,  for  a  fee  therein. 

Margaret  Dowdall  claimed  in  her  own  right  and  was  allowed 
the  benefit  of  sundry  debts  due  to  her,  but  ^  put  out'  in  the 
name  of  Patrick  Dowdall,  who  was  attainted ;  while  she  also 
claimed,  as  one  of  the  executors  of  Lady  Jane  Dowdall,  a 
mortgage  debt  affecting  the  County  of  Longford  estate  of 
sfud  Patrick  Dowdall.  Lady  Alice  Dowdall,  otherwise 
Nugent,  one  of  the  daughters  of  Bichard,  late  Earl  of  West- 
meath,  claimed  a  jointure  of  £180  off  the  Meath  estates  of 
Henry  Dowdall — dismist.  Joseph  DowdaU  sought  and  was 
allowed  an  estate  tail  in  Westmeath  lands  forfeited  by 
Matthew  Dowdall ;  and  Redmond  Dowdall,  and  Mary  his 
wife,  cUimed  an  estate  tail  in  County  of  Limerick  lands 
forfeited  by  Tobias  and  John  Dowdall,  as  did  said  Mary  her 
dower  off  these  estates  as  the  widow  of  Tobias  and  under  his 

will  of  25th  August,  1688. The  estates  of  Sir  Lucas  were 

subsequently  sold  in  lots  to  John  Preston  of  Ardsallagh, 
Robert  Bochfort,  her  Majesty's  Attomey-Greneral,  Michael 
Shields  of  Wainstown,  John  Drury  of  Dublin,  and  Richard 
Gorges,  Esq.,  the  patentee  of  Kilbrue. 

Li  the  engagement  at  Lau^eld  village  in  1747  Lieutenant 
Dowdall,  then  ranking  in  Berwick's  Brigade,  whs  wounded. 


CAPTAIN  SIR  GREGORY  BYRNE. 

The  O'Bymes  were  the  formidable  Chieftains  of  that  last 
subjugated  district  of  Ireland,  now  the  County  of  Wicklow ; 


TH£  king's  BEGIHENT  OF  INFANTBT.        28 

the  preeeat  Barony  of  BaUinacor  and  the  fiainilogh  were 
poseeaeed  exdusively  by  them,  and  they,  with  the  OToolea, 
the  temtoiial  Lords  of  the  remainder  of  this  County,  main- 
tained for  nearly  fonr  centuries  an  unceasing  war  against 
Dublin  and  the  English  P^li^  So  early  after  the  introduction 
of  surnames  as  1119  the  Four  Masters  record  the  death  of 
Aodh  O'Brin  (BymeX  Lord  of  East  Leinster,  and  when 
afterwards  Dermot  McMurrough  incited  the  English  inya- 
flion,  the  O'Byme,  who  was,  in  the  adjustment  of  Lish 
goyemment,  his  tributary,  although  Dermot  confided  in  him 
as  his  last  hope,  renounced  his  allegiance,  and  unhesitatingly 
opposed  the  invaders;  when,  being  brought  before  '  Strong- 
bow,*  he  was  condemned  to  death.  Jn  1176  Malachy 
OByme  died  Bishop  of  Kildare.  Murrough  '  Mac  Bym ' 
of  Bainilough,  and  Connor  '  O'Brin '  were  of  the  Lish  Chiefs, 
to  whom  Henry  the  Third  directed  a  special  requisition  for 
repairing  to  his  standard,  and  assisting  him  with  their  forces 
against  the  Ejng  of  Scotland.*  In  1398  Boger  Mortimer, 
Earl  of  March  and  Ulster,  and  Lord  of  Dunamase,  was 
kiUed  when  endeayouring  to  reduce  this  mountain  Sept; 
a  catastrophe  which  induced  the  second  visit  of  the  unfortu- 
nate Kchard  the  Second  to  Lreland,  when  the  O'Byme  was 
fiun  to  yield  him  homage,  t  Li  1442  *  the  English  of  Dublin 
and  Meath  made  an  incursion  into  O'Bymes'  country,  where 
they  committed  great  depredations;  but  were  overtaken  by 
the  O'Tooles  and  O'Bymes,  who  defeated  them,  slaying  four 
score  and  taking  immense  spoils.' 

Ln  1535  Lord  Leonard  Grey  received  intimation  that  one 
of  the  Fitageralds,  uniting   with   Lord  Battinglas  and  a 


*  Timer's  Foedera.  t  DaviiU  HitL  ReL,  p,  S2. 


24  KING  JAMBS'S  UUSH  ABMT  LIST. 

Clueftain  of  the  O'Symes,  had  taken  their  station  in  the 
Tallejs  of  Glendalough,  that  their  numbers  were  daily 
increasing,  and  ^  their  exoursions  were  pestilent  and  auda- 
cious.'  In  two  years  after,  however,  the  O'Byme  made  his 
submission  to  that  Deputy.  In  the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth 
the  celebrated  Feagh  Mac  Hugh  was  the  Captain  of  the 
0*Bymes ;  he  it  was  whom  Spencer  commemorates,  ^^  so  fiur 
embold^ied  as  to  threaten  peril  even  to  Dublin,  over  whose 
neck  he  continually  hung."  His  capture  and  escape  are 
graphically  narrated  by  the  Four  Masters. 

Two  cruel  Inquisitions  were  held  at  Newcastle,  in  the 
County  of  Dublin  in  1604,  by  operation  of  which  the  estates 
of  upwards  of  eighty  of  the  O'Bjnmes  of  Wicklow  were 
declared  forfeited  to  the  Crown ;  many  of  them,  as  appears  by 
the  finding,  having  been  kiUed  or  taken  prisoners  and  hanged 
by  martial  law  during  the  rebellion,  which  broke  out  2nd  of 
September,  36th  Elizabeth.  In  two  years  after,  eighty-five 
others  of  this  devoted  m>imtain  Septet  it  necessary  in 
prudence  to  pay  fines  and^^^duffgeTror  patents  of  pardon. 
Another  Inqmsition,  taken  early  in  the  reign  of  James  the 
First,  thus  alludes  to  the  moving  cause  of  these  and  ensuing 
fearful  confiscations.  Henry  the  Second  (it  recites)  had,  in 
right  of  his  crown^  been  seised  in  fee  of  all  the  territory  of 
Cosha  in  the  County  of  Wicklow ;  when  many  mere  Irish 
had,  from  time  to  time,  entered  thereupon,  but  never  obtained 
dominion  in  that  country;  and  in  particular  John,  son  of 
Redmond  Byrne,  a  mere  Irishman,  had,  in  the  time  of  Henry 
the  Eighth,  entered  thereupon,  and  died  seised  thereof,  upon 
which  Hugh  his  son  entered  and  died  seised;  when  Feagh- 
Mac-Hugh,  his  son,  of  Ballinveer,  entered,  and,  having  rebelled 
against  Queen  Elizabeth,  was  slain  by  the  Queen's  army; 
whereupon  Felim,  his  son,  entered,  and  was  seised  at  the  lime 


THE  king's  BEGIHElJrr  OF  INFANTRY.  25 

of  that  inquisition  of  James,  bat  without  haying  obtained  any 
grant  or  ooncession  thereof.  In  1605,  he  was  fain  to  take  out 
a  patent  for  his  ancient  inheritance,  to  hold  to  himself  in  capite^ 
with  remainders  to  his  sons,  Brian,  Hugh,  Gerald,  James, 
Turlougfa,  Feagh,  and  Cahir,  and  their  respective  heirs  male ; 
with,  on  their  default,  remainder  to  his  own  heirs  male; 
remainder  to  Bedmond  his  brother,  remainder  to  Ownej  and 
Feagh,  son  of  Cahir  Byrne,  his  imdes ;  remainder  to  his  uncle 
Donell,  and  the  respective  heirs  male  of  each  in  succession. 
Redmond,  the  aforesaid  brother  of  Felim,  took  out  a  patent, 
in  1606,  for  other  lands,  stated  to  have  been  theretofore  *•  the 
estate  of  his  &ther  slain  in  rebellion,'  and  which  were  granted 
to  him  to  hold  for  ever,  '  in  consideration  of  his  good  services 
to  Queen  Elizabeth.'  In  1611,  the  Eling's  letter  issued  to 
receive  surrenders  from  the  gentlemen  and  freeholders  of  the 
Byrnes'  country,  of  thdr  respective  estates,  with  the  object 
of  thdr  receiving  new  grants  thereof  at  English  rents  and 
services. 

The  attainders  of  1642  fell  upon  one  hundred  and  fiftynsix 
O'Bymes  within  their  old  territory,  including  five  of  the  sons 
of  Felim,  to  whom  remainders  in  his  patentee  estates  were  so 
limited,  viz.:  Hugh,  G^ndd,  James,  Turlough,  and  Cahir; 
with  three  others  of  his  sons,  not  named  in  the  patent,  viz. : 
Art,  Dennot,  and  Bedmond;  while,  beyond  thdr  aboriginal 
country,  were  attainted  four  in  Dublin,  three  in  the  County 
of  Kildaret  and  one  in  Carlow.  The  Kilkenny  Assembly  of 
Confederate  Catholics  was  attended  by  Hugh  ^  Brin'  of 
Corinnon,  Bryan  *  Bume'  of  Ballinacor,  Bryan  of  Bodine, 
James  of  Ballyaude,  and  John  of  Ballyglann.  Cromwell's 
Denunciation  Act  of  1652  excepts  two  of  these  Confederates, 
there  described  as  Hugh  Mac  Phelim  and  Bryan  Mac  Phelim 
Byrne,  both  of  the  County  of  Widdow,  from  pardon  for  life 


26  KING  James's  ibish  arbit  ust. 

and  estate.  In  the  Beoord  Tower  of  Dublin  Castle  is  a 
petition  of  PheUm  Byrne,  soon  after  the  Bestoration,  to 
recover  his  ancient  inheritance  in  Wicklow;  but  it  does  not 
seem  to  have  been  effectiye. 

The  above  Captain  Sir  Gregory  Byrne  was  resident  at 
Tymogue,  in  'the  Queen's  County;  in  1669,  he  married 
Margaret  Copley,  sister  and  co-hdress  of  Sir  Christopher 
Copley,  and  grand-daughter  of  the  first  Viscount  Banelagh; 
in  two  years  after  he  was  created  a  Baronet,  and  in  1685  his 
Lady  died,  leaving  issue  by  him  an  only  son  Daniel.  Sir 
Gregory  was  attainted  in  1691 ;  nevertheless,  at  the  Court  of 
Chichester  House  he  claimed  estates  in  fee  in  divets  lands  in 
the  Queen's  County,  and  in  plots  and  houses  in  Dublin;  but 
the  daim  was  dismist  as  cautionary;  while  some  other 
interests  in  the  City  and  County  of  Dublin  were  allowed  to 
him.  He  married  to  his  second  wife  Alice  Fleming,  only 
daughter  of  Sandal  Lord  Slane^  by  the  Lady  Penelope  Moore^ 
daughter  of  Henry,  Earl  of  Drogheda;  (tiie  gnrnd-daughter 
of  this  union,  having  married  into  the  family  of  Bryan  of 
Jenkinstown,  her  son  sought  to  establish  title  to  the  dormant 
title  of  Slane  as  heir  general  of  Christopher  Lord  Shme,  and 
on  the  extinction  of  all  intennediate  issue).—- — Besides  this 
Captain,  there  are  on  the  {vesent  '  List'  Gttrret  and  John 
Byrne,  Captains  in  the  Earl  of  Westmeath's  In&ntry.  The 
former  was  afterwards  adjudged  within  tiie  Articles  of 
Limerick;  another  of  this  sept  was  Quaxter-Master  in  Sir 
Neill  O'Ndll's  Dragoons.  Li  the  Parliament  of  Dublin, 
Hugh  Byrne  sat  as  one  of  the  B^resentatives  of  the  Borough 
of  Carysfcnrt,  and  Thomas  Byrne  as  one  of  Wicklow.  Sir 
Gregory  was  outlawed  on  four  Liquisitions  in  Dublin,  Meath, 
and  the  Queen's  County;  while  the  scattered  quantity  of 
these  political  attainders  in  1698,  in  relation  to  the  OBymeB, 


THS  kino's  B£0nCENT  OF  INFAKTBT.  27 

powerfully  evinces  the  disperdon  from  thw  native  mountain 
^istnesses,  to  which  this  devoted  race  were  within  a  few  years 
after  its  reduotiim  subjected.  Nineteen  of  these  Inquisitions 
were  held  in  the  County  of  Wicklow,  dlght  in  Carlow,  seven 
in  Westmeath,  three  in  Meath,  Dublin,  and  Wexford  xespeo- 
tively,  two  in  the  Queen's  County,  and  one  in  Louth;  while 
even  in  such  remote  settlements  as  Derry  and  Gralway,  two 
occur  in  the  former  and  one  in  the  latter.  At  the  Court  of 
Claims,  besides  those  so  made  by  Sir  Gr^ory  Byrne,  Gairet 
Byrne  claimed  the  tithes  of  Bectories  in  Wicklow  forfeited  by 
Hugh  Byrne — dismist  for  non-prosecution.  Off  the  forfeitures 
of  Walter  Byrne  in  the  City  of  Dublin,  his  widow  claimed 
and  was  allowed  an  estate  for  life  under  settlement  of  1682 ; 
aod  Edmund  Byrne  claimed  and  was  allowed  the  fee  of  some 
estates  of  Thady  Byrne  in  the  Barony  of  Arklow,  County  of 
Wicklow. 

In  1707  Dr.  Edmund  Byrne  was  the  Boman  Catholic 
Archbishop  of  Dublin,  and  a  proclamation  issued  in  1718 
for  his  api«diension,  as  well  as  of  others  ^^  who  attempted 
to  exercise  ecclesiastical  jurisdiction  contrary  to  the  kws 
of  the  kingdom."  * 


CAPTAIN  BARTHOLOMEW  BUSSELL. 

This  name  b  of  Irish  record  from  the  earliest  period  after 
the  Invasion,  while  the  Four  Masters  rehte  the  death  of 
Actin  Bussell  in  a  battie  between  the  Burkes  and  O'Conors 

in  1263.     In  1309  Beginald  Bussd  was  summoned  to  a 

■  "''■'■  I  11 1    III  —■  ■      I       I         ■  ■.    II      I  ,  1 1  ■ 

*  HardimaKCs  Gaboojf^  pp.  275-7. 


28  KINO  JAMES'S  IBISH  ABMT  LIST. 

Grand  Council,  and,  in  the  following  year,  Robert  Bnssel  of 
Boss  had  license  to  acquire  the  fee  of  certain  premises  within 
the  manor  of  Old  Boss,  which  had  been  the  estate  of  Boger 
le  Bygod,  formerly  Earl  of  Norfolk,  and  Marshal  of  England. 
In  1317  the  above  Beginald  had,  with  his  wife  Margaret,  the 
grant  of  an  interest  in  the  serjeantcy  of  Olethan  and  Imokellj, 
to  hold  in  the  form  theretofore  granted,  by  Edward  the  First 
to  Thomas  Fitz-Manrice  and  said  Margaret.  Their  son, 
Dayid  Bussell,  sued  out  livery  of  his  estates  in  1355.  Wil- 
liam Bussell  was  one  of  the  influential  gentry  of  the  County 
of  Waterford,  who,  according  to  the  law  and  usage  of  the 
period,  elected  its  Sheriff.  Walter  Bussell  was  at  this  time 
Constable  of  the  important  Castle  of  Tallagh  on  the  marches 
of  the  Pale.  In  1384  Bichard  BusseU  was  a  Justice  in  eyre^ 
and  he,  for  his  services,  obtained  a  license  to  marry  Margaret 
the  widow  of  Milo  Maundeville,  a  native  Irishwoman. 

In  1594  Sir  William  Bussell  was  appointed  Lord  Justice 
of  Ireland,  when  his  earliest  movement  was  directed  against 
the  O'Bymes,  at  their  stronghold  of  Ballinacor.  In  two 
years  after  died  Greorge  Bussell  of  Sheephouse,  in  Meath, 
Nicholas  his  son  and  heir  being  then  of  full  age  and  married. 
Patrick  was  the  son  and  heir  of  this  Nicholas.  About  the 
year  1605  died  James  Bussell  of  Quoniamstown,  George  his 
son  and  heir  being  then  of  ftdl  age,  but  unmarried.  This 
George  died  in  1645.  In  1619  died  Christopher  Bussell 
of  BallygaUaghan,  in  the  County  Down,  Bichard  his  son  and 
h^  being  then  of  full  age  and  married.  The  Attainders  of 
1642  comprise  the  names  of  Thomas  Bussell  {nuigh)  of  Bush, 
Christopher  Bussell  of  Seatown,  Andrew  Bussell  of  Swords, 
Patrick  of  Brownstown,  Nicholas  of  CoUinstown,  Thomas  of 
Drynam,  and  Frauds  of  Eilrush,  all  in  the  County  of  Dublin ; 
with  Patrick  Bussell  of  Bodanstown,  County  of  Meath.     In 


THE  KIKG^S  BEOIMBNT  OF  INFANTRY.    «  29 

1646  Geoige  Ruasell  of  Bathmolin  n^as  one  of  the  Confederate 
Catholics  assembled  at  Kilkenny,  and  in  1667  William 
Russell  had  a  confirmatory  grant  of  154  acres  in  Wexford. 

A  short  time  before  the  accession  of  King  James  the 
Second,  Dr.  Patrick  Bossell  (of  the  &mily  that,  as  shown 
by  the  above  attainders,  was  congregated  about  the  ancient 
town  of  Swords,)  was  appointed  the  Catholic  Archbishop  of 
Dublin,  in  which  dignity  he  continued  during  that  monarch's 
rrign.  In  1685  he  held  the  first  Provindal  Council  at 
Dublin  that  had  been  known  for  many  years;  and  Lord 
Clarendon,  then  Viceroy,  writing  at  that  time  to  the  Earl 
of  Rochester  one  of  his  state  letters,  says  of  this  prelate, 
*^He  has  been  with  me,  seems  to  be  a  good  man,  but  no 
politician;  he  is  a  secular.'**  In  the  peaceftd  course  of  his 
life  he  continued,  by  synods  and  councils  and  viedtations,  to 
incdoate  hmnmty  and  attention  in  hifl  dergy,  and  virtue  and 
loyalty  in  their  flocks."  t  During  the  Bang's  residence  in 
Dublin,  he  performed  the  service  and  rites  of  his  church 
constantiy  in  the  Royal  presence ;  the  last  permitted  occasion 
of  these  solemnities  haying  been  for  the  consecration  of  a 
Benedictine  nunnery  in  Dublin.  On  the  downfidl  of  the 
Stuart  dynasty,  he  fled  to  Paris,  whence  however  he  returned 
to  close  his  life  in  the  land  of  his  birth  and  ministry.  At  the 
termination  of  the  year  1692  he  died,  and  was  buried  in  the 
venerable  church  of  Lusk,  near  Swords.  While  he  was 
Primate,  his  prindpal  residence  was  in  the  old  chapel-house 
at  Frands-street,  by  the  Fraternity  of  which  establishment  an 
andent  censer  is  preserved  exhibiting  the  inscription,  "  Orate 
pro  Patricio  Russell^  Arehiepiscopo  Dvblinia^  Primate  Htber* 

—  ■-■-■  -    - 

*  Smgei^B  Correspondence^  y.  1,  p.  387. 
t  ly Alton's  Ard^hopi  ofDubUn^  p.  464. 


30  KING  jameb's  ibish  abmt  list. 

nicg  4t  pro  qus  fratre  Jaeobo  Rtuaellj  Deeano  Duhlinim  et 
Prothonotario  Apostolieo^  qui  me  fieri  fecit.^  *  During  King 
Jameses  reign  he  enjoyed  a  pension  of  £200  per  annum 
charged  on  the  Irish  Exchequer. 

The  above  Captain  Bartholomew  Bussell  was  the  proprietor 
of  Seatown,  County  of  Dublin,  by  which  description  he  was 
attainted  in  1691;  while  there  appear  on  this  Army  List 
Grarret  and  Thomas  Bussell,  Ensigns  in  the  Earl  of  Tyrone's 
In&ntry  (the  latter  described  on  his  attainder  as  of  Ballymac- 
scanlon.  County  of  Louth),  Valentine  Bussell  a  Captain  in 
Lord  Bellew's,  and  Christopher  Bussell  (described  also  as  of 
Seatown)  a  Capttdn.in  Colonel  Cormuck  O'Neill's  Infimtry. 
The  Attainders  of  1691,  besides  the  above  officers,  include 
the  names  of  Valentine  Bussell  of  Quoniamstown,  who  had 
been  Sheriff  of  Down  in  1687 ;  Charles  of  Lumfin  in  said 
County ;  James  of  Busselstown,  County  of  Westmeath ; 
Bobert  of  Drynam  (who  had  been  one  of  the  Bepresentatives 
of  Swords  in  the  Parliament  of  1689),  William  Bussell  of 
Ballymacscanlon,  and  Andrew  of  Ardee,  in  Louth ;  James  of 
Glendarson,  Patrick  of  Walshestown,  and  David  of  Clonfiriest 
in  Cork,  and  Vincent  of  Aglis  in  Waterford.  Captain  Bar- 
tholomew forfeited  much  about  Swords  and  in  the  Barony  of 
Nethercross.  Thomas's  confiscations  were  of  portions  of  the 
Bectorial  tithes  of  Julianstown,  Platten,  and  Dunany.  Val- 
enline's  comprised  extensive  estates  in  the  County  of  Down, 
in  which  his  son  Patrick  Bussell,  then  a  minor,  claimed  an 
estate  tail  as  did  his  mother  Mary  Bussell,  alias  Hanlon,  by 
Hugh  ELanlon  her  Trustee,  a  rent  charge  in  Ueu  of  dower 
under  marriage  articles  of  February,  1683.  Their  petitions, 
do  not,  however,  appear  to  have  been  allowed ;  while  Anne, 

*  iyAUorC$  Archbiihops  ofDMm^  p.  466. 


THB  king's  regiment  OF  INFJLNTBY.  81 

widow  of  Sir  Bobert  Hamilton,  Sjiigkt,  and  othen,  as  ezecu* 
tors  of  James  Hamilton,  deceased,  claimed  and  were  allowed 
a  judgment  debt,  charged  on  said  Valentine's  estates;  a 
portion  of  wiuch,  including  Quoniamstown,  was  sold  by  the 
Commissioners  of  the  Forfeitures  in  1703  to  Robert  Ecfalin 
of  Rush,  Esq.  Bridget,  the  only  child  and  heiress  of  Bobert 
Bussell  of  Drynam,  married  Andrew  Cruise  of  the  Naul 
fiunily.  See  post^  at  Captain  Francis  Cruise,  in  the  Earl  of 
Tyrone's  Infimtry. 


CAPTAIN  THOMAS  HACKETT. 

This  name  ^  Hecket'  occurs  on  the  Boll  of  Battle  Abbey,  as 
of  one  of  the  Knights  who  attended  the  Conqueror  fix>m 
Normandy.  His  race  early  extended  over  Worcestershire 
and  Yorkshire.  One  of  his  descendants,  Paganus  Hacket, 
came  oyer  to  Ireland  with  the  English  Invasion.  He  wit- 
nessed an  endowment  from  Hugh  Tyrrell  to  the  priory  of 
Kilmainham  about  1180,  and  acquired  a  grant  of  lands  in  the 
district  of  Wicklow  still  known  by  the  name  of  Hacketstown,* 
which  remained  in  his  line  until  their  adhesion  to  the  Earl  of 
Desmond  caused  its  confiscation  in  the  time  of  Queen  Elizar 
both.  In  1200,  Bowland  Hacket  was  seised  of  lands  near 
Ejnsaly,  County  of  Dublin  ;t  and  in  1250,  William  Hacket 

founded  the  Franciscan  Friary,  in  Cashel. In  1302  John, 

Henry,  and  Bobert  ^  Hacket'  were  of  the  ^  Fideles'  of  Ireland, 
whose  services  were  sought  by  special  Boyal  mandate  for  the 

*  LifndCs  Feudal  DigniiieM,  ip.  255.  f  ArchdaWs  Monasdoon,  p.  152. 


32  KING  JAHBS'S  IRISH  ABBIT  LIST. 

Mrar  in  Scotland.*  About  the  same  time,  Robert  and  Walter 
Haket  received  similar  recognitions  of  the  King*s  confidence,! 
the  latter  being  entrusted  Ti^th  the  custody  of  Newcastle  Mac 
Kinegan  near  Delgany,  while  Henry  was  Sheriff  of  the 
County  of  Tipperary.  In  1356  Andrew  Hakett,  styled  Lord 
Andrew  Hakett,  was  Sheriff  and  Escheator  of  the  County  of 
CroBS-Tipperary,  and  in  1375  Edmund  Haket  was  Sheriff  of 
the  County  of  Waterford.  At  the  battle  of  Agincourt, 
Richard  Hakett  was  one  of  the  Ejiights  in  the  Duke  of 
Gloucester's  retinue,  as  was  another  Richard  in  Sir  Henry 
Hussey's,  and  a  Walter  Haket  in  Sir  William  Bourchier's4 
In  1460  Dayid  Haket  was  Bishop  of  Ossory;  and  in  1484 
Peter  Haket  was  Archbbhop  of  Cashel.  In  the  sixteenth 
century,  and  it  would  seem  anterior  to  it,  a  branch  of  this 
fSEunUy  was  established  in  the  County  of  Gralway,  and  erected 
a  castle  on  a  townland  of  that  district  which  still  bears  the 
name  of  Castle-Hacket.  By  Inquisition  of  1584,  it  was  found 
that  Ulick  Mac  Redmond  Mac  Meyler  died  in  1571,  seised  of 
the  castles  of  Castle-Hacket  and  Cahir-Morris ;  but  that  Mac 
Hacket,  the  chief  of  his  name,  and  others  of  the  Sept  of  the 
Hackets,  claimed  the  aforesaid  castle  of  Castle-Hacket,  with 
the  two  quarters  of  land  adjoining  § 

The  Attunders  of  1642  comprise  but  one  individual  in  the 
old  Coimty,  described  as  George  Hackett  of  Ballinahensy, 
County  of  Wicklow;  about  which  time  Thomas  Hackett 
was  transplanted  to  Connaught,  and  others  of  the  name 
settled  in  the  County  of  Mayo,  where  they  seem  now  extinct. 
In  1670  died  John  Hackett,  Bishop  of  Lichfield  and  Coventry, 
whom  his  epitaph  in  Lichfield  Cathedral  commemorates  as  a 

*  ParUamaUary  Writs,  f  ^^  vi  Irish  Chancery, 

X  NiooUttU  AgmoourL  §  Hatdiman^s  CkikDay^  p.  21. 


THE  king's  bjbgihekt  of  infantby.  33^ 

strenuous  opponent  of  the  Jesuits,  against  whom  he  is  said 
to  have  written  a  Latin  comedy  (entitled  Loyola^  firom  the 
name  of  the  foimderof  their  order)  which  was  twice  acted 
before  King  James  the  First,  and  printed  in  London  in  1648. 
It  is  related  that  this  piece  was  composed  during  a  summer 
at  Newstead  Ahbey^  whither  the  doctor  had  retired  with  his 
pupil,  afterwards  created  Lord  Byron,  ancestor  of  the  poet* 
In  1672  Thomas  Hacket  succeeded  to  the  Sees  of  Down  and 
Connor.  In  1678  Thomas  Hacket,  described  as  of  Dublin, 
merchant,  an  especial  friend  of  the  Duke  of  Tyrconnel,  had  a 
grant  of  upwards  of  1,000  statutable  acres  in  the  Barony  of 
Clare,  County  of  Gralway,  with  certain  savings.  He  was 
afterwards  knighted,  and  was  Lord  Mayor  of  Dublin  in  1687. 
In  the  Parliament  of  1689,  the  aforesaid  Thomas  Hackett, 
the  Bishop  of  Down  and  Connor,  was  one  of  the  spiritual 
Peers;  while  in  the  Commons,  Sir  Thomas  Hacket  repre- 
sented Portarlington,  as  did  Alderman  James  the  City  of 
CasheL  Another  Hackett  (James)  appears  on  this  Army 
List  a  Lieutenant  in  Colonel  Thomas  Butler^s  Infimtry;  as 

does Hacket,  a  Captain  in  Lord  Gormanston's.    When 

King  James,  after  the  Bojme,  fled  from  Dublin  through  the 
hills  of  Wicklow,  he  stopped  for  a  few  hours  with  some 
followers  at  the  house  of  a  Mr.  Hackett  near  Arklow,  whence 
he  proceeded  to  Duncanno9,  arriving  there  about  sunrise; 
and  according  to  Archbishop  King,  a  Captain  Robert  Hacket 
was  one  of  those  who  followed  the  fbrtimes  of  James  to 
France. 

In  1691  was  attainted  Thomas  Hackett,  described  as  of 
Cloncullen,  with  Thomas  Hackett,  junior,  of  Dublin,  James 
of  Cashel,  John  of  Ballymacmaigh,  Francis  of  Gaily  in  Bos- 
common,  and  James  of  Priestown  in  Meath.  The  last  was 
also  seised  of  estates  in  the  County  of  Dublin,  and  of  Fyan's 

VOL.  u.  D 


34  KINO  JAMSS*S  IBJSH  ABMT  LIST. 

castle  in  the  City.  Lieasehold  interests  in  his  Meath  lands 
were  claimed  and  allowed  to  another  James  Hackett,  and  sub- 
ject thereto,  they  were  sold  to  John  Carter  of  HoUybrook, 
in  the  County  of  Dublin;  while  his  Dublin  property  was 
sold  to  Robert  Echlin  of  Bush  and  the  Hollow  Swords 
Blades'  Company,  and  *  Fyan's  old  house '  to  John  Bonninge. 
It  does  not  appear  how  far  the  estates  of  Captain  Thomas 
Hackett  were  affected  by  attainder,  but  by  a  Private  Act  of 
the  Irish  Parliament  in  1706,  explained  by  another  of  1708, 
those  of  Sir  Thomas  Hacket  were  vested  in  Trustees  for  the 
payment  of  his  debts. 


CAPTAIN  THOMAS  WABBEN. 

This  'name  is'  of  record  in  Ireland  early  in  the  rdgn  of 
Edward  ike  Second,  from  which  time  it  extended  its  branches 
over  all  the  Counties  of  the  Pale.  In  1609  Andrew,  son  and 
heir  of  Jolm  '  Warrine'  of  Churchtown,  in  Meath,  had  livery 
of  his  estates,  and  he  died  in  1638,  leaving  John,  his  son  and 
heir,  then  aged  35,  and  married.  The  Attainders  of  1642 
present  the  names  of  six  Warrens,  viz. :  Edward  of  Swords, 
Alexander  of  Ballybine,  John  of  Castieknock,  and  7%oma«, 
described  as  of  Sillogue,  all  in  the  County  of  Dublin ;  with 
John  and  Patrick  Warren  of  Churchtown  aforesaid.  A  very 
interesting  account  of  tixe  descendants  of  the  above  Edward 
of  Swords  has  been  transmitted  in  aid  of  this  work.  First 
deducing  his  ovm  lineage  from  William,  the  first  of  the  name 
who  came  into  England  with  the  Conqueror,  and  whose  son, 
another  William,  died  in  the  Holy  Land  in  1 148.    Edward, 


THB  KFN^'a  BEQIHSKT  OF  IHFANTST.        35 

the  gnmdvpn  of  the  latter,  pegged  over  to  Ireland  in  Strong- 
bow^s  time.  His  great-great-grandson,  Bichard  Warren, 
aoqinred  the  nuuior  of  Swo^da,  in  addition  to  Courtduff,  in 
the  County  of  Dublin;  and  the^e  estates  the  above  Edward 
of  Swoids  inherited  in  the  sixth  generation.  His  son  and 
namesake,  Edward  Warren,  was  bom  in  1666,  served  in  the 
Stuart  cause  in  Ireland,  had  th^  command  of  the  citadel  of 
Bel&st,  but,  having  been  taken  prisoner  at  the  battle  of  Cavan, 
he  was  sent  to  the  Tower  of  London,  whence  he  was  exchanged 
in  1690,  by  the  influence  of  a  young  lady,  Miss  Anne  Spaight, 
who  had  seen  him  in  his  captivity,  and  whom  he  married  on 
his  release.  In  the  strength  of  his  loyalty,  however,  he, 
returning  to  Ireland,  again  joined  King  Jameses  adherents, 
was  at  the  Bpyi^e,  and  came  to  France  in  1692,  after  the 
capitulation  of  Limerick.  In  1698,  on  the  invitation  of  his 
friend  Lord  CarUngford,  he  established  himself  at  Nancy,  the 
capital  of  ]Li(»ra4ne,  bringing  over  his  wife,  whom  he  had 
previously  left  in  Jiondon.  He  was  naturalized  in  1701,  by 
letteni  patent  of  the  Duke  of  Lorraine,  who  appointed  him 
Ck>mmander  of  the  Artillery  and  Fortifications  there,  and  he 
dying  in  1733,  his  son  and  namesake,  Edward  Warren, 
succeeded  to  his  post;  but  Lorraine  having  been  exchaiiged 
against  Tuscany,  pn  the  marriage  of  Francis  the  First  of 
Lorraine  with  Maria  Theresa,  Empress  of  Germany,  this 
Warren  followed  his  fortunes  and  obtained  a  similar  prefer- 
ment in  Tuscany.  He  died  at  Florence  in  1739,  leaving 
four  sons,  three  pf  whom  died  withoijit  issup  in  the  Austrian 
service;  the  fourth,  Ileiuy-Hyacinth,  bpm  in  1732,  became 
a  Major  \n  the  Tuscan  a^ny,  and  died  in  ].781,  leaving  two 
sons — 1,  Patrick-Leopold-Ledud,  bom  in  1767,  died  at 
Jamaica  in  1796  s.p. ;  3,  John  Batiste-Joseph,  b.  1769,  was 
a  Captain  in  Dillon'b  I^h  Brigade  until  its  di49olution,  when 


36  KINO  JAMES'S  IRISH  ABMT  LIST. 

he  took  the  same  rank  of  Captain  succeasiyely  in  the  33rd 
and  56th  Regiments  of  British  In&ntry.  He  married  Anne- 
Laurence  MareiUj  at  Pondicheny,  by  whom  he  had  two 
sons  and  two  daughters.  The  eldest  son,  Edmund,  married 
and  is  residing  at  Nanc  j,  in  Lorraine ;  the  second  son,  Henry- 
Hyacinth,  b.  1818,  died  in  1851  «./>. 

Of  the  Confederate  Catholics  at  Kilkenny  in  1646,  were 
Alexander  Warren,  then  styled  of  Churchtown;  Edward 
Warren,  *  late  of  Dublin,'  and  William  Warren  of  Casheltown. 
About  the  year  1667  William  and  John  Warren  of  Corduff 
joined  in  conveying  a  parcel  of  Castleknock  (of  which  William 
had  obtained  a  confirmatory  grant  in  the  previous  year)  to 
the  Crown,  for  the  purpose  of  enlarging  the  Phoenix  Park. 
This  William  Warren,  as  appears  by  Inquisition  of  1687, 
was  seised  of  upwards  of  283  a6res  in  Upper  Castleknock,  51 
in  Carpenterstown,  and  58  in  Lacken,  which  he  had  settled 
in  tail-mail  on  his  nephew,  the  above  Captain  Thomas,  by 
deed  of  22nd  March,  1669.  In  1666  William  *  Waring' 
passed  patent  for  2,555  acres  in  Down,  as  did  Richard 
Waring  in  the  following  year  for  1,532  in  Waterford ; 
Edward,  soil  and  heir  of  Major  Abel  Warren  for  380  in 
Kilkenny ;  John  Warren  for  6,196  acres  in  Wexford ; 
William  Warren  and  Anne  his  wife  for  858  in  the  last 
county,  and  Comet  Thomas  Warren  for  408  in  Meath. 

It  is  of  legal  record  that  Lord  Dongan,  whom  James  the 
Second  afterwards  created  Earl  of  Limerick,  leased  in  1688 
lands  in  the  County  of  Kildare  to  a  Maurice  Warren  for  his 
life,  and  the  lives  of  his  nephews  Edward  and  William 
Warren,  with  covenant  for  perpetual  renewal.  William  died 
in  the  camp  of  Dimdalk,  while  the  lessor  was  in  the 
Irish  Army,  and  Maurice,  himself  (the  lessee)  died  in 
1691,  when  Gilbert,  the  eldest  son  of  Maurice,  entered  on 


THE  king's  BE6IMBNT  OF  IHFAimtT.  37 

the  lands,  but  was  uiutble  to  obtain  a  reneyral,  by  reason  that 
the  Earl  of  Athlone,  the  patentee  of  the  estates  of  the 
attainted  Earl  of  limeriok,  was  absent  from  Ireland.  On 
the  establishment  of  1687-8,  a  Mrs.  Mary  Warren  appears 
for  a  pension  of  £8(X  Thomas  Warren  was  then  Sheriff  of 
Dublin,  as  he  was  again  in  the  year  of  King  James's  sojourn 
there.  He  was  attainted  in  1691,  by  the  description  of 
Thomas  Warren  of  Corduff,  County  of  Publin,  and  of 
Warrenstown,  County  of  Meath, 

Bendes  this  officer,  the  name  ranks  commissioned  on  the 
Infimtiy  Begiments  of  Sir  Maurice  Eustace,  Kchard  Nugent, 
liOrds  Bophin  and  Gormianston,  Sir  Midiael  Creagh,  and  in 
Colonel  Simon  Luttrell's  Dragoonsy^  One  of  those  here 
alluded  to,  Captain  John  of  Sir  Maurice  Eustace's  Infimtry, 
was  Sheriff  of  Dublin  in  1686 ;  in  1689  he  was  a  Deputy- 
lieutenant  of  the  Coimty^  and  in  the  Parliament  of  that  year 
represeMed  the  Borough  of  Carlow.  He  was  attainted  as  of 
^  Warrenstown,  County  of  Me^th,'  and  also  of  Carlow,  but 
his  forfeitures  lay  chiefly  ip  the  Queen's  County,  and  in  the 
County  and  Town  of  Carlowy"  At  the  Court  of  Claims 
Maurice  Warren  daimed  sodfe  judgment  debta  aa  affecting 
the  Carlow  estate  of  John,  some  of  which  were  allowed ;  while 
Henry  Warren  claimed  and  was  allowed  a  mortgage  in  fee 
on  said  property;  and  subject  to  these  charges  his  lands  were 
sold  in  1703  to  Colonel  Wentworth  Hardman,  and  to  Walter 
Weldon  of  !Bahin,  as  were  the  town  plots  to  Charles  Bpuleey. 
There  were  also  attainted  in  1692    Patrick,    Jam^,  and 

ichael  Warren,  described  as  of  Warrenstown  aforesaioV  and 
Richard  Warren  of  Carlow.  Monumental  records  of  this 
name  are  yet  above  ground,  fix>m  1679,  at  Mullaghidart;  and 
firom  1722,  in  the  Churchyard  of  St.  Margarets,  near  Finglas, 
County  Dublin. 


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38  KING  JAMES'S  IBIBH  ABl^  LI8T. 


CAPTAINS  WALTER  AND  GEORGE  NANGLB. 

''  Tms,"*  says  Sir  Bernard  Burke,  in  his  Landed  Gentry ^  ^^is 
one  of  the  most  ancient  Anglo-Nbrman  families  in  Iieland.** 
Amongst  the  Knights  who  accompanied  Richard  de  Clare» 
Eail  of  Pembroke  (Strongbow),  to  that  country  in  1169  were 
Gilbert  de  Angulo  and  his  two  sons,  Jocdyn  and  Hostilio. 
From  the  ktter  descends  the  fiimily  of  de  Costello  called  Mac 
Hostilio  or  Mac  Costello.  Gilbert  de  Angulo  obtained  the 
territory  of  Maherigallen  and  other  lands  in  Meath;  whilst  hi* 
eldest  son  Jocelyn  acquired  Navan  and  the  lands  of  Ardbraocan^ 
whence  ms  lineal  successors,  the  Nangles,  were  subs^u^itly 
styled  Barons  of  Naran.  About  the  year  1190  this  Joodiyn 
founded  an  Augustinian  Abbey  at  Navan. 

In  1803  Gilbert,  his  descendant,  was  summoned  to  join  the 
inyading  army  of  Scotland.  In  1325  Matthew,  son  of  Walter 
de  Angulo,  sued  out  a  customary  writ  of  pardon  and  protec- 
tion, as  did  William  and  Ralph  de  Naungle,  as  well  as 
Gilbert,  Edmund,  Raymond,  and  Richard  de  Naungle.  In 
1346  Walter  Naungle  was  appointed  one  of  the  Commisdoners 
of  Array  within  the  Liberty  of  Trim.  In  twenty-six  years 
after,  King  Edward  the  Third  directed  his  Escheator  to 
surrender  the  possession  of  the  estates  of  this  Walter,  which 
were  held  under  Edmund  de  Mortimer  Earl  <^  Mardb, 
and  which,  on  the  death  of  said  Walter  had  been  taken 
into  the  £jiig*s  hands,  by  reason  of  the  minority  of  his 
son  and  heir,  William  Naungle,  styled  Baron  of  Navan,  who 
also  died  in  1377,  leaving  his  heir  imder  age.  In  1382  Nigel 
Naungle  was  a  Commissioner  of  Array  in  Meath,  and  John 
Naungle  a  guardian  of  the  peace.     This  John  was  Baron  of 


THE  king's  BEGOCBNT  Of  IKFAKTBT.  39 

Navan,  and  was,  by  that  style,  one  of  the  sureties  to  the 
Crown  for  John  I^Arcy,  when  the  Castle  ibid  lordship  of 
Baihwyre,  and  other  estates  of  the  Earl  of  March,  then 
deceased,  were  cononitted  to  his  custody,  during  the  minority 
of  Boger  de  Mortimer,  son  and  heir  of  Edmund,  the  late  Earl. 
During  the  reign  of  Henry  the  Fourth  this  Baron  John  had 
various  liigh  and  confidential  appointments.  His  son  and 
har,  Walter  Naungle,  had  liyery  of  his  fathei^s  estates  in 
1408,  but,  dying  within  four  years  after,  he  left  Barnabas, 
his  son  and  heir,  a  minor.  In  1425  the  Chief  Serjeantcy  of 
the  Counfy  of  Kildare  was  granted  to  Philip  Naungle,  at 
which  time  a  branch  of  the  fiunily  was  established  in 
Idmerick.  John  Nangle,  Baron  of  Navan,  took  the  oath  of 
allegance,  in  1488,  before  Sir  Bicfaard  Edgecombe,  as  neces- 
atated  by  the  insurrection  in  favour  of  Lambert  Simnel. 
Subsequently,  Sir  Thomas  Nangle,  Baron  of  Navan  (the 
rixteenth  in  lineal  descent  from  Gilbert  de  Angulo)  married 
Elizabeth,  eldest  daughter  of  Jenico,  third  Viscount  Gor- 
manston,  by  Catherine,  eldest  daughter  of  Gerald,  ninth 
Earl  of  Kildare;  and  had  issue  by  her  eight  sons,  the 
youngest  of  whom,  Walter  Nangle  of  Kildalkey  in  the 
Coimty  of  Meath,  was  great-grand&ther  of  the  above  Captain 
Walter,  who  was  himself  &ther  of  Captain  George,  his  eldest 
son,  as  well  as  of  Edward  a  Lieutenant  herein,  and  of  Garret 
or  Gerald,  a  Lieutenant  in  Sir  Michael  Creagh's  Lifantry. 
Captain  Walter  had  been  Sheriff  of  Meath  in  1687,  was  one 
of  the  Bepresentatives  of  the  Borough  of  Trim  in  the  Par- 
liament of  1689,  and  died  in  1693. 

In  1605  and  1611  Bobert  Nangle  obtained  grants  or 
oonfirmations  from  King  James  of  the  Manor  and  Castle 
of  Ballysax,  with  divers  lands  and  tithes  in  the  Counties 
of  Kildare,  Tipperary,  Waterford,  and  Longford,   '  m  duo 


40  KIKG  JAMES'S  IBISH  ASMT  LIST. 

acknowledgment,'  as  was  redted  in  the  patent,  of  his  wounds 
and  losses  sustained  in  his  several  services  of  extraordinarj 
merit  to  the  Crown.  He  was,  however,  attainted  in  1642, 
together  with  Matthew  Nangle,  his  son ;  Boknd  of  Ardiass, 
Peter  of  Naas,  clerk ;  Thomas  Nangle,  otherwise  Baron  of 
Navan,  and  Jocelyn  Nangle  of  Kildalkey  (father  of  the  above 
Captain  Walter).  In  1646  Roger  Nangle,  styled  of  Glyn- 
more,  was  of  the  Confederate  Catholics  in  the  Supreme 
Council*  In  1667  Robert  Nangle,  an  infant  (son  and  heir 
of  Edmund  Nangle)  and  Mable  his  mother,  had  a  grant  of 

Barronstown,  Eolbixy,  &c.,  1,336  acres  in  Westmeath. 

On  this  Army  List,  besides  the  Nangles  in  this  Be^ment, 
Bobert  Nangle  is  mentioned  by  O'Callaghan  as  having  been 
a  Major  in  TyrconneFs  Begiment,  and  drowned  in  the  pursuit 
of  a  routed  Williamite  force  towards  Derry .  The  Inquisition 
of  Attainder  on  said  Bobert  Nangle  bears  date  in  September, 
1694,  and  finds  him  sdsed  of  various  estates  in  the  County 
of  Westmeath.  In  King  Jameses  New  Charters  John 
Nangle  was  appointed  Portrieve  in  that  to  Navan,  while 
Walter  was  one  of  its  Burgesses.  In  another  to  Trim, 
Walter,  George,  and  Edward  Nangle  were  Burgesses,  as  was 
Walter  in  a  third  to  Athboy. 

The  Attainders  of  1691  comprise  the  above  Walter  and 
George,  together  with  Edward  Nangle  of  Kildalkqr,  Francis 
of  Harberston,  John  of  Navan,  Gerald  of  Mayne,  Piers  of 
Kilmihill,  and  Bobert  Nangle,  all  of  the  County  of  West- 
meath. At  the  Court  of  Chichester  House,  Walter  Nangle 
claimed  and  was  allowed  an  estate  tail  in  Meath  lands  forfeited 
by  the  above  Captain  Walter,  as  did  Margery  Nangle  (jieS 
Dromgoole)  her  jointure  off  said  estate,  and  also  off  Walter's 
Westmeath  estates ;  while  Penelope  Nangle  claimed  a  jointurei 
and  her  son  Bobert  (a  min6r)  an  estate  tail  in  the  Westmeath 


THE  kind's  BSanCENT  OF  INFAlTrBT.  41 

knds  of  Bobert  Nangle.  A  great  portion  of  Captain  Walter 
NangloV  estate  in  Meaih  was  afterwards  sold  to  John  A^ill 
of  Dublin,  as  were  Robert  Nangle's  estates  in  Westmeath  to 
the  Hollow  Swords  Blades'  Company. 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  SEGRAVE. 

See  of  this  name  poat^  at  Captain  Fifancus  Segrave,  in  Sir 
Maurice  Eustace's  Infantry.  In  a  confirmatory  grant  of 
1668,  of  lands  and  prenuses  in  various  oounties  to  Charles 
Viscount  Fitz-Harding,  the  rights  of  John  Segraye  to  certain 
houses  and  plots  within  the  Manor  of  Bathmore  were  espe- 
cially saved,  and  he  may  possibly  be  the  above  Captain, 
afterwards  attainted  as  of  Cabra,  Coutity  of  Dublin,  and 
Burtonstown,  Coimty  of  Meath.  He  was,  however,  adjudged 
within  the  Articles  of  Limerick. 


m  ■» 


CAPTAIN  SIR  ANTHONY  MULLEDT. 

4 

The  O'Mulledy's  were  an  ancient  Sept  of  the  King's  County 
and  Westmeath,  located  near  Garry-Casde.  In  1447  Come* 
lius  O'Mulledy  succeeded  to  the  See  of  Clonfert,  whence  in 
the  following  year  he  was  translated  to  that  of  Emly.  The 
only  individual  of  the  name  attainted  in  1642  was  styled 
Patrick  O'Mulledy,  Baronet,  of  Ballinv^,  County  of  Meath. 
A  letter  is  extant  of  the  10th  of  August,  1690,  from  the 
Williamite  Colonel  Wolsdey  to  Secretary  Southwell,  '£nom 
the  camp  near  Mullingar;'  in  which  he  says^  '^We  had 


42  KINO  JAMESES  IBI8H  ABMT  UST. 

adyices  from  Colonel  Babington  that  2,000  of  the  enemy 
were  got  together  at  Tjrrelspass,  .  .  .  the;f  adyanoed 
with  about  120  Hdrse,  *  who'  onr  men  charged  and  broke ; 
.  .  .  the  night  came  npon  us  or  else  we  had  done  great 
execution;  as  it  was,  we  killed  between  80  and  100,  and  have 
taken  prisoners  three  of  the  greatest  rogues  amongst  them, 
Tiz.  Andrew  Tuite,  J&mes  Ledwich,  and  Sedmund  MuUedj, 
late  Sheriff  for  King  James.  They  are  no  soldiers  nor  have 
any  commission  for  what  they  do,  and  therefore  I  have  a  great 
mind  to  hang  them,  if  his  Majesty  will  either  gire  orders  for 
it  or  say  nothing  about  it,  but  leave  me  to  myself;  for  I  am 
well  assured  that  an  Irishman  is  to  be  taught  his  duty  only 
by  the  rod.  Tuite*s  &ther  holds  out  a  garrison  now  in  an 
island  within  two  miles  of  this  place.  I  concdve  the  whole 
number  of  this  party  were  about  1,000 ;  one  Nugtot,  the 
present  Sheriff  for  King  James,  headed  them.*'*  Dean  Story 
reports  the  transaction  as  that  ''one  Mulledy,  late  High 
Sheriff  of  Longford,  got  at  least  3,000  of  rabble  or  such  like 
near  Mullingar,  where  they  hectored  and  swaggered  for  some 
days,"  adding,  that  Colonel  ^Wolseley  feU  in  with  the  party 
and  killed  about  thirty  of  them,  ''  High  Sheriff  Mulledy  being 
wounded  and  never  since  able  to  raise  such  a  ^poase  eomitattu.' " 
Those  of  this  name  attainted  in  1691  were  the  above 
Anthony  Mulledy,  described  as  of  Bobertstown,  Knight; 
Bedmund  Mulledy  of  Grangemore,  and  Hugh  Mulledy  of 
Bathwyre,  in  the  County  of  Westmeath ;  John  Mulledy  of 
Dublin,  and  John  Mulledy  of  Ballintobber,  County  of  Mayo. 
One  of  these,  most  probably  the  hat,  was  an  Ensign  in  Claor* 
licarde's  In&ntry,  while  another  was  Captain  in  Colonel 
Richard  Nugent's.    The  estates  of  Bedmund  and  Hugh 

*  Clarke's  MSS.  Correspondence,  Trin.  Goll.  LiV.  Lett  LbudiL 


THB  KINa*0  BEOmZNT  OT  nTFAJNTBT.  48 

Mulledj,  compriang  the  Loidsldp  of  Bathwyre  and  various 
other  landa,  &c.,  in  the  County  of  Westmeath,  were  sold  bj 
the  CbmmLssionerB  of  Forfeited  Estates  to  Chichester  PhiUips 
of  Dnmcondra,  County  of  Dublin,  and  a  hwger  proportion  to 
Robert  Pakenham  of  Bracklyn.  Those  of  the  abore  Captain 
Sir  Anthony  hty  in  the  Baronies  of  Dunboyne  and  Batoath, 
County  of  Meath. 


CAPTAIN  THOMAS  ARUNDEL. 

This  name  is  of  Irish  record  from  the  time  of  Edward  the 
Second,  when  Reginald  'Broun/  late  Shexiff  of  Kerry, 
appointed  Hugh  de  *  Aroundell'*  his  attorney,  to  render  an 
account  for  him  in  the  Exchequer:  Several  links  in  the 
pedigree  of  Amndells  of  Mam,  in  the  County  of  Limerick, 
in  the  17th  centuiy,  are  given  in  a  genealogical  manuscript  in 
Trimly  College,  Dublin  (F  3,  27).  In  the  Munster  war  of 
1600,  Paul  Arundel  was  a  Captain  in  Lord  Audley*s  Regi- 
ment of  Infismtry.  The  Attiunders  of  1643  present  the  names 
of  Garret  Arundel  and  Ghirret  oge  Arundel,  both  described  as 

of  Aghdullane,  County  of  Cork.    Arundel  of  Stoke  in 

Northamptonshire,  was  one  of  the  Royalists  whom  Ejng 
Charles,  on  his  Restoration,  honoured  with  Knighthood  of 
the  order  of  the  Royal  Oak.  Lord  Henry,  the  third  Baron 
Arundell  of  Wardour,  who  was  one  of  the  persons  committed 
to  prison  in  1678  on  the  information  of  the  in&mous  Titus 
Gates,  after  suffering  five  years*  incarceration,  was  released, 
and  on  King  James*s  aocesrion  to  the  throne  was  sworn  of 
the  Privy  Council.  In  the  following  year  he  was  constituted 
Lord  Keeper  of  the  Privy  Seal,  and  honoured  with  the  order 


44  KOTO  JAMSS'B  IRISH  ABICT  UST. 

of  ibA  Bath.  In  the  wiU  which  King  J^unes  ezecated  at 
Whitehall,  on  the  ere  of  his  abdication,  17th  Noyember, 
1688,  he  appointed  tUb  nobleman  the  adviser  of  his  Qneen, 
and  he  is  one  of  the  witnesses  to  the  instnunent.  On  that 
Ejng's  deportare,  Liord  Arondell,  retiring  from  public  hfe, 
sednded  himself  at  Breamore  in  Wilts,  where  he  died  28th 
December,  1694.*  The  above  Captain  Anmdel  fell  at  the 
battle  of  the  Boyncf 


CAPTAIN ROBERTS. 

A  BRANCH  of  this  Welch  fiimily  had  been  early  planted  in 
Waterford  County,  and  John  Roberts  was  Mayor  of  the 
City  in  1411.  That  the  above  officer  was  of  that  County  is 
strongly  suggested  by  an  Inquisition,  taken  theire  at  Corkam 
in  1696,  on  John  Robe^,  described  as  of  Ballyborogh  in 
Waterford,  attainted. 


CAPTAIN TINTE. 


This  officer,  so  commissioned  in  the  King^s  Own  Infiuitry, 
appears  to  have  been  a  relative  of  the  John  Tynte  of  Chelvey, 
Member  of  Parliament  for  Bridgewater,  in  the  first  Parliar 
ment  held  after  the  Restoration;  and  whom  Sir  Bernard 
Burice  in  his  Landed  Gentry  describes  as  'having  been  a 
devoted  adherent  of  Royalty  during  the  Civil  Wars,  an^ 

*  Burke^i  Peerage^  p.  8S.  f  CkoMs  James  11^  v.  2,  p.  S99. 


THS  king's  BE6IMENT  OF  INFAirTBT.  45 

named  in  the  lidt  of  gentlemen  of  large  estates,  intended  to 

have  been  created  Knights  of  the  Boyai  Oak.* Sir  Henry 

Tynte  was  one  of  the  Representatives  of  Cork  in  the  first 
Irish  Parliament  held  after  the  Restoration;  while  Captain 
William  Tynte  was  one  of  the  '  1649*  Officers,  who  obtained 
in  1666  adjudications  for  their  past  services. 


CAi^TAIN LATTIN. 

This  surname  appears  on  Irish  record  in  1886  in  William 
*  Latoim.'  It  soon  after  is  discovered  (^  the  above  spelling 
in  Ejldare,  where  John,  the  son  of  William  Lattin,  was  a 
merchant  in  Naas  at  the  dose  of  the  sixteenth  century,  and  a 
confidential  trustee  of  the  Wolfe  fiunily.  In  the  last  year  of 
the  reign  of  James  the  First  an  Inquimtion  was  taken  there 
concerning  the  estates  of  Stephen  Lattin.  In  1626  William, 
son  and  heir  of  the  above  John,  the  merchant,  executed  a 
settlement  of  the  family  estates,  and,  he  dying  without  issue 
male,  another  John,  son  of  the  aforesaid  Stephen,  succeeded 
thereto.  This  individual  became  deranged,  or,  as  it  was 
alleged,  affected  to  be  so,  to  save  his  estates.  Inquisitions 
were,  however,  taken  thereof  in  1642,  he  being  in  the  out- 
lawry described  as  of  Morristown  in  Kildare.  William,  the 
son  and  heir  of  this  John,  had  a  grant  of  a  portion  of  his 
fiither^s  estates  after  the  Restoration. 

In  1773  George  Lattin,  of  this  House,  died  at  Morristown. 
His  son  Patrick  was  one  of  the  Aides-de-Camp  of  the  unfor- 
tunate Colonel  Theobald  Dillon  who  was,  as  hereinafter 
mentioned,  assassinated  by  his  own  soldiery  at  Lille ;  aftier 
which  awfid  event  Lattin  retired  to  his  patrimonial  estate  of 


46  KIKG  JAMW'S  IRISH  ABHT  lilBT. 

MomBtown,  where  he  ^ied  in  1836  leaving  no  male  i^auet 
but  hiB  daughter  Panline  having  married  Alexander  Mansfield 
of  Ballynamultinagh  in  Waterford,  Morrigto^ni  paaeed  with 
her  to  him,  and  their  eldest  son  has  taken  the  name  of  Lattin 
in  fiddition  to  his  own  eumafne. 


LIEUTENANT  THOMAS  WAFER. 

Th£  Attdnders  of  1642  name,  amongst  the  forfeiting 
proprietors,  Francis  Wafer  of  Gyanstown,  County  of  Meath; 
and  those  of  1691  have  the  same  name  as  of  Castletown, 
in  that  County.  In  a  '  Note  of  divers  young  gentlemen,  &c., 
gone  beyond  the  seas  in  the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth,*  (Trtn. 
Coll.  MSS.)  *  a  son  of  the  widow  Wafer  of  Dublin '  is  set 
down  as  then  in  Salamanca. 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  EDWARDS. 

This  surname  appears  in  Irish  RoUs  since  the  time  of  the 
Tudors,  and  an  appointment  is  of  record  of  John  *  Edward  * 
in  1422,  to  a  Commissionership  of  assessment  and  array,  over 
the  Barony  of  Lime  in  Meath.  In  1666  Richard  Edwards 
and  Eliza  his  wife,  who  was  daughter  and  heiress  of  Colonel 
John  Kynaston,  had  a  confirmatory  grant  of  Oldcoqrt,  &c.^ 
1,06Q  acres  in  Wicklow;  while  Osbume  Edwards  in  the 
following  year  passed  patent  for  1,374  in  Wexford,  as  did 
Thomas  Edwards  for  546  in  Westmeath. 


THE  king's  BEOIMEKT  OF  IKFANTBT.  47 


LIEUTENANT  CHRISTOPHEB  WELDON. 

This  name  seemB  of  record  on  Irish  Bolls  &om  the  time  of 
EdwBid  the  Second ;  when  Richard  '  de  Weleton '  was  seised 
of  smidry  messuages  and  lands  in  the  City  and  County  of 

Dublin. In  the  Parliament  of  1613  Walter  Weldon  was 

one  of  the  Bepresentatiyes  for  Athy.  He  died  seised  of 
Boscomroe  and  other  lands  in  the  Song's  and  Queen's 
Counties  in  1634,  leaving  Thomas  his  son  and  heir  then 
aged  26  and  married.  James  Weldon,  described  as  of  Newry, 
was  of  the  Confederate  Catholics,  assembled  at  Kilkenny 
in  1646,  while  in  1682  Patrick,  son  and  heir  of  William 
Weldon,  deceased,  had  a  grant  of  538  acres  in  Boscommon. 
^One  of  this  name  was  a  Captain  in  Lord  Slane*8  In&ntry. 


LIEUTENANT  DAVID  NIHILL. 

Besides  this  officer,  a  Peter  'Nihill*  was  Lieutenant  in 
Lord  Kilmallock's  In&ntry.  On  the  Attainders  pf  1691 
are  the  names  of  James  Nihill  of  Limerick  and  Dublin,  and 
the  above  David  Nihill,  styled  of  the  Barony  of  TuUa,  County 
of  Clare.  In  the  lands  of  the  latter,  Laurence  Nihill  claimed 
an  estate  tail,  but  was  dismist,  while  Elinor  Nihill,  aliaa 
Hackett,  as  his  widow  and  executrix,  sought  and  was  allowed 
a  third  part  of  his  Clare  estates,  as  in  pursuance  of  his  will 
of  1683;  and  Bobert  WouHe  made  a  claim  thereon  for  the 
portion  of  his  wife  Anstace,  a  daughter  of  said  David.  At 
the  battle  of  Lauffield  in  1746  Lieutenant  Nihill,  of  Dillon's 
Begiment,  was  kiUed. 


4d  KING  James's  ntiSH  armt  list. 


LIEUTENANT  CHRISTOPHER  AND  ENSIGN 

MATTHEW  TAAFFE. 

This  Cambrian  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time 
of  the  English  invasion.  In  1288  died  Sir  Nicholas  Taaffe, 
whose  son  John  Taaffe  was  by  the  Pope^s  provision  conse- 
crated  Archbishop  of  Armagh,  Reginald  Taaffe  being  his 
Vicar-General.  The  Primate  died  at  Rome  in  1306,  after 
taking  the  mitre)  but  never  saw  his  Province.*  In  1295 
Richard  Taaffe,  the  grandscMi  of  Sir  Nicholas,  was  Sheriff 
of  Dublin,  in  1310  a  member  of  the  Parliament  of  Kilkenny, 
and  in  1315  Sheriff  of  the  County  of  Louth.  He  was  foimder 
of  the  several  lines  of  Taaffes  afterwards  distinguished  as  of 
Ballybragan,  Athclare,  Bolies,  StormanstoWn,  Cookstown, 
Stephenstown,  Ranitty  Dromin,  and  Harlestown,  from  the 
last  of  which  the  present  Viscount  Taaffe  deduces  his 
pedigree. 

In  1326  the  King  granted  to  Anne  de  Cogan  and  Henry 
de  Maundeville  the  *  maritagiuin'  of  Richard,  son  and  heir 
of  Nicholas  '  Taf '  deceased,  who  had  held  of  the  King  in 
capita;  and  in  1344  Edward  the  Third  committed  to  Nicholas 
'  Taaff '  the  custody  of  the  Castle  of  Rath.  In  1373  and 
1375  Richard,  son  of  the  last  named  Nicholas,  by  the  style 
of  Richard  Taaffd  of  Bdlybragan,  and  John  Taaffe  were 
summoned  to  Great  Councils ;  and  in  1376  John  Taaffe 
of  Castle-Lumnagh  was  Sheriff  of  Louth.  In  1386  Nicholas 
Taaffe  was  a  Justice  in  etfre^  and,  in  1401,  the  King,  on  the 
petition  of  this  Nicholas,  granted  to  him  the  Chief  Seijeantcy 

*  Ware's  J^shopsy  ^.  71. 


THE  king's  BEOIMENT  OF  DfFAKTBT.  49 

of  Meaih,  daring  the  minority  of  Edmund,  Earl  of  March, 
with  liberty  to  appoint  his  Deputy.  In  nine  years  after  the 
messuages  and  lands  of  John  Taaffe,  derk,  situated  in  Meath, 
were  committed  to  the  custody  of  Thomas  Walleys,  Esq.,  at 
which  time  the  aforesaid  Nicholas  Taaffe  was  appointed,  with 
three  others,  on  a  most  important  commission  over  Louth, 
and  with  unusually  extensive  powers.  He  was  Sheriff  of  that 
County  in  1428.  In  1479  Sir  Laurence  Taaffe,  the  descend- 
ant of  the  above  Sir  Nidiolas,  was  one  of  the  honourable 
firatemity  of  St.  George  in  Ireland,  on  its  first  institution; 
and,  in  1560,  Nicholas  Taaffe  of  Ballybragan,  the  great 
grandson  of  Sir  Laurence,  was  Sheriff  of  Louth. 

John  Taaffe  of  Ballybragan,  who  became  by  survivorship 
the  heir  male  of  the  aforesaid  Nicholas,  left  three  sons ;  1st, 
Christopher,  whose  grandson  and  namesake  forfeited  Bally- 
bragan in  the  confiscations  of  1641,  and  was  obliged  to 
migrate  to  Ballynaglogh,  in  Sligo,  where  his  elder  line  fiuled 
in  1789;  while  through  other  sons  the  name  has  been 
continued  to  the  present  day  in  the  Counties  of  Boscommon 
and  Mayo.  2nd,  Captain  William,  who  had  fix>m  James  the 
First  grants  of  the  Castle,  lands,  &c.  of  Smermore  in  Louth, 
and  of  various  other  lands  and  premises  in  the  Counties  of 
Mayo,  Sligo,  Boscommon,  (jalway,  Clare,  Cork,  Kerry, 
Limerick,  Tipperary,  Waterford,  Cavan,  Westmeath,  Long- 
ford, Meath,  Kilkenny,  Ealdare,  Queen's  County,  and  Dublin 
County  and  City,  to  hold  in  fee-fiurm.  His  son  and  heir 
male,  John  Taaffe,  was  created  in  1628  Baron  of  Ballymote 
and  Viscount  Taaffe  of  Corran,  and  he  took  his  seat  accord- 
ingly with  his  Peers  in  the  Parliament  of  1634.  3rd,  Peter, 
the  third  son  of  John  of  Ballybragan,  had  settled  at  Dromin, 
in  Louth,  and  his  male  issue  are  still  extant  at  Ardmulchan 
and  Smermore. 

VOL.   II.  E 


50  KING  James's  ibish  abmt  list. 

John,  the  first  Viscount  Taaffe,  left  issue  Theobald  his 
eldest  son,  who  was  created  Earl  of  Carlingford  on  the 
Bestoration,  but  that  dignity  became  extinct  by  the  failure 
of  heirs  male.  Lucas  Taaffe,  the  second  son  of  Viscount 
John  was  a  Major-General  in  the  Irish  Army  during  the 
Usurpation,  and,  by  reason  of  his  opposition  to  Cromwell, 
he  and  his  brother  the  Earl  of  Carlingford  were  denounced 
by  name  in  the  Protector's  Ordinance  of  1652;  whereupon 
Major  Lucas  took  reAige  in  Spain,  in  which  coimtry  he 
became  a  Colonel.  On  the  Bestoration  he  returned  to 
Lreland,  and  in  1655,  through  the  operation  of  the  Act  of 
Settlement,  he,  by  the  style  of  Colonel  Lucas  Taaffe,  and 
Elizabeth  his  wife,  were  restored  to  the  jointure,  portions, 
lands,  &c.,  which  she  or  any  for  her  use  had  held  and  enjoyed 
on  the  23rd  of  October,  1641,  or  since.  The  Elizabeth,  so 
alluded  to,  was  the  daughter  of  Richard  Stephenson  of 
Dunmoylin,  in  Limerick  (one  of  Queen  Elizabeth's  Munster 
patentees) ;  by  her  he  had  no  issue  male.  He  married  to  his 
second  wife,  a  daughter  of  Captain  Springe  of  Kerry  {Lodge) 
but  neither  had  he  issue  by  her,  and,  dying  at  Ballymote, 
he  was  there  interred  in  the  family  vault  with  his  figither. 
Frauds  Taaffe,  a  third  son  of  Viscount  John  was  a  Colonel 
in  the  Lrish  Army  during  the  Civil  War  of  1641,  and  after^ 
wards  died  at  Naples  without  issue ;  whereupon  William 
Taaffe,  the  fourth  son  of  Viscount  John,  became  the  channel 
through  which  the  Viscounty  should  descend,  and  so  has  it 
been  accordingly  enjoyed  by  his  grandson  Nicholas,  who, 
dying  in  1769,  was  succeeded  by  his  grandson  Budolphus, 
bom  in  London  in  1762,  from  whom  it  was  transmitted  to 
his  sons  Francis  and  Lewis  successively.  Seven  other  junior 
sons  of  the  first  Viscount  died  without  issue. 

The  aforesaid  first  Earl  of  Carlingford  had  in  1668  a  grant 


THE  king's  BEGOQBNT  OF  IKFANTBT.  51 

of  9,516  acrea  in  Loutk,  with  a  reservation  of  5,776  more  in 
expectancy^  He  had  likewise  a  pension  of  £800  per  annum 
on  the  establishment,  with  other  substantial  marks  of  Boyal 
fiivour,  and  died  in  December,  1677.  His  son  and  successor 
in  the  Peerage)  Nicholas,  was  a  Colonel  in  this  campaign,  but 
not  on  the  present  Army  List.  He  passed  patent  in  1683 
for  6,200  acres  in  Sligo,  as  did  John  Taaffe  five  years 
previously,  for  223  in  the  barony  of  Ballintobber,  County 
Koscommon.  In  King  James's  Charters  of  1687,  John 
Taaffe  was  one  of  the  Burgesses  in  that  to  Sligo ;  as  were 
John  'Taafe,'  merchant,  George,  Peter,  Nicholas,  and 
another  John  in  one  to  the  Borough  of  Ardee. 

Besides  those  of  the  name  in  this  Regiment,   Nicholas 
Taa£fo  was  a  Comet  in  Tyrconnel's  Horse  (m  which  the 

Kev. Taaffe  was  Chaplain),  and  Thomas  Taaffe  was  a 

Quarter-Master  in   Sarsfield's,  — —  Taaffe  was  a  Captain 

in  Lord  Louth's  Lifkntry,  Taaffe  an  Ensign  in  Lord 

Grormanston's,  one  of  the  name  was  Surgeon  in  Lord 
Galway's,  as  was  another  in  Lord  Bellew's.  At  the  siege  of 
Deny,  a  Major  John  Taaffe,  alleged  to  have  been  a  brother 
to  the  Peer  of  Carlingford,  was  killed  at  Pennybum  MiU.  In 
King  James's  Parliament  of  Dublin  sat  in  the  House  of  Peers 
Nicholas,  son  of  the  aforesaid  Viscount  Theobald,  as  Earl  of 
Carlingford,  soon  afterwards  he  was  despatched  as  a  confiden- 
tial envoy  to  the  Emperor  Leopold;  from  which  embassy 
returning,  he  in  the  following  year  commanded  a  !Begiment 
of  Ldfantry  at  the  Boyne,  where  he  fell  heading  a  charge. 
He  had  married,  but  left  no  issue  ;*  whereupon  his  honours 
devolved  upon  his  brother  Francis  Taaffe,  the  celebrated 
Count  Taaffe  of  the  Germanic  Empire.    He  ranked  there  a 

*  ArchdaJTs  Lodge^  y.  5,  p.  296. 


52  '     KIKG  JAMES'S  IBISH  ABHT  LIST. 

Marshal,  and,  when  he  succeeded  to  his  honours  in  his  native 
land,  was,  by  the  construction  of  a  special  clause  in  the  acts 
of  William  and  Mary  (as  hereinafter  more  particularly 
mentioned),  saved  from  the  consequences  of  outlawry  and 
attainder.  He  was  Colonel  of  the  Royal  Cuirassiers  under 
the  Emperor  Ferdinand  the  Third,  and  Lieutenant-General 
of  the  Horse  (see  of  him  fuUy  in  O'CallagharCs  Irish  BrigadeSy 
vol.  1,  p.  370,  &c.)  AfW  the  disastrous  day  at  the  Boyne, 
Mr.  Taaffe,  *the  Duke  of  Tyrconnel's  chaplain,'  "a  very 
honest  and  discreet  clergyman,"*  was  one  of  those  who 
strongly  laboured  to  persuade  his  discomfitted  sovereign  to 
fly  &om  Dublin.  The  Attainders  of  1691  contain  the  names 
of  the  above  Christopher  Taaffe,  styled  of  Stephenstown; 
five  others  in  the  County  of  Louth ;  and  one,  Francis  Taaffe 
of  Ballymote,  County  of  Sligo.  At  Chichester  House  a 
Theobald  Taaffe  claimed  and  was  allowed  the  benefit  of 
sundry  mortgages  affecting  the  Louth  and  Sligo  estates  of 
Lord  Carlingford.  An  Act  of  William  and  Mary,  passed 
to  prevent  further  reversals  of  attainders  and  outlawries, 
contained  an  express  exception  of  Nicholas,  late  Earl  of 
Carlingford,  or  his  brother  John  Taaffe,  in  regard  to  their 
estates;  reservations  attributable  to  the  high  esteem  in  which 
the  name  was  held  at  the  Imperial  and  other  Continental 
Courts  in  alliance  with  King  William.  He  died  in  August, 
1704,  when  his  honours  devolved  upon  his  nephew,  son  of  his 
aforesaid  brother  John,  and  he  died  at  Lisle  in  1738.  In  the 
previous  year  his  title  was  recognised,  on  the  occasion  of  his 
forwarding  from  Liege,  where  he  was  then  residing,  a  petition 
against  an  act  which  was  at  that  time  being  passed  through 
the  Irish  House  of  Commons,  and  his  right  to  be  heard  by 

♦  darkens  James  ILy  v.  2,  p.  402. 


THE  king's  BEGIUENT  OF  INFAKTBY.  53 

counsel  against  it  was  admitted.  As  he  died  without  issue, 
the  Earldom  of  Carlingford  became  extinct,  but  the  titles  of 
Baron  and  Viscount  devolved  on  his  next  heir  male,  Nicholas 
Taaffe,  descended  from  Captain  William,  who  was,  as  before- 
mentioned,  the  fourth  son  of  the  first  Viscount  Corran,  and 
who  distinguished  himself  in  the  wars  against  the  Turks.  It 
may  be  added  that  this  Viscount  Nicholas  was  the  author  of 
a  clever  and  dispassionate  work,  entitled  Observations  on 
affairs  in  Ireland  from  the  Settlement  in  1691  to  1766. 


LIEUTENANT  PETER  BATHE. 

This  fiuooil j  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of 
Edward  the  Second,  having  come  from  Devonshire,  where 
Bathe  House,  near  Taunton,  was  long  the  designation  of  the 
locality  of  its  settlement.  Henry  de  Bathe,  a  native  of  that 
County,  was,  in  1238,  appointed  a  Justice  of  the  Conmion 
Pleas  in  England,  and  he  died  Chief  Justice  of  the  King's 

Bench  there  in  1261. In  Ireland  Simon  Bathe  is  recorded 

to  have  been  a  proprietor  of  lands  in  the  County  of  Limerick 
at  the  dose  of  the  thirteenth  century.  In  1327  Bichard  de 
Burgo,  Earl  of  Ulster,  having  recentiy  died  indebted  to  the 
King,  Matthew  de  Bathe  was  commanded  on  his  allegiance 
and  under  heavy  penalties,  to  take  into  his  custody  and  care 
all  money  and  jewels,  silver  vessels,  and  all  other  the  goods 
and  chattels  of  the  said  Earl,  and  them  safely  to  keep  until 
he  received  the  Boyal  commands.  This  Matthew  continued 
a  confidential  subject  of  King  Edward,  and  of  his  successor 
Edward  the  Third,  the  latter  having,  in  1333,  granted  to  him 
the  manor  of  Bathfay  in  the  County  of  Meath,  with  the 
advowson,  and  in  1336  the  custody  of  the  Royal  manor  of 


54  KING  JAHES'S  IBISH  ABHY  LIST. 

Leixlip.  In  1350  John  Bathe  was  Provost  of  Dublin,  as  its 
Chief  Magistrate  was  then  and  long  after  styled.  In  1358 
Nicholas  Bathe  was  Constable  of  the  New-Castle-Mao- 
Kinnegan,  in  the  County  of  Wlcklow.  In  1381  Thomas 
Bathe,  clerk,  was  appointed  Chief  Baron  of  the  Irish  Ex- 
chequer, in  which  year  he  had  an  allowance  of  £6  for  his 
expenses  as  a  Conmiissioner,  in  levying  the  forfeited  two- 
thirds  off  lands  of  absentees.  In  four  years  after  he  had  a 
Treasury  order  for  remuneration  on  passing  over  to  England 
to  acquaint  the  King  with  the  state  of  Ireland ;  and  in  1393 
was  one  of  the  Lords  Justices ;  he  died  about  the  year  1420. 

In  1441  another  Thomas  Bathe  was  the  Eing^s  Escheator, 
in  reference  to  whom  it  was  enacted  by  an  unprinted  statute 
of  the  Parliament  of  Drogheda  (1460)  that  Thomas  Bathe, 
Knight,  who  pretends  to  be  Lord  of  Louth,  shall  appear  in 
court  on  a  certain  day  or  be  out  of  the  Eling's  protection;  and 
it  was  further  thereby  ordered  that  said  Thomas  Bathe  shall 
never  have  place  in  the  Parliament  of  this  land,  nor  shall 
enjoy  any  office  therein  under  the  King's  grant.  His  lands  in 
Louth  were  thereupon  seised  as  forfeited ;  but  a  subsequent  act 
of  the  same  session  (c.  21)  restored  John  Bathe  of  Ardee,  who 
seems  to  have  been  his  son  or  relative,  to  certain  messuages, 
lands,  and  tenements  in  Dromisken,  Dtmdalk,  and  other 
places  in  the  Coimty  of  Louth,  which  were  kept  from  him 
under  order  of  forfeitures.  In  1533  William  Bathe  of 
Dollardstown  was  Vice-Treasurer  of  Ireland;  but  was  soon 
afterwards  attainted.  In  1535  James  Bathe  of  Drumconrath 
was  appointed  Chief  Baron  of  the  Irish  Exchequer;  when  he 
fixed  his  residence  in  the  fine  old  Castle  of  Drynmagh,  near 
Dublin,  whose  ruins  are  still  interesting.*    In  1554  John 

*  See  D'AUofCs  County  ofDMin,  p.  700,  &c. 


THS  king's  BEOnCBNT  OF  IKFAKTBT.  55 

Bathe  of  Drumconiath  and  Athcame  was  appointed  Chief 
Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas  in  Ireland.  In  1564  his  son 
and  namesake  was  Attorney-General  for  Ireland,  and  after 
wards  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer;  he  married  Ellen, 
youngest  daughter  of  the  third  Viscount  Gormanston,  and 
their  daughter,  Eleanor,  was  married  to  Nicholas  Nettenrille, 
who  in  1622  was  created  the  first  Viscount  Netterville  of 
Dowth.  In  1581  William  Bathe  was  constituted  a  Justice 
of  the  Common  Pleas;  he  resided  at  the  old  Castle  of 
Athcame,  in  Meath,  and  died  about  the  year  1630,  leaving 
John  Bathe,  his  cousin  and  heir-at-law,  who  died  soon  after 
without  issue  male,  leaving  eight  daughters ;  whereupon 
Athcame  reverted,  under  fiunily  settlement,  to  John  Bathe 
of  Drumconrath  herein  aft«r  mentioned.  In  the  Parliament 
convened  by  Sir  John  Perrot  in  1585,  Thomas  Bathe  was 
one  of  the  Bepresentaiives  for  Dundalk.  '  A  note  (of  about 
this  period)  of  persons  bom  in  Ireland  but  residing  beyond 
the  seas**  has  the  names  of  Luke  Bath  a  Capuchin  friar  in 
Cologne;  William  Bathe,  a  Jesuit  in  Salamanca;  and  John 
Bath,  a  Knight  of  Malta  (^as  is  reputed^  at  the  Court  of 
Madrid. 

In  1611  King  James  granted  to  John  Bathe  of  Balgriffen, 
County  of  Dublin,  the  manor,  &c.,  of  Balgriffen,  to  hold  by  the 
service  of  a  rose  on  St.  John's  day,  with  various  other  lands 
and  premises  in  the  Cotmties  of  Kildare,  Meath,  Westmeaih, 
and  the  City  of  Dublin.  The  Act  of  16 12,  for  the  attainder  of 
the  Earl  of  Tyrone  and  his  adherents,  included  John  Bathe 
of  Dunalong,  County  of  Tyrone,  and  John  Bath,  late  of 
Drogheda,  merchant.  In  1617,  however,  a  John  Bathe  had 
a  grant  of  certain  premises  in  Crumlin,  County  Dublin,  with 

•  MSS,  m  TVw.  OoH  Dub.  (K.  3,  8,  f.  4«.) 


56  KIKG  J'AMES'S  IRISH  ABHT  LIST. 

rectories  and  tithes  in  Corlow,  Meath,  and  Kildare;  the  Castle 
of  Blackrath,  in  the  latter  County,  and  certain  plots  in  the 
City  of  Dublin.  In  1621  died  Robert  Bathe  of  Tanoardstown, 
leaving  Luke  his  son  and  heir,  then  but  eight  months  old. 
In  1634  died  Christopher,  son  of  Thomas  Bathe  of  Drogheda, 
leaving  Peter  his  son  and  heir,  aged  17  and  married;  as  did 
John  Bathe  of  Drumconrath  in  the  same  year,  leaving  James 
his  son  and  heir,  then  aged  40  and  married. 

In  1641  James  Bathe  of  Athcame  was  one  of  the  gentry 
of  the  County  of  Meath,  who  assembled  at  the  Hill  of  Crofty 
to  parley  with  Boger  Moore  and  his  adherents  of  Ulster. 
He  was  consequently  attainted  in  the  following  year,  with 
Bobert  Bath  of  Ejillussy,  County  of  Eildare;  William  and 
Bobert  Bathe  of  Clonturk,  County  of  Dublin,  and  Patrick 
Bathe  of  the  ancient  inheritance  of  Bathfity ,  County  of  Meath. 
In  the  Commons  of  the  Supreme  Council  at  Kilkenny  sat 
Peter  Bathe  Fitz-Bobert,  late  of  Dublin,  Peter  Bathe  of 
Kilkenny,  Bobert  Bath  of  Clonturk,  and  Bobert  Bath,  late 
of  Dublin.  This  Peter  Fitz-Bobert  forfeited  Athcame 
Castle,  which  was  thereupon  granted  to  Colonel  Grace  in 
1673.  Before  the  Act  of  Explanation  in  1665,  Sbr  Luke 
Bathe  was  ordered  to  be  restored  to  his  estate,  and  to  those 
which  his  deceased  father,  James  Bathe,  had  held  on  the  22nd 
of  October,  1641,  with  certain  exceptions.  The  Attainders 
of  1691  included  Christopher  Bathe  of  EInightstown,  Michael 
and  James  Bathe  of  Lady-Bath,  Peter  Bathe  of  Ashbourne 
(where  he  seems  to  have  lived  after  the  previous  loss  of 
Athcame)  Andrew  Bathe  of  Drogheda,  merchant,  and  Edward 
Bathe  of  Painstown,  County  of  Louth;  one  of  these  out- 
laws was  a  Lieutenant  in  Lord  Slane's  Infimtry. At 

Chichester  House,  James  Bathe,  a  minor,  by  Stephen  Bath, 
his  guardian,  claimed  under  a  settieinent  of  November,  1694, 


THB  king's  BEQIMEirr  OF  INFAiniKT.  57 

an  estate  for  life  to  himself  with  remainders  in  tail  to  his  sons 
(after  the  death  of  Peter  Bathe  and  Mary  his  ivife),  in  the 
County  of  Meath  lands  theretofore  forfeited  by  Christopher 
Bathe ;  while  Elizabeth  Bathe,  the  wife  of  said  Christopher, 
claimed  also  an  estate  for  her  life  therein,  after  the  death  of 
said  Peter.  On  the  subsequent  sale  of  Athcame  Castle  and 
its  lands  by  the  Trustees  of  the  forfeited  estates,  it  appeared 
that,  haying  been  forfeited  as  before  mentioned  by  Peter 
Bathe,  it  Tested  on  mesne  assignment  in  King  James,  when 
Duke  of  York,  and  was  then  sold  by  the  Trustees  as  his 
priyate  estate,  to  Thomas  Somerville  of  Dublin,  subject  to 
a  lease  (allowed  by  the  Commissioners)  to  Greorge  Aylmer, 
Launcelot  Dowdall,  Esqs.,  and  Dame  Cicely  Bath  for  99 
years,  from  January,  1668,  at  a  pepper-corn  rent. 

James  Bathe,  the  minor  claimant  at  Chichester  House,  died 
in  1758,  and  his  grandson,  James  Michael  Bathe,  assumed 
the  more  legitimate,  as  it  was  liie  original,  surname  of  *  de 
Bathe.'  He  was  created  a  Baronet  in  1801,  in  seven  years 
after  which  he  died,  leaving  two  sons,  the  eldest  of  whom 
having  died  in  1828  unmairied,  the  title  devolved  upon  his 
brother,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Sir  William  Plunkett  de  Bathe, 
the  present  Baronet. 

LIEUTENANT  EDWAED  TIPPER. 

This  officer  is  described  in  his  attainder  as  of  a  locality  in 
the  County  of  Kildare,  that  took  its  name  of  Tipperstown 
from  the  fiGunily.  Francis  Tipper  was  also  a  Lieutenant  in 
Sir  Maurice  Eustace's  Infimtry ,  and  a  William  Tipper  appears 
to  have  been  at  the  same  time  attainted  in  this  County,  on 
whose  estates  there,  another  William  claimed  an  interest  for 
life  with  remainders  in  tail  to  his  sons. 


58  KIKG  JAUES'S  IBI8H  ABMT  LIST. 


LIEUTENANT  THOMAS  SKELTON. 

A  Chasles  Skelton  also  ranks  on  this  List  a  Lieutenant 
in  Colonel  John  Parker's  Horse,  yet  nether  of  these  names 
appears  on  the  Attainders  of  1691^  which  oomprise  only 
John  of  Dublin,  Beyil  Skelton  of  Dublin,  and  Maiia  Skelton, 
cUioB  O'Brien  his  wife.  In  1689,  July  the  1st,  a  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  Skelton  is  recorded  as  having  been  joined  in  com- 
mission with  Colonel  Dominiok  Sheldon,  to  conclude  a  treaty 
with  the  garrison  of  Derry  on  that  day.  In  a  genealogical 
manuscript  in  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  are  links  of  a  pedigree 
of  the  Skeltons  of  the  County  of  Limerick  for  five  generations ; 
while  it  may  be  added  that  this  surname  was  at  a  yery  early 
age  established  in  Cumberland;  of  which  stock  Richard 
Skelton  fought  at  Agincourt,  imder  Henry  the  Fifth,  and  he 
filled  the  office  of  High  Sheriff  of  that  County. 


LIEUTENANT  DAVIS. 

John  Davis  of  Bathenny  was  one  of  those  attainted  in 
1642.  No  Davis  appears  on  the  BoUs  of  1691  outlawries. 
The  most  eminent  individual  of  the  name,  who  has  been 
distingoished  in  Ireland,  was  Sir  John  Davis,  the  Attorney- 
Greneral  of  Queen  Elizabeth  and  James  the  First,  and  yet 
more,  the  author  qf  those  Historical  JRelations  which  afford 
the  most  graphic  and  able  summary  of  the  vicissitudes  of 
Ireland  that  has  ever  been  published.  The  name  was  about 
his  time  estabUshed  in  Fermanagh,  Tyrone,  and  Roscommon 


THE  king's  regiment  OF  INFANTBT.  59 


In  1661  Paul  Davis,  Enight,  was  one  of  the  Conunissioners 
appointed  to  put  the  restored  King's  Declaration  into  exe- 
cution ;  and  he  was  about  the  same  time  entrusted  with  the 
duty  of  assessing  and  collecting  a  state  subsidy  over  Ireland. 
In  1684  Henry  ^Davys'  was  Sheriff  of  Antrim,  as  was 
John  '  Davies'  in  1705. 


LIEUTENANT  CHAELES  POVET. 

None  of  this  name  appear  on  the  Attainders.  In  1673 
John  Povey,  Knight,  and  theretofore  Baron  of  the  Exchequer 
in  Ireland,  was  appointed  Chief  Justice  of  the  Ejng^s  Bench; 
and  in  1702  Richard  Povey  was  appointed  principal  Serjeant- 
at-Arms.  The  connections  of  this  Lieutenant  are,  however, 
wholly  unknown. 


LIEUTENANT KENEALY. 

This  surname  does  not  appear  on  the  Boll  of  Attainders, 
nor  has  any  certain  information  of  this  officer  or  of  his  fiunily 
been  learned. 


LIEUTENANT WARE. 

Ths  only  individual  of  this  surname  attainted  in  1642  was 
John  Ware  of  Castletown-Moylagh,  in  Meath.     The  most 


60  KING  JAMES'S  IBISH  ABMY  LIST. 

eminent  individual,  however,  of  the  name,  who  figured  in 
Ireland,  was  Sir  James  Ware,  whose  grandfather,  Christopher 
Ware,  descended  from  an  andent  fiunilj  in  Yorkshire,  became 
after  the  Beformation  a  Conformist,  and  his  line  having 
become  extinct  iherey  was  destined  to  be  introduced  to 
Ireland  through  his  second  son,  James,  who  came  over  to  this 
country  in  1588  as  Secretary  to  Sir  William  Fitz  Williams,  then 
Lord  Deputy.  He  was  Knighted  by  King  James  in  1622, 
and  having  married  Mary,  sister  of  Sir  Ambrose  Briden  of 
Maidstone  in  Kent,  he  had  by  her  Sir  James,  his  eldest  son 
(whom  Bishop  Nicholson  deservedly  styles  the  '  Camden  of 
Ireland')  with  four  other  sons  and  five  daughters.  During 
the  time  of  the  Commonwealth  Sir  James  fled  to,  and  sojourned 
in,  France,  whence  returning  on  the  Bestoration,  he  was 
appointed  one  of  the  Commissioners  for  putting  the  King's 
Declaration  of  1661  in  execution  in  Ireland;  in  five  years 
after  which  he  died.  He  had  married  Mary,  daughter  of 
Jacob  Newman,  who  brought  him  ten  children ;  but  whether 
the  above  officer  was  of  this  line  has  not  been  ascertained,  the 
difficulty  of  inquiry  being  much  increased  by  the  absence  of 
the  Christian  name  firom  the  British  Museum  List.  A  branch 
of  the  Wares,  claiming  descent  from  Secretary  Sir  James 
Ware,  is  still  flourishing  in  the  County  of  Cork. 


ENSIGN  TALBOT  SALTEB. 
NOTHIKG  known  of  him  or  his  fiunily . 


THE  KINQ*S  HEGIMENT  OF  INFANTRY.        61 


ENSIGN  JAMES  TOUCHETT. 

The  family  of  Touchett  came  into  England  with  the  Con- 
queror, as  recorded  on  the  Roll  of  Battle  Abbey,  and  in  the 
Chronicles  of  Normandy.  In  1405  John  Tonchett  was  sum- 
moned to  Parliament  in  England  as  Lord  Audley ;  his  great 
grandson,  James  Audley,  was  attainted  in  the  time  of  Henry 
the  Seventh,  but  his  son  was  restored  to  his  rank  in  1513,  and 
his  great  grandson,  Greoige  Lord  Audley,  took  up  his  resid- 
ence in  Ireland,  where,  in  1605,  he  had  a  grant  of  the  manor 
of  Feons,  parcel  of  the  estate  of  the  then  late  Duke  of  Nor- 
folk, and  of  Lord  Berkley,  with  simdry  dissolved  priories  and 
their  possessions,  in  the  Counties  of  Kildare,  Tipperary, 
Carlow,  and  Cork.  In  the  year  1610,  in  consideration  of 
an  annuity  or  rent-charge  of  £500  English  secured  to  him  for 
his  life,  he  assigned  *'  to  Sir  Mervyn  '  Tuchett,'  EInight,  his 
son  and  heir-apparent,  his  whole  estate  in  Ireland,  to  hold  to 
him  thenceforth  in  fee,  together  with  all  his  stock  of  cattle 
and  com,  and  all  other  goods  and  chattels  in  Ireland,  reserving 
to  his  Lordship  some  chattels  and  household  stuffs,  and  he, 
said  Sir  Mervyn,  payiag  to  Sir  Ferdinando  Tuchett,  Knight, 
second  son  of  Lord  Audley,  an  annuity  of  one  hundred  marks 
in  the  Middle  Temple  Hall,  London;  and  being  bound  after 
his  Lordship*s  death,  to  convey  over  to  the  said  Ferdinando 
the  fee  of  lands  in  England  or  Ireland,  to  the  clear  yearly 
value  of  £100  sterling.* 

This  Lord  George  and  his  Lady  had  a  grant,  in  1612,  of 
various  lands  in  the  County  of  Armagh,  as  had  the  said 

•  EoL  PaL  Jac  1,  Cane  Hib. 


62  KING  JAMSS'S  IBISH  ABICT  LIST. 

Sir  Mervyn  of  yet  more  in  Tyrone,  to  hold  sabjeet  to  the 
conditions  of  the  Plantation  of  Ulster.  In  five  years  after 
the  former  -was  advanced  in  the  Irish  Peerage  to  the  dignities 
of  Baron  Oriel  and  Earl  of  Castlehaven.  His  grandson, 
James  Tonchet,  Earl  of  Castlehaven,  during  the  civil  wars  of 
Ireland  commanded  under  the  Duke  of  Ormonde,  and  in  1649 
W9B  chosen  GrenenJ  of  the  Irish  forces.  He  and  his  brother 
were,  therefore,  in  Cromwell's  Ordinance  of  1652,  excepted 
fix)m  pardcm  for  life  and  estate.  His  son  Mervyn,  Earl  of 
Castlehaven,  was  of  the  Peers  in  King  James's  Parliament  of 
1689,  and  had  a  pension  of  £500  per  annumf  charged  on  the 
establishment  of  1687-8.  Mervyn's  son  James,  afterwards 
the  Earl,  is  possibly  identical  with  the  above  Ensign  James, 
in  this  the  Boyal  In&ntry. 


ENSIGN  NICHOLAS  TYEWHITT. 
NoTHiNa  known  of  him  or  his  fiunily. 


ENSIGN CHAMBERLAIN. 

Ahonost  those  attainted  in  1642  were  John  Chamberlain  of 
Oldtown-Clonmethan,  and  Robert  Chamberlain  of  Eolresk, 
both  in  the  Coimty  of  Dublin;  while  in  1691  Thomas  Cham- 
berlain of  Eilresk  was  subjected  to  the  penalty  of  inveterate 
loyalty,  and  outlawed  with  Richard  and  Peter  Chamberlain 
of  Killenebojy,  and  Rowland  of  Mullingar. 

The  name,  of  Anglo-Norman  origin,  was  introduced  to 


THS  king's  BEOlMElfT  OF  INVAITrRT.  63 

Ireknd  on  the  Engliah  invasion,  and  Adam  Chamberlain 
was  one  of  those  who  over-ran  Ulster  under  John  De  Courcey. 
Chamberlains  were  subsequently  located  in  this  country, 
along  its  eastern  coast  firom  Down  to  Wicklow,  and  some 
few  years  since,  on  a  genealogical  inquiry,  no  less  than  fifteen 
parchment  deeds  and  conveyances,  connected  with  a  succession 
of  'Chamberlaynes,'  firom  1306  to  1509,  were  submitted  to 
the  compiler  of  this  work,  many  of  them  had  their  seals 
appended  perfect,  and  all  were  drawn  up  with  such  singular 
and  pithy  brevity,  that  the  whole  were  contained  in  the 
vacated  slide-box  of  a  dissection  miqp.  The  proud  antiquity 
of  a  name,  now  so  little  known  in  this  country,  and  its 
dear  alliance  with  the  Montmorency  branch  of  the  Boyal 
House  of  France,  are  shewn  in  Sir  Bernard  Burke'$  Landed 
Gentry. 


ENSIGN  EDWARD  TOOLE. 

Vebt  full  particulars  of  this  ancient  Sept  are  given  in 
D' Alton's  Annals  of  BoyU  (v.  2,  p.  218,  &c.)  The  O'Tooles 
were  independent  Princes  of  Imaile  and  Cuokn,  in  the  wild 
mountain  district  forming  a  moiety  of  what  had  been  in  the 
time  of  James  the  First  reduced  to  English  government,  and 
erected  into  the  County  of  WicUow.  They  constituted  one 
of  the  septs  that  were  eligible  to  the  dignity  of  EJugs  of 
Leinster,  and  their  territory  formed  the  Diocese  of  Glenda- 
lough,  whose  bishops  and  abbots  they  exercised  the  prerogative 
of  appointing,  down  to  1497,  when  it  was  united  to  the 
Archiepiscopal  See  of  Dublin.  A  few  years  before  the 
English  Invasion,  Laurence  O'Toole,  afterwards  canonized, 


64  Knro  james's  ibish  a^mt  ust. 

was  advanced  from  the  Abbacy  of  Glendalough  to  the  Arch- 
bishopric of  Dublin*  The  death  of  his  &ther  is  recorded 
by  the  Masters  at  1164,  as  is  that  of  Felim  O'Toole,  Lord  of 

HjMuiredhaugh  (Imaile),  in  1259. In  1308  the  in  &moiis 

Piers  Gaveston  diverted  the  interval  of  his  official  exile  to 
Ireland,  in  penetrating  the  country  of  the  0*Tooles,  whose 
stronghold  at  Castle-Kevin  he  is  reported  to  have  stormed, 
afterwards  kying  his  offerings,  as  of  atonement,  at  the  shrine 
of  St.  Kevin  in  Glendalough.  In  1327  David  OToole, 
then  Captain  of  the  Sept,  was  taken  prisoner  by  Sir  John 
de  Wellesley,  ancestor  of  ^  the  Duke.'  In  1333  John  D'Arcy, 
the  justiciary,  made  a  foray  into  the  country  of  the  O'Bymes 
and  O'Tooles,  on  which  occaaon  it  is  recorded  that  the  new 
Castle-Mac-Kinnegan  was  plentifully  supplied  with  wine, 
and  John  de  Fjmchdene  appointed  its  Constable.  In  1344 
the  Seneschal  of  the  Liberty  of  Kildare  was  ordered  to  pro- 
claim, Hhat  no  one  should  supply  provisions,  arms,  or  horses, 
to  the  O'Tooles,  O'Bymes,  Mao  Murroghs,  or  O'Nokns, 
who  had  risen  in  arms ;  and  that  there  should  be  one  peace 
or  one  war  through  the  land ;  so  that,  if  there  should  be 
war  in  one  county,  the  neighbours  should  join  to  suppress  it.' 
In  1366  the  Lord  Deputy  made  a  treaty  with  Hugh 
O'Toole,  then  the  Captain,  whereby  he  agreed  to  allow  that 
chieftain  a  stipend  in  the  nature  of  black  mail,  to  secure  the 
Pale  from  the  predatory  incursions  of  his  foUowers.f  This 
policy  of  bounty  was,  in  the  history  of  the  Pale,  so  frequently 
necessitated  for  its  security,  that  an  Act  of  the  Irish  legis- 
lature (28  Hen.  8,  c.  11)  was  passed  ^'  for  restraining  tributes 


♦  See  of  this  illustrious  Prelate,  fully,  D^AUarCs  Archbishops  of  Dublin^ 
p.  51,  &ۥ 

t  MaswCs  Irish  ParUaments^  p.  22. 


THB  KIKO'S  BEOIHSNT  OF  ZNTFAKTBT.  65 

^T^i  to  Irishmen."  In  1367  Thomas  de  Burie79  then 
Chancellor  of  Ireland,  had  an  order  for  £43  6s.  8d.  ^on 
account  of  labours  and  disbursements  incnrred  by  him  in 
supplying  men  at  arms,  &c.,  to  reost  the  OTooles,  at  a  time 
when  the  Treasury  was  empty,  and  many  parleys  and  forays, 
with  or  agaiiut  them^  were  necessitated.'  In  1396,  say  the 
Four  Masters,  ''the  English  of  Leinster  were  defeated  by 
O'Toole  with  great  slaughter."  It  was  on  the  occasion  of 
this  continued  foray,  that  Boger  Mortimer,  then  Earl  of 
Marcli,  King  Bichard's  Vic^erent  in  Ireland,  and  the  heir 
presumptiye  to  the  English  Crown,  was  surprised,  defeated, 
and  slain;  and  therefore  it  was,  and  with  the  object  of 
chastising  *the  insolence  of  the  Irish,'  and  avenging  the 
death  of  Mortimer,  that  the  English  Monarch  undertook  his 

second  j  oumey  to  Ireland only  to  raise  another  patriot  hero 

in  Art  Mac  Murrough,  for  the  veneration  of  that  country, 
and  to  consummate  his  own  dethronement.  Subsequently 
the  Counties  of  Kildare  and  Dublin  were  charged  to  supply 
men  at  arms  and  archers  against  the  O'Tooles. 

In  1425  the  Earl  of  Qrmond,  Lieutenant  of  Ireland,  eflfected 
a  peace,  by  indenture,  with  Dermot  O'Toole,  Chief  of  his 
nation,  he  swearing  allegiance  and  giving  his  son  as  a  hostage. 
In  1497  Sir  William  Wellesley  of  Dangan,  the  lineal  de- 
scendant of  the  aforesaid  Sir  John,  who  had  done  such  active 
service  against  the  O'Tooles,  was  fidn  to  espouse  one  of  this 
denounced  sept,  Matilda  O'Toole,  having  first,  as  was  neces- 
sary, obtained  aBoyal  letter  of  license,  dated  the  30th  of  May 
in  this  year,  whereby  she  and  their  hdrs  were  admitted  to 
the  benefit  of  English  laws  and  English  liberties,  and  thus 
exempted  £ix>m  the  many  penal  statutes  thai  in  force  against 
alliances  with  the  native  Irish.  It  is  singular  that  pedigree 
compilations  omit  to  mention  this  marriage ;  but,  while  the 

VOL.  II,  F 


68  Kora  JAMB8*s  nasH  abut  libt. 

lioeiise  k  of  recotd  in  Chancery^  the  fiM^t  k  yet  more  asionid 
by  a  patent  o£  1506,  whereby  King  Henry  ihe  Sevenlih 
pardoDjed  Patiiok  HuBsey  and  ^Maw'  O'Toote,  hi*  wife, 
lately  the  mfe  of  Sir  WUliam  WdUsly  of  Dangmij  for  their 
intermairying  withont  having  first  obtained  the  Boyal  lioense. 

In  tike  time  of  Henry  the  Eighth^  as  appears  by  Inqmsition 
of  Jamea  the  Firsts  Tnrlogh  O'Toole  and  his  brother  Art 
prefened  a  petition  to  that  King,  deaixing  'to  have  a  certain 
territory  in  Wioklour  called  Fercnllen,  whioh  their  ancestors 
had,  till  tiiey  were  expulsed  by  the  Earls  of  Kildare ;  that 
said  country  comprised  in  length  &ve  nules  and  four  in 
breadth,  being,  the  more  part,  mountiains^  woods,  and  rochs^ 
and  the  other  part  good  fertile  knds ;  and  praying  thai  said 
Toriogh.may  haye  the  premoes  divided  between  him  and  his 
sept,  as  shall  be  idionght  meet  by  ^oae  whom  the  King  may 
appoint.  The  petition  of  his  brother,  said  Art,  was  to  have 
tibe  manor  of  Clustle-KeTin,  wiih  the  lands  in  the  Fertyr 
(Yartrey).  After  which,  says  the  Inquisiiion^  the  King 
directed  that  the  letters  patent  should  pass,  giving  the  lands 
sought  by  Art,  to  him  in  tail  male,  with  revernon  to  the 
CroWn ;  in  which  sdsin  Art  died,  leaving  Luke  his  son  and 
.heir,  who  became  seised  thereof  and  died,  leaving  Bamaby 
his  son  and  heir,  who  entered  on  the  premises ;  but  rebelling 
against  Queen  Elizabeth,  died  in  1596,  when  Feogh,  oUob 
Luke  O'TooIe,  was  his  son  and  heir. 

Spencer,  in  his  View  oflrelandf  characterizes  tibie  O'Tooles 
and  O'Bymes,  as  ^the  two  mischievous  dans,  that  inhabited 
the  giyns  of  WhMow.'  The  Four  Masters  areiFery  full  in 
detailing  the  O'TooW  redstance  to  subjugatidn,  especially 
in  1580.  In  the  time  of  James  the  First,  however,  ^  tiie 
lord  of  Imail'  fnmidied  to  military  muster  24  horsemen  and 
80  kerns,  yet  were  many  of  the  sept  th^i  attainted ;  while  a 


THE  king's  BEanCENT  OF  H^ANTBT.  67 

kige  txact,  theretofore  the  eetatea  of  Bryan  and  Php lim 
O'Toole,  indnduig  the  manor  of  Ppwersconrt,  the  tenitoiy 
of  Fercnllen^  &0.9  was  granted,  in  1605,  to  Sir  BJohard  Wing- 
field,  whoae  descendants  took  the  title  of  Y iscount  fixnn  that 
nwnor.  In  1622  died  Cahir  O'Toole,  edsedof  Ballyhubbock 
and  oih^  hinds  ifi  Wicklow*  Dermptt  his  son  and  heir  was 
then  aged  40  and  married  H^  died  in  four  years  after, 
leaving  Cahir  his  son  f^id  heir,  aged  thirteen.  In  1642 
twenty-fimr  O^Tooles  appear  on  the  BoUs  of  Ontlawxies, 
grert  propiJeU»»  in  WkUow.  An  infonnation  filed  in  1661 
sets  forth  also  that  the  lands  of  Fairtree  (Vartrey),  which  had 
been  th^  inh^tonce  of  Lnke  O'Toole,  were  seized  by  the 
Ciaow9  wd  granted  to  SeoretoiT  Coke,  about  the  year  1636 ; 
that  the  kaid  cp9sisted  of  15,441  acres  of  all  scats,  En^ish. 
measiare,  was  aitPated  twelve  miles  ^m  Dublin^  had  a  Castle 
i9<m  it  called  *  Kevin,'  and  a  fini^  xiyer  full  oi  eahnon  and 
trout. 

In  the  Irish  Parliament  of  1689,  Frauds  Toole  sat  as 
Bepresentatiye  of  the  Borough  of  Wicklow,  and  on  the  Lost 
of  Colonels,  prefixed  to  the  present  Army  List,  the  name  of 
this  Francis  appears*  Colcmd  of  an  Indepaident  Company  of 
Fusiliers;  but  as  he  is  omitted  in  the  subsequent  details,  the 
memofir  of  the  name  ehofdd  be  attoched  to  Ens^  EdwiQEd. 
One  of  this  name  was  a  Lieut^mut  in  Lord  Slane's  Ke^ment 
of  In&ntiy.  The  forfeitures  of  1691  exhibit  but  six  OTooles 
as  of  WicUow,  and  one  in  each  of  three  other  Counties, 
Carlow,  Kildace,  and  Weatord.  Som^  l^storians  of  the 
batde  of  the  Boyne  affirm  that  the  death  of  Marshal  Schon- 
bcqg,  whBe  moasiog  that  nver,  was  oaused  by  a  ahot  firom  an 
exempt  of  the  Boyal  Guavd,  atyled  Snr  Chaxks  OTod^ 

Several  of  this  name  were  afterwards  distinguished  officers 
in  the  Irish  Brigsd^s  serriog  in  France  and  Spain;  (see 


68  KING  JAMES'S  IBISH  ASMT  UST. 

G*CaUaghafCB  Brigades^  T.  i.,  p.  346,)  and  in  1719,  Captain 
O'Toole,  witli  Colonel  Wogan  of  the  Bathco%  line,  (who 
was  a  nephew  of  the  Dnke  of  Tyrconnel,)  and  two  others  of 
the  Lriah  Brigade  in  the  service  of  the  latter  power,  sncceeded 
in  carrying  off  Maria-Clementina  Sobieski,  (grand-daughter 
of  the  celebrated  John  Sobieski,  King  of  Poland,  who 
defeated  the  Tnrks  before  yienna,)  then  betrothed  to  James 
ihe  Third,  as  the  son  of  James  the  Second  was  slyled  bj 
them.  They  eflfected  her  liberation  from  the  Castie  of  In- 
spmck  in  the  Tyrol,  where  she  had  been  detained  for  some 
previous  months  by  command  of  the  Emperor  Charles  VI., 
at  the  instance  of  George  the  First.  From  hence  tiiey 
brought  her  in  disguise  to  Monte  Fiascone  within  tiie  Pope's 
dominions,  where  James  himself  met  her,  and  tiidr  marriage 
was  celebrated.  The  Pope,  on  tiidr  repairing  to  Borne, 
recdyed  the  gallant  officers  most  cordially,  and  created  them 
of  the  Holy  Boman  order.* 


ENSIGN  THOMAS  POTNTZ. 
NOTHINO  has  been  ascertained  of  him  or  his  connections. 


ENSIGN KEMPSTONE. 

This  surname  is  not  to  be  found  on  the  attainders  of  this 
period,  nor  on  any  contemporaneous  records. 

*  De  Burgct'i  Bib.  Dam.  p.  266. 


hahilion's  imvantbt. 


69 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTEY. 


COLONEL  JOHN  HAIOLTON'S. 


Captams, 

Limtmamtt. 

TheColoneL 

Anthony-  Ck>leman. 

James  Nugent, 
Uent-CoL 

John  Talbot, 
Major. 

[JameB  Gibbei,  2od  Major] 

Daniel  O'Haim. 

KeaneO'Hanu 

Jobn  Stanlqr. 

Andrew  Dnffe. 

Nicbdas  Hamad. 

Bartholomew  Hanold. 

Edmnnd  Mmpli^. 

Lawrence  Dnffe. 

Treon 

ICagee. 

Maurice  Fftsgenld. 
James  Gibbons. 

Anthony  Geoghegan. 

Sienr  da  Pratt, 
Gmnad. 

/Walter  Plmikett 
\ ^Doyle. 

Ber. Kelly,  Chaplam, 

Entigm. 


Magenls. 


Coimnck  (yHaia. 

Francis  Warren. 
Charles  Sanders. 
Ford. 


70  KING  ;rAMS8'0  IHIflH  ABMT  LIST. 


COLONEL  JOHN  HAMILTON- 

This  Officeri  says  Colond  O^elly's  narratiye,*  was  one  of 
these  deputed  by  Tyrcoimely  during  his  absence  from  the 
goyemment  on  attendance  at  St.  Grermaan's,  to  guide  and 
advise  the  young  Duke  of  Berwick.  He  was  the  brother  as 
well  of  General  Bichard  Hamilton  who  was  taken  prisoner  at 
the  Boyne,  as  of  the  accomplished  Colonel  Anthony  Hamiltouy 
and  ranked  as  a  Major-General  and  a  Brigadier  at  Anghrim, 
where  he  was,  according  to  O'Callaghan,  mortally  wounded* 
O'Conor,  in  his  Military  Memoirs^  (p.  143),  says  that  he  had 
been  with  a  force  detached  to  the  aid  of  beneged  Limerick, 
but  too  late  for  its  last  struggle;  the  enemy  were  in  possession 
of  the  ramparts,  and  drove  back  the  designed  relief  to  their 
camp. 


CAPTAIN  DANIEL  O'HARA. 

Of  the  noble  Sept  of  O'Hara  the  Chief  was  Lord  of  Luigne, 
in  the  County  of  Sligo,  a  territory  which  comprised  the  pre- 
sent Barony  of  Leney  with  parts  of  those  of  Costello  and 
Gallan.  At  so  early  a  period  as  1023,  the  death  of  Donagh 
O'Hara,  Lord  of  Luigne,  is  noted  by  the  Four  Masters;  as  is 
the  death  of  Duncan  O'Hara,  *Lord  of  the  Three  Tribes  of 
Luigne,*  in  1059.  From  which  period,  to  a  comparatively 
recent  date,  the  succession  of  their  Tanists  or  Captains  is  set 
down  with  singular  exactness  in  a  venerable  Irish  manuscript 

*  CCaUaghan^s  Macaria  Exddiumy  p.  83. 


extitled  the  ^  Book  of  the  O^Hara^.'  When  King  John  made 
bis  Boyal  YisitatioB  of  Ireland  in  1210,  Boderic  O'Conor, 
having  waited  upon  biip  ftt  Bathwyre  in  Westmeath,  to  do 
fealt^t  that  monardi  deovkuded  hU  son  as  a  hostage ;  O'Conqr 
boweyi^,.saj7  the  Four  Masters,  *  would  not  give  his  son,  but 
g^YA  four  of  his  chiefe  insteadi  WMnely  Connor  O'Hara,  Lord 
ofJjomjf  Dennot  son  of  Connoi^  O'Mukooney  (founder  of  the 
MacDermotts),  Lord  of  Moylurg,  Fion  O'Carmaoain,  and 
.^ireaehtadi  MAoDonQg^  a  young  prince  of  O'Conor's  friends. 
The  King  retonie^  .to  England,  and  hn>ught  the  hostages 
with  him*'  In  1225,  yrhen  a  destnictiye  plague  and  fever 
devastated  Coonaughtt  ^X>mcan  O'Hara,  Teigue  O'Hara,  a^d 
£dadn»^  dftugbter  of  P^rmod,  «Qn  of  DonM  Q^Bfoa,  died 
JUaoBBoff'  Sy  Qne  9f  th^  Chie£|,  KJoane  O'Sara,  Templehouse 
was  ereeted  early  ip  the  fqmp^^^&fxfix  centaury,  within  t^heir 
principality,  mi  on  the  sitie  of  an  anoi^  foundation  of  the 
Knights  Templaaqs.  The  Abhey  of  Oourt,  whose  n^  axe 
etill  disceroibley  waB  aeon  ^St&r  fom^ded  by  another  of  the 
OHaras. 

The  above  O0icer9  Captain  Daniel  waf,  it  will  be  seei^,  of 
an  Antrim  branoh  of  the  %nily,  of  whom  in  1608,  in  awe 
fit  ijie  Plantation  c^st^,  Cahill  O'Hara,  John  oge  O'Qar^, 
John  gram  0'^an^  and  Ppnnel  O'Hara  sought  and  obtained 
Jesters  of  pacdon  and  protection.  Of  these  Cahill  had  a  grant 
in  1606  of  anndry  landa  in  Lower  Clandeboy,  and,  in  six  ye^ 
fifi/ex^  passed  patent  for  holding  a  weekly  market  at  Crebilly, 
with  right  of  pie-poiif/dre  and  the  usual  tojls**  In  1 607  Teigue 
O'Hara  had  granted  to  him  various  castles,  towns,  $uid  lands 
jn  th§  County  of  31igo.  In  1627  Cormao  0'^9ra  was  Sheri^ 
of  Antrim ;  of  his  pedigree,  a  manuscript  Book  of  Obits  in  the 

•       I  *        ft   •  • 

*R0^Pat.  9,/ac.  1,  m  Cane,  Hib. 


72  KiKa  jaheb's  ibish  asmt  list. 

collection  at  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  supplies  some  links  for 
five  generations.  In  1639  died  the  aforesaid  Cahill,  seised  of 
the  manor,  castle,  and  lands  of  Crebilly,  &c.,  in  Antrim. 
Teigue  0*Hara,  his  great  grandson  and  heir,  was  then  of  full 
age  and  married ;  and  he,  together  vriik  Charles  O'Hara,  and 
Mary  his  wife,  had  a  confirmatory  giant  in  1667  of  765  acres 
in  Antrim,  while  in  1670  a  Charles  O'Hara  passed  patent  for 
978  in  Wexford. 

On  the  Down  Survey  thirteen  O'Haras  are  noted  as  for* 
feiting  proprietors  in  Sligo.  In  1661  Margaret,  daughter  of 
Thady  O'Hara  of  Crebilly,  by  Catherine  sister  of  Danid 
O^Nall,  (who  was  page  of  honour  to  Charles  the  Second)  was 
married  to  the  third  Viscount  Netterville.*  Besides  the  above 
Captain  Daniel,  Keane,  his  lieutenant,  and  Cormick  O'Hara 
his  Enogn,  who  in  their  attainders  are  described  as  of  Logh- 
dale,  County  of  Antrim,  there  are  upon  this  Army  List, 
another  Cormuck  O'Hara,  Captain  in  Colonel  Cormuck 
O'Ndll's  Infimtry,  in  which  Ardiur  O'Hara  of  Farris  in  said 
County  was  a  Lieutenant,  and  Manus  O'Hara  an  Ensign; 
while  in  Colonel  Dominick  Browne's,  John  O'Hara,  son  of 
Thadeus  O'Hara  of  Crebilly,  was  a  Lieutenant.  All  these 
were  consequently  attainted  in  1691,  with  Roger  O'Hara 
described  as  of  Montagh,  in  the  County  of  Sligo.  The 
estates  of  John  O'Hara  in  Down,  and  those  of  Keane  O'Hara 
in  Antrim  were  sold  to  the  Hollow  Swords  Blades'  Company. 

In  1692  Sir  Charles '  Hara'  and  others  obtained  a  patent 
grant  from  Eing  TVllliam  and  Queen  Mary  for  lighting 
Dublin  with  convex  lamps.!  A  Charles  Hara  was  afterwards 
wounded  at  the  battle  of  Landon4    The  name  of  O'Hara  was 

♦  Lodgers  Peerage.  t  Harm^s  MSS.  Dub,  Soc  ▼.  10,  pp.  9,  &c 

t  Baxodon  Papers^  p.  879. 


HAMILTON'S  USOtASTRY.  73 

flubsequeniiy  ennobled  in  the  person  of  James  O'Hara,  created 
Baron  of  Tyrawley  in  1706-7,  and  in  1721  Baron  of  Eilmaine  * 

^In  1744  Captain  O'Hara,  of  an  Irish  Brigade  in  Prince 

Charles-Edward's  service,  was,  with  Captain  O'Brien,  taken 
prisoner  at  Harwich  by  an  order  from  Lord  Carteret.  They 
had  arrived  there  with  the  intention  of  crossing  to  Holland, 
but  were  carried  back  in  custody  to  London.  Brigadier- 
General  O'Hara  was  distinguished  in  the  American  war  of 
1781,  and  was  wounded  in  an  engagement  near  Deep  Biver, 
where  the  Americans  were  commanded  by  General  Greene. 
He  was,  however,  ultimately  obliged,  with  Earl  ComwalHs, 
to  surrender  at  Yorktown.  Li  1793  a  General  O'Hara  was 
taken  prisoner  in  the  attack  on  Toulon.t 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  STANLEY. 

This  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  l&e  earliest  introduction 
of  the  English  Gt>vemment.  In  the  thirteenth  century 
Thomas  Stanley  was  Constable  of  the  Castle  of  Drogheda. 
In  1309  Henry  de  Stanleye  sued  out  a  possessory  writ.  In 
1371  John  de  Stanley  was  summoned  from  Louth  to  a  Great 
Council,  and  when  Bobert  de  Yere  Marquess  of  Dublin, 
obtained  the  extraordinary  grant  of  Ireland  from  Bichard 
the  Second,  and  the  assignment  of  Boyal  prerogatives  to  him, 
this  John  de  Stanley  acted  as  his  Deputy  in  1385,  as  he  did 
subsequently  on  four  other  several  occasions.  He  it  was  who, 
on  the  forfeiture  of  Henry  Percy,  Earl  of  Northumberland, 
obtained  a  grant  in  fee  from  the  Crown  of  the  Isle  of  Man, 


♦  Croegfy^s  Peerage^  p.  260.  f  Oent,  Mag,,  ad.  aim. 


74  KSNQ  JfAMSa'B  IBJ8H  ABHT  LIST. 

Mrith  all  its  legalities  and  fianchisias,  to  hcid  by  homage  and 
the  servioe  of  two  Mcons,  to  be  rendered  to  the  Sjog,  h]9 
heirs  and  soooea^prSi  on  the  days  of  their  coronatkm.  He  ma 
afterwards  constituted  Constable  of  Windsor  Cattle,  made  a 
Knight  of  the  Garter  by  Henry  V.,  and  died  in  1413,  Lord 
Lieutenant  of  Ireland  for  the  last  time.  Sir  William  Stanley, 
Sir  John's  brother,  was  Lord  Deputy  in  1401 ;  and  in  1433 
•gir  Thomas,  grandson  of  Sir  John  Stapleyi  was  appwited 
Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland  &7  si^  years*  About  the  year 
1530  Sir  James^  Stanley,  of  the  same  Derby  stock  as  iJie 
before-mentioned  Stapleys,  was  Marshal  of  Xrelaud. 

In  1593  Patrick  Stanley  rsndejs^  militaiy  service  with  an 
archer  on  horseback,  fully  equippedi  at  the  hostiog  of  Tacas 
aifd,  in  five  years  after,  Richard  Stanley,  of  his  fiuooily,  styled 
of  Fennor,  in  Meath,  died,  leaving  Walter  his  son  and  heir, 
then  aged  twelve;  a  Funeral  Entry  in  the  office  of  Arms 
records  the  death,  in  1636,  of  Thomas  his  spn  and  hdbr, 
adding  that  he  had  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Patrick 
Gemon  of  Gemonstown,  County  of  Louth,  by  whom  he  bsjd 
daughters.  In  1666  Sir  Thomas  Stanley,  Knight,  had  9> 
confirmatory  giant  of  9,155  acres  in  Munster,  and  39S  in 
Leinster;  he  died  in  August,  1694,  and  was  buried  in  St 
Michan's  Church)  Dublin. 

The  abpve  Captain,  though  not  ci  Walter's  issue,  appeaxp 
to  have  been  of  the  Fennor  fiimily,  the  son  of  Edward,  the 

third  son  of Stanley  of  Fennor,  by  Anne,  daughter  of 

— ^  Sterne  of  Great  Ecdeston  in  Kent*  He  had  been 
Sheriff  of  the  County  of  Dublin  in  1688,  and  a  rendent  of 
Swords,  of  whidi  ancient  Borough  he  was  constituted  one  of 
the  Burgesses  in  King  James's  Charter  of  1689.     In  hi^ 


*  (kiMolofkal  MSS.  CoOectian  m  Trm.  Coll  DtA.  (F.  S,  27.) 


sawltok's  nnrurtEY.  75 

attainder  of  1691,  he  ie  described  as  of  that  place;  while 
another  Stanley  (ThomaB)  ib  located,  on  the 
of  Martinetown,  County  of  Louth. 


CAPTAIN  NICHOLAS  HARROLD. 

This  ftmily  name,  introdnoed  into  Ireland  on  the  Danish 
invaaon,  iqypears  eubeeqnently  of  fireqnent  oecuirenoe  in  the 
records  of  this  conntry.  In  1234  John  ^  Harald'  was  Sheriff 
of  Wateiford,  and  in  1802  John  '  Haiald'  and  G^ofl&ey 
*  Harold'  were  of  the  Magnates  of  Ireland,  whom  King 
Edward  invited  to  assist  him  in  the  invasion  of  Scotland.  In 
1355  John  Harold  was  one  of  the  influential  gentry  of  the 
County  of  Limerick^  who  elected  Thomas  de  Daundon, 
Knight,  to  its  Shrievalty;  and  in  1374  Thomas  Harold  was 
Constable  of  the  imp<»tant  Castle-Mac-Einn^an,  on  the 
marches  of  the  O'Bymes'  country.  In  the  seventeenth 
century  the  Harolds  were  established  in  the  Counlies  of 
ddare,  Widdow,  Dublin,  and  Limeridc;  accordingly  the 
Attainders  of  1642  |»esent  the  names  of  Qerald  Harcddof 
EUdrought  (Celbridge),  County  of  Ejldare;  Bichard  Harold 
of  Sjlhele,  Do. ;  Thomas  Harold  of  Coolnehamon,  County  of 
Widdow;  and  William  of  Kilmaceogue,  County  of  Dublin. 
John  Harold  was  one  of  five  tried  by  court  martial  in  St: 
Patrick's  Cathedral,  Dublin,  on  the  18th  May,  1652.*  In 
1676  Thomas  Harold,  *  a  native  of  Irdand,'  solicited  the 
interference  of  King  Charles  in  his  behalf;  he  having  been 
confined  in  Brussek  ten  years  *  for  reosting  the  Pope's  claim 


*  Mmutes  afOourts  Martial  during  the  CommonweaUh^  MS. 


76  KING  JAMES'S  TBJSB,  ABHT  LIST. 

as  to  his  aU^ianoe,  and  for  his  having  been  one  of  the 
subscribers  to  the  Bemonstranoe  of  1661.** 

Besides  the  above  Captain,  there  stands  on  this  Army 
List  William  Harold,  a  Lieutenant  in  Major-Greneral  Boisse- 
lean's  Lifiuitry.  In  the  Parliament  of  Dublin,  Alderman 
Thomas  Harold  was  one  of  the  Bepresentatives  of  the  City 
of  Limerick;  he  was  consequently  attainted  with  Walter 
Harold  of  Limerick,  merchant,  and  the  above  Nicholas 
Harold,  styled  of  Ealmaceogue,  County  of  Dublin,  a  lineal 
descendant  of  William  Harold  who  was  attainted  in  1642. 
A  John  Harold,  described  as  of  the  same  locality,  Irish 
papist^  then  also  forfeited  estates  there. 


CAPTAIN  EDMUND  MUBPHY. 

The  Murphys,  or  OTtfurphys,  were  a  Sept  very  widely 
extended  over  Ireland,  as  even  the  few  records  here  noted 
will  evince.  This  Officer  was  of  Kilkenny,  in  whose 
Cathedral  are  monuments  to  his  family  from  1640  to  1741. 
So  early  after  the  introduction  of  surnames  in  Ireland  as 
1031,  the  death  of  Flaherty  O'Murroghoe  (Murphy),  Chief 
of  Cinel-Breaghain,  in  the  County  of  Donegal,  is  recorded  by 
the  Masters,  as  is  that  of  O'Murroghoe,  Chief  Sage  of  Lein- 
ster  in  1127.  In  1451  John  *  Morphy'  was  fined  for  not 
attending  the  Parliament  of  Drogheda,  to  which  he  had  been 
summoned  as  proctor  for  a  Beligious  House.  The  Attain- 
ders of  1642  name  Michael  Murphy  of  Balruddery,  and 
Laughlin  Murphy  of  Dunganstown;  George  of  St.  Michan's 

*  Cold.  Southwell  MSS.^  p.  60. 


HAMILTON'S  INEANTBY.  77 

Parish,  Dublin,  idth  Donogh  and  Connor  Murphy  of  Blameyt 
Coonty  of  Cork.  In  1654  a  Colonel  of  this  name,  at  the 
head  of  800  Irishmen,  distinguished  himself  in  the  campaign 

in  Spain. ^Besides  the  above  Captain  there  appear  on  this 

Army  list,  in  Lord  Kenmare's  Infantry,  Murphy,  a 

Major ;  in  the  Earl  of  Tyrone's,  Nicholas  and  Michael  Murphy, 

Lieutenants; — ^in  Colonel  John  Grace's,  Murphy,  a 

Lieutenant; — in  Lord  Bellew's,  Owen  and  Bryan  Captains, 
Phelim  and  Denis  Lieutenants,  and  John  Murphy,  an  Ensign ; 
— in  Colonel  Nicholas  Browne's,  William  Murphy  was  a 
Captain,  Maurice  Murphy  his  Lieutenant,  and  John  Murphy, 

Ensign.    In  Lord  Kilmallock's, Murphy  was  an  Ensign. 

Those  attainted  in  1692  were  the  above  Captain  Edmund, 
styled  of  Kilkenny,  with  two  others  of  the  name  there,  seven 
in  Wexford,  six  in  Louth,  four  in  Cork,  three  in  Down,  two 
in  Armagh,  and  one  in  Waterford,  Clare,  and  Queen's 
Coontiee  respectivdy. 

In  the  Brigades  commiseioned  in  the  French  service,  of 
that  styled  the  'Begiment  of  Charlemont,'  commanded  by 
Grordon  O'NdU  on  its  first  formation,  the  above  Captain 
Edmund  Murphy  was  constituted  Major,  while  a  Cornelius 
Murphy  was  Major  of  the  ]^giment  of  Clancarfy.*  At  the 
Court  of  Claims  in  1700,  Maria  de  Margarita  '  de  Murphy ' 
daimed  the  benefit  of  a  judgment  debt  afiecting  the  estates 
of  Donogh,  Earl  of  Clancarfy,  but  her  petition  was  dismist. 
The  Archives  of  Bruges  record  a  Darby  ^Morphy,'  Captain- 
Lieutenant  in  Lord  Hunsdon's  In&ntry  as  hereafter  noticed; 
and  in  St.  Donat's  Cathedral  of  that  City  is  a  monument  to 
the  Beverend  and  Venerable  John  Albert  ^de  Morphy,'  <of 

*  CtConoi's  MSUU,  Mem,  p.  199.  For  addevemeats  of  thifl  name  in  the 
Brigadea,  see  idem,  p.  73. 


78^  KING  JAMBS'S  IBIfiH  ASXY  UST. 

tbe  Boyal  Sept  of  O'Morrongh,  whieh  had  pyen  Kings  to 
Lemster/  while  hioiaelf  had  been  imprisoned  in  London, 
driven  into  exile,  found  an  asylum  at  Bruges,  wheie  he  was 
constituted  'Penitentiaty'  of  the  Piocese,  and  died  ISth 
November,  1745  * 


CAPTAIN TRESS. 

Kettheb  this  surname  nor  that  of  Tnu^,  for^wlueh  it  seems 
to  have  been  intended,  is  to  be  found  on  the  Bolls  of  Attain- 
ders of  1691. 


CAPTAIN  JAMES  GIBBONS. 

A Gibbons  was  also  a  Captain  in  Sir  John  Fitzgerald's 

Infimtry,  and  another  of  the  name  was  Lieutenant  in  Colonel 
Owen  MaoCartie's,  while  a  fourth  ^-^-^  Gibbons  was  a  Captain 
in  Colonel  Clifford's  Dragoons.  On  the  Bolls  of  Attainders, 
those  of  1642  have  two  of  the  name,  and  those  of  1691  three. 
In  1667,  a  Cf^tain  Franois  Gibbons  passed  patent  for  1,428 
acres  in  Westmeath,  in  pursuance  of  a  Cromwellian  oertificate. 


LIEUTENANT  ANTHONY  COLEMAN. 

Thx  natire  Axmaiiste  of  Ireland  iiotice  at  a  very  enrly  age 
tbe  Sept  of  O'Colemam  aad  sometimes  of  Mao  Ci^Jmaa,  the 
latter  as  in  the  County  of  Louth,  where  the  name  is  still  of 

*  Nicholas's  Top^.  and  Oen\  1853,  p.  4M, 


HAMtLToir'i^  nrpAKniT.  79 

leqpeetafaility.  In  1206,  say  the  Four  Masters,  died  ^Maol- 
peddsr  O^Golemaai,  suooessor  of  Camoe  (Abbot  of  Ejlkenny), 
4ie  plkr  of  {»ety  and  irisdom  of  the  North  of  Ijeland.'  The 
BoUs  of  the  Irish  records  present  the  name  from  the  time  of 
Edirstfd  the  Second.  In  1642  were  attainted  John  Coleman 
of  Artoine  and  Patrick  Coleman  of  Eoll,  County  of  Dublin, 
-with  Anne  }^  "wife.  On  the  minates  of  courts  mariM  hdd 
m  St  Patrick's  Cathedral,  Dublin,  it  is  stated  that  an  Enogn 
Coleman  T^as  one  of  those  tried  there  on  the  9th  of  March, 
1651.  The  name  does  not  appear  at  all  on  the  Attainders  of 
1691,  ftc. 


LIEUTENANTS  ANDREW  AND  LAURENCE 

DUFFE. 

The  ODu£&  were  Chiefs  of  Hy  Cruinthain,  a  district 
extending  round  Dunamase  in  the  Queen's  County ;  and  the 
name  is  of  record  on  the  Irish  Rolls  of  Chancery  from  the 
days  of  Edward  the  Third. 

In  1600  died  Alderman  Thomas  DuBe  of  Drogheda, 
seised  of  premises  at  Termonfeckin  and  in  other  parts  of 
Louth ;  Greozge  Duffe  was  his  son  and  heir,  then  of  full  age 
and  married.  This  Alderman  had  three  other  sons,  Peter, 
Henry,  and  Stephen.  Said  George  dying  in  1611  $,  je>.,  his 
brother  Peter  succeeded  to  his  estates,  of  which  he  had  livery 
in  1615;  being  then  aged  30  and  unmarried;  and  he,  dying  in 
1618^  left  Thomas  his  son  and  heir,  aged  10  months,  who  died 
in  1631,  when  said  Henry,  his  uncle,  became  his  heir;  but  he 
also  dying  9^p*^  Stqphea  the  youngest  son  of  Aldecmaa 

Thomas  inherited  the  fiunily  propesrty. ^In  1611  Sr  Adam^ 

Loftus  had  the  wardship  of  Jasper,  son  and  heir  of  James 


80  KING  JAMESES  IBI8H  ABMT  LIBX. 

Duff,  ihen  late  of  Bobs,  in  Wexford,  deceased. On  the 

Attainders  of  1642  appear  Patrick  Duffe  of  Westpalstown, 
Henry  of  the  Ward,  Kichard  and  Cahill  of  Lnsk  and  Thomas 
of  Bush,  all  in  the  County  of  Dublin;  John  Duffe  of  Leixlip, 
Donogh  of  Naas,  clerk,  and  James  of  Clare  in  EUdare,  idth 
Bichard  Duffe  of  Oristown,  in  Meath.  At  the  Supreme 
Coundl  of  Kilkenny,  in  1647,  Patrick  Duff,  there  described 
as  of  Bospatrick,  but  probably  identical  idth  the  attainted 
Patrick'  of  Westpalstown,  was  of  the  Commons.*     Besides 

these  Lieutenants, Duffe  was  a  Lieutenant  in  Colonel 

Boger  Mac  Elligott*s  Li&ntry.  The  Attainders  of  1691 
name  only  Thady  *Duff'  of  Piltown,  County  of  Meaih; 
Thadeus  Duff  of  Athlone,  merchant;  Thadeus  Duff,  junior, 
of  Dublin ;  and  Thomas  Duff  of  Kilkenny,  merchant. 


LIEUTENANT MAGEE. 

This  name  was  introduced  to  Ireland  on  the  Plantation  of 

Ulster. John  Magee  of  Bathenny,  in  the  County  of 

Dublin,  was  a  forfeiting  proprietor  in  1642 ;  as  were  Cormuck 
Magee  of  Tullycool,  in  Down,  and  Patrick  Magee  of  Moy- 
dreston,  in  Cavan,  in  1691.  Alexander  Magee  was  a  pro- 
prietor in  Antrim  before  the  former  dvil  war.  He  died  in 
1637,  when  his  son  Daniel  succeeded  to  his  estate. 

*  The  compiler  of  these  lUuslnxtions  sinoerely  regrets  the  oocnrrence 
of  assertioiis  on  probability;  but  the  difficulty^  he  has  experienced  in 
obtaining  oodientie  family  information^  predndes  that  certainty,  which 
oould  be  otherwise  obtained,  only  from  his  own  manascripts,  at  a  laboor 
impracticable  gratoitooBly  for  so  many  somames. 


HAMILTON'S  USTPAKTRY.  81 


LIEUTENANT FORD. 

This  surname  originated  in  Devonshire,  and  was  early 
established  in  Ireland.  In  1333  Edmund  de  la  Forde  was 
Coroner  of  Meath.  In  1357  William  de  la  Forde  was  pre- 
sented to  a  living  in  that  County,  and  in  1402  John  Forde 
was  entrusted  with  the  custody  of  certain  lands  therein.  In 
the  subsequent  century  the  name  extended  over  the  eastern 
coast  of  Ireland,  through  Louth,  Down,  Wexford,  Antrim, 
and  Dublin.  In  the  time  of  Charles  the  Second  Sir  Henry 
Ford  was  on  two  occasions  Secretary  for  Ireland,  and  in  that 
xeign  the  Shrievalty  of  Drogheda  was  twice  filled  by  a  Ford. 
In  King  James's  Charters  of  1687,  John  Ford  was  an 
Alderman  in  that  to  Limerick,  as  was  Edward  Ford  in 
another  to  Navan.  Five  of  the  name  were,  however,  attainted 
in  the  Parliament  held  by  that  monarch  in  Dublin.  There 
was  of  this  name  outlawed  in  1641  Edward  '  Foord'  of  Leixlip 
only,  and  none  appear  on  the  Inquisitions  of  1691. 


ENSIGN  CHARLES  SANDERS. 

His  connections  are  unknown.      Comet  Thomas  Sanders 
was  one  of  the  *  1649'  officers  whose  claims  were  decreed. 


VOL.  II. 


82 


KING  James's  ibish  abmit  list. 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 


FITZ-JAMES'S  (the  LOBD  GBAKD  PRIOB.) 
[LIEUTENAKT-COLOKEL  THOICAS  GOBBET.] 


TheCdoneL 

Edward  Nnaenty 
Lieat-Gol 

Porter, 

liajor. 

Walter  *TineIL' 

HnghM'Mahoii.'l 
Jolm  Sutton.       j 

Christopher  Sherlock.) 
John  Wogan.  / 

Alezander  Knightley. 

John  Panton.      \ 
WiUiam  Moore.  / 

Le  Siemr  Goiridore. 

Thorn.  Jiuti^ 

Patrick  Kenddan. 

George  Coiridons, 
Granad. 

lieat-Golonel  Clonahlnge. 

IgnatioB  Usher. 

-—Savage. 

■  ■■  ■  Ronrite. 

Talbot 

—  Bfac  Swyny . 

—  MacGowran. 

Walsh. 

O'Brien 

—  Dempsey. 


Lieiilmemtt. 

James  ^BamwelL* 
John  Stepheoa. 

Catalier. 

Gairett  Plnnkett 
Christopher  Bellew. 

Chaika  Degnent 
Barthdlomeifr  White. 
King. 


Neale. 

{John  Heme. 
CUadins  Beauregard. 

Walter  Grace. 

Walter  Utfier. 

Dobin. 

-— .  Konrke. 

Mortimer 

Mac  Swyny. 

Keating. 


Pfam  Mownson. 
BartholonMW  Biad. 

Daniel  0*Daniel. 

lyrrelL 

.— ^Moigone. 

Matthew  Wak. 
F^taocia  Botie^ 
—  Wdventon. 


Beaghan  Kenddan. 

Edward  Rigney. 
Oliver  Grace. 
— —  Moschy. 
— —  Bonrke. 
— ^  Conway. 
.— ^  Doher^. 

Neale. 

CBrien. 

.— ^Donn. 


Rev. Neale,  Chtq>lian. 

Kennedy,  Surffeon, 


fitz-^amsb's  infanxbt.  83 


COLONEL  HENEY  FITZJAMES,  THE  LOBD 

GRAND  PRIOR 

TfiOB  officer  was  another  bob  of  King  James  by  his  mistress 
Arabella  Chondiill,  sister  of  the  great  Duke  of  Marlborough ; 
he  was  the  youngest  of  fiye  children  of  that  connection;  was 
bom  in  August,  1673;  accompanied  his  &ther  in  his  flight 
from  England,  and  after,  in  his  expedition  to  Ireland;  where, 
at  the  age  of  sixteen,  he  was  appointed  Colonel  of  this 
R^^iment,  thenceforward  known  by  his  name.  In  the  year 
of  the  appointment  of  Tyrconnel  to  the  Vice-Royalty  of 
Ireland,  Thomas  Thynne  (afterwards  Viscount  Weymouth) 
wrote  to  Robert  Southwell,  'Aiter  all  we  heard  of  Mr. 
Pitz-James*s  being  made  Duke  of  Dublin,  it  seems  he  came 
not  out  of  France  till  this  week,  so  that  we  are  to  expect 
what  laurels  he  will  be  crowned  with,  and  from  whose  head 
taken.' 

He,  after  distinguishing  himself  at  Derry,  headed  this 
Regiment  at  the  battle  of  the  Boyne,  but  retired  with  his 
&ther,  immediately  after,  to  France.  This  his  Raiment, 
which  was  consigned  to  the  command  of  Nicholas  Fitzgerald,^ 
signalized  itself  throughout  the  first  nege  of  Limerick,  and 
especially  along  with  that  of  Major-General  Boisseleau,  the 
French-General,  at  the  successful  resistance  of  the  assault  of 
the  6th  of  September,  1690,  which  led  to  the  raising  of  the 
fliege  by  Sling  William.  The  Grand  Prior  was  in  1696, 
in  France  placed  oyer  the  Toulon  fleet  designed  to  invader 
England,  at  yrhkh  time   O'Callaghan  conjectures  he  was 


84  Kura  James's  ibish  abmt  list. 

created  Duke  of  Albemarle.  In  December,  1702,  lie  was 
appointed  Lieutenant-General  of  the  Marine,  and  in  the  same 
month  died  at  Bagnols  in  Langaedoc,  aged  only  between  29 
and  30.  Louis  the  Fourteenth  placed  the  Court  of  France  in 
mourning  on  his  decease.* 

He  had  married  the  only  daughter  of  the  Comte  de  Lussan 
(first  gentleman  of  the  bed-chamber  to  the  Prince  of  Cond^), 
a  lady  whose  fortune  was  the  largest  in  France,  but  by  her  he 
left  no  children.  Having  been  originally  designed  for  the 
British  Navy,  he  had  entered  that  of  France  on  his  father's 
dethronement,  and  actually  distinguished  himself  at  sea  under 
TourviUe  in  the  engagement  at  St.  Vincent  against  the  Eng- 
lish Admiral  Sir  George  Booke  in  1693.t  His  Regiment, 
after  his  decease,  changed  its  name  from  Albermarle's  to  that 
of  Fitzgerald,  its  previous  Colonel. 


LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  THOMAS  CORBET. 

See  of  him  ante  p.  196-7,  where  he  is  noticed  as  he  then 
ranked  in  the  earlier  muster,  a  Major  in  the  Earl  of 
Abercom^s  Horse. 


MAJOR PORTER. 

The  name  of  Porter  is  of  record  on  the  Irish  Rolls  firom  the 
time  of  Edward  the  Third.  In  the  forty-eighth  year  of  that 
reign  John  Porter,  who  had  received  a  grant  of  the  custody  of 

*  (/Cattaghan*$  Irish  Brigades^  voL  1  p.  876.  f  /(fern,  p.  210. 


FITZ-JAMES'S  IKFANTBT.  85 

the  maoor  of  Dysert  in  Meath,  made  complaint  of  opposition 
to  his  enjoyment  and  duties  from  the  Bishop  of  that  Diocese, 
who  was  thereupon  ordered  to  answer  his  charges.  This  John 
was  at  the  same  time  commissioned  to  purvey  provirions  for 
the  establishment  of  the  Deputy's  household.  In  1382  Bobert 
Porter  was  a  Justice  in  eyre;  and,  in  1408,  William  Porter 
was  seised  of  the  townland  in  the  County  of  Dublin  called 
from  him  Porterstown,  while  Nicholas  Porter  gave  the  same 
name  to  another  in  the  Barony  of  Satoath  in  Meath.  The 
attainders  of  1642  present  of  this  name  only  Bichard  Porter  of 
Oldbridge  in  the  latter  County.  John  Porter  had  in  1677  a 
confirmatory  grant  of  971  acres  in  Mayo.  He  was  probably 
the  Quarter-Master  John  Porter,  who  had  an  adjudication  in 
li^t  of  a  '1649'  Officer.  In  1686  Sir  Charles  Porter  was 
appointed  Lord  Chancellor  of  Ireland ;  he  was  afterwards 
removed  for  Sir  Alexander  Fitton,  but  was  restored  at  the 
close  of  1690,  on  the  Revolution.  In  the  Parliament  of  1689 
Sobert  Porter  was  one  of  the  Bepresentatives  of  the  County 
of  Ejldare,  as  was  John  Porter  of  the  City  of  Waterford,  and 
Colonel  James  Porter  of  the  Borough  of  Fethard,  County  of 
Wexford. 

The  above  Major,  whose  Christian  name  does  not  appear  on 
this  roll,  was,  it  may  be  presumed,  the  Colonel  James,  Member 
for  Fethard  in  1689,  as  he  was  early  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
second  Lieutenant-Colonel  in  this  B^ment,  Dodsley  having 
been  substituted  in  the  Majority.  He  was  in  France  at  the 
time  of  the  battle  of  the  Bojme,  on  the  day  previous  to  which 
he  wrote  from  St.  Grermains  to  Father  Warner, '  confessor  to 
the  King  in  Dublin,'  a  letter*  in  which  he  says,  "  the  dreadful 
fleet  of  France  has  got  into  the  ChanneL    We  may  daily 

*  Sou&weU  MSS.  CbtoLp.  179. 


86  KIK0  JAMBS'S  IBIBH  ABMT  LIST. 

expect  strange  changes,  and  with  reason;  we  may  expect  to 
see  our  Boyal  Master  in  Whitehall  before  Michaelmas.  We 
are  sending  a  fleet  of  thirty  frigates  for  Ireland:  after  such 

preparations,  what  may  we  not  expect?" ^When  that  Boyal 

Master  had  fled  to  France,  this  Colonel  Porter  was  made  Vioe- 
Chamberlain  in  his  titular  Court  *  The  Attainders  of  1691 
include  his  name  as  of  Feathard,  with  Patrick  Porter  of 
EjuQgstown  and  William  of '  Jon^unstown,'  County  of  Meath ; 
Bobert  Porter  of  Kildare,  and  Nicholas  Porter  of  Waterford, 
merchant,  who  was  Mayor  of  that  city  in  1689 ;  his  forfi^tures 
eonsbted  of  premises  in  that  city,  all  which  were  purchased 

from  the  Trustees  by  Alderman  Lapp  in  1703. Some  links 

of  the  descent  of  the  Porters  of  Waterford  are  preserved  in  a 
manuscript  book  of  Obits  in  Trinity  College,  (F.  3.  27), 
denying  them  from  Gloucestershire. 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  SUTTON. 

This  fiunily  was  established  in  Ireland  at  a  yery  remote 
period.  In  1302,  Gilbert  de  Sutton  was  one  of  the  Magnates 
of  tins  country  whom  Edward  the  First  inyited  to  aid  him  in 
the  Scottish  war.  In  1324  Herbert '  de  Suttoun'  was  Sheriff 
of  Meath,  and  afterwards  Constable  of  Athlone.  Early  in  the 
rrign  of  Edward  the  Third,  the  estates  of  Thomas  de  Sutton, 
in  Kildare,  were,  upon  his  decease,  committed  to  the  custody 
of  John  de  Wellesleye,  to  hold  during  the  minority  of  John, 
son  and  heir  of  said  Thomas.  In  1357  Gerald  de  Sutton  was 
one  of  those,  appointed  by  the  Crown,  to  assess  and  apportion 

*  darkens  Jame$  IL^  yoL  2,  p.  411. 


FITZ-JAHBS'S  INFA2fTBT.  87 

»  hosting  in  that  County.  In  1384  Sobert  Sntton  was  a 
Justice  in  eyrty  in  1401  he  was  Chief  Baron  of  the  Exchequer, 
and  in  seyen  years  after  was  keeper  of  the  Great  Seal.  Henry 
the  Fifth,  in  the  first  year  of  his  reign,  conunitted  to  William 
Sutton,  derk,  the  custody  of  the  estate  of  Philip  D*Arcy, 
knight,  to  hold  during  the  minority  of  John,  son  and  heir  of 
said  Philip.  In  1428  John  Sutton,  knight,  was  Justiciary  of 
Ireland,  at  which  time  he  led  an  army  against  the  O'Bymes. 
In  1431  WiHiam  Sutton,  juni(Hr,  had  a  grant  of  the  Chief 
Seijeantcy  of  Meath.  A  genealogical  manuscript  in  Trinity 
CoU^e,  Dublin  (F.  iii.  27),  traces  links  of  Suttons^  pedigree 
for  five  generations,  in  the  16th  and  17th  centuries. 

In  1605  John  Lye,  gentleman,  servant  to  Queen  Elizabeth, 
had  a  grant  from  her  Boyal  successor  of  the  towns,  lands,  &c., 
of  Bathlnide,  Morristown-Biller,  Belickstown,  &c.,  parcel  of 
the  estate  of  David  Sutton  in  the  County  of  Kildare,  the  pa- 
tentee being  bound  to  keep  upon  Bathbrlde  one  able  horseman, 
archer,  or  ^  hargabusher,'  of  the  English  nation,  su£Bdentiy 
furnished  for  the  defence  of  Ireland.     The  aboye  Gerald,  son 
and  heir  of  Grilbert,  who  was  in  1631  aged  but  eight  years,  was 
in  1642  attainted,  with  Laurence  and  Nicholas  Sutton  of 
Tipper  in  the  same  County,  who  were  a  branch  of  the  stock. 
Of  this  estate  of  Tipper,  Barbyestown,  <&c.,  County  of  Kildare, 
and  other  lands  in  Wexford,  a  William  Sutton  died  s^sed  in 
1592,  leaving  John  his  son  and  hdr,  who  succeeded  to  same, 
bat  they  were  forfeited  in  1642  by  the  attainder  of  his  son 
William  Sutton,  junior.    This  William  was  one  of  the  Con- 
federate Catholics  at  the  Supreme  Council  of  Kilkenny  in 
1646,  and  he  would  seem  to  have  been  fiither  to  the  above 
Captain  John,  in  whose  fiwour  a  saving  was  reserved  in  a  pa- 
UsDit  of  lands  in  the  County  of  Galway  to  William  Clynch. 
He  was,  in  1691,  attainted  by  the  description  of  John  Sutton 


88  KING  JAMESES  IBISH  ABMT  I«I8T. 

of  Halyerston,  County  of  Kildare,  together  with  five  other 
Suttons  in  the  County  of  Wexford,  and  one  in  the  Citj  of 
Dublin.  At  the  Court  of  Chichester  House,  Bridget  Sutton, 
in  1700,  claimed  and  was  allowed  her  jointure  off  the  Kildare 
estate  of  this  Captain  Sutton,  which  was  sold  by  the  Com^ 
missioners  of  the  Forfeitures  in  1703  to  the  Hollow  Swords 
Blades*  Company. 


CAPTAIN  CHKISTOPHER  SHERLOCK. 

This  &mily  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of  the 
Tudors.  They  were  located  in  the  Barony  of  Coshmore^ 
County  of  Waterford,  as  also  in  the  Counties  of  Tipperary, 
Limerick,  Dublin,  and  Kildare.  In  1422  the  King  appointed 
Walter  *  Sherloke'  to  be  Chief  Sergeant  of  the  County  of 
Kildare,  an  office  which  he  held  for  several  years  af^r.  In 
1431  he  had  an  order  on  the  Irish  Exchequer  for  remune- 
rating his  great  labours  in  the  County  of  Kilkenny  and  its 
marches.  In  1499  James  '  Sherloke'  was  Justice  in  eyre.  In 
1586  an  inquisition  post  mortem  was  held  of  the  estates  of 
John  Sherlock  of  Ballyclerihan,  in  the  County  of  Cross-Tip- 
perary,  when  it  was  found  that,  at  the  time  of  his  death,  he 
was  sdsed  of  a  castle  and  sundiy  lands  and  premises  there, 
and  that  Patrick  Sherlock,  his  son  and  heir,  was  then  aged 
three  years.  In  1609  King  James  granted  to  James  Sher- 
lock, of  Grace  Dieu,  in  Waterford,  that  he  and  his  heirs 
should  hold  the  demesne  lands  of  Templeicarrick,  Ballydavid, 
and  Bathmoylan,  in  said  County,  discharged  of  all  assessments. 
In  the  following  year,  John,  son  and  executor  of  Patrick 
Sherlock  of  St  Catherine's,  near  Waterford,  made  a  lease  for 


FITZ-JAMES'S  INFANTRT.  89 

jear&y  to  Piers  son  of  William  Aylward,  of  the  Preceptory 
of  Edlvir,  with  all  its  possessions. 

In  1616  Thomas  Sherlock  of  '  the  Naas'  was  one  of  the 
Comity  of  Kildare  gentry  impannelled  to  hold  a  post  mortem 
inquiiy  y  as  to  the  estates  of  Walter  Wellesley  of  the  Norragh, 
then  lately  deceased.  This  Thomas  was  attainted  in  1642,  as 
were  Edward  Sherlock  of  Blackhall  in  the  same  Comiiy ,  derk, 
and  George  Sherlock  of  Wicklow,  merchant.  In  the  confir- 
matory patents  of  King  Charles  the  Second  to  the  adventurers 
in  Waterford  were  savings  of  the  rights  of  Paul,  heir  of  Sir  ' 
Thomas  Sherlock;  which  Paul  had  in  1614  the  grant  of  a 
wardship  from  the  Crown;  while,  in  the  following  year,  John, 
son  of  James  Sherlock  of  Waterford,  had  a  grant  of  the 
wardship  of  John  Sherlock,  son  and  heir  of  George  Sherlock, 
knight,  deceased.  In  1670  William  Sherlocke  had  a  confir- 
matory grant  of  239  acres  in  Tipperary,  as  had  Paul  Sherlock 
in  1679  of  2,940  acres  in  Waterford. 

In  1684,  18th  May,  died  Philip  Sherlock  of  Littlerath,  son 
of  Christopher  of  that  place ;  he  was  buried  on  the  20th  at 
Bowdingstown  in  the  same  Coimty,  leaving  issue  by  his  wife 
Elizabeth  (daughter  of  William  Eustace*)  the  above  Captain 
Christopher  his  eldest  son,  Eustace,  Bobert,  John,  William, 
and  Edward,  his  younger  sons,  and  Hester  and  Mary  his 
two  daughters.  The  estate,  having  descended  to  Christopher, 
was  forfeited  on  his  attainder,  subject  to  the  charges  which 
the  will  of  his  &ther  created  for  the  younger  children.  The 
testator^s  widow  intermarried  with  Nicholas  Adams,  while 
t>f  her  children  by  Sherlock,  Bober£  and  Maiy  died  under 
age,  and  Edward  the  youngest  was  long  resident  in  Corfu.f 
He  was  a  claimant  for  his  portion  on  the  fiunily  estate,  as 


*  FkmmU  Entry,  Berm,  Tower.      \  MSS.  in  MarshU  lAbrary,  DMin. 


90  KING-  JAMBB'S  IBISH  ABICT  USX. 

were  his  brothers,  John  and  Wmiam,  and  their  rights 
were  allowed.     Besides  Captain  Christopher,  there  are  on 

this   list  Sherlock,   a    Captain    in   Charles  Moore's 

InjGmtry,  with  Thomas  Sheriock  of  Blackhall,  a  Cs^tain 
and  Robert  Sherlock,  an  Ensign  in  Sir  Maurice  Eustace's. 
Edward  fflieriock  of  Blackball,  possibly  the  same  individual 
who  was  attainted  in  1642,  was  one  of  the  Bepresentatives 
of  the  Borough  of  Cloughmine  in  Ejng  James's  Pariia^ 
ment  of  1689.  He  was  consequentiiy  attainted  in  1691 
with  said  Thomas,  John  Sherlock  of  Lady's  Castle,  Laurence 
and  Eustace  Sherlock  of  Littlerath,  all  in  said  County 
of  Kildare;  Robert  Sherlock  of  Carlow  (the  Enfilgn  in 
Sir  Maurice  Eustace's)  and  James,  Pierce,  and  Balthazzar 
^erlock  of  Ballykenny  and  Ballyleigh,  County  of  Watford. 
In  1694  Thomas  Sherlodc,  a  merchant  of  Lish  birth,  thereto- 
fore trading  in  Dublin,  but  then  a  merchant  at  Bouen  in 
France,  obtained,  under  circumstances  of  expatriation,  detailed 
in  his  petition,  full  pardon  and  liberty  to  return  to  his  native 
country. 


CAPTAIN  ALEXANDER  KNIGHTLEY. 
CAPTAIN  JOHN  PANTON. 

NOTHiNa  worthy  of  note  has  been  ascertained  of  either  of 
these  officers  or  their  fiunilies,  in  connexion  with  this  periods 
A  Ludovick '  Ponton,'  described  as  of  Newtown  in  the  County 
Widdow,  was  however  attainted  in  1642. 


FITZ-JAMfiS'S  niFAKTBr  91 


CAPTAIN  PATRICK  KENDELAN. 

Thb  0*Caendelain  were  Tanlsts  of  Leogaire  in  Meath,  of 
which  Donell  O'Caendelaine,  died  lord  in  1017,  as  did  Angus 
O'Caendebdn  in  1085.  After  the  English  invanon  this  sur- 
name is  recorded  bereft  of  its  Irish  prefix,  as  in  Kerry,  where 
Thomas,  son  of  Henry  *Candelan',  was  one  of  the  influential 
proprietors  appointed  to  assess  a  state  subsidy  in  1358.  About 
the  same  time  David  Candelan  was  seised  of  estates  in  Kil- 
kenny. In  1635  died  Edward  <  Kindelan'  of  BaUynakin  in 
Meath,  leaving  Vaughan  Kindelan,  his  son  and  heir,  aged 
thirty-five  and  inarried,  tAo  died  in  the  following  year,  leaving 
Edwacrd  Klndelan,  junior,  his  son  and  heir,  then  aged  eleven 
years. 

The  o£Bcer  here  commissioned  was  of  Ballynakill,  by  which 
description  lie  was  attainted,  with  tiiree  others  of  his  kindred 
there,  Edward,  Vaughan,  and  John  Kendelan. 


CAPTAIN  IGNATIUS  USHER. 

Ik  Lord  Slane%  Segiment  of  Infimtry ,  Walter  Usher  was  an 
Ensign,  bnt  nothing  of  note  touching  this  period  has  been 
discovered  of  either  of  these  officers.  It  may  however  be  men- 
tioned that  a  John  Usher  died  in  1600,  seised  of  a  castle  and 
lands  at  Tr^hns  in  Meath,  leaving  Walter  his  son  and  heir 
tbesL  twelve  years  old.  Bichaxd  Usher  of  Tathxath  in  that 
Coimty  waa  attainted  in  1642 ;  while  in  1667  Beverly  Usher 
had  a  grant  of  1,295  acres  in  Cork,  as  had  Sir  William  Usher 


92  KING  JAKBS'S  IBISH  ARMY  LIST. 

of  251  in  Wicklow.  This  Beverly  Usher,  by  the  style  of  a 
Lieutenant-Colonel,  appears  on  the  '  1649 '  officers'  adjudica^ 
lions,  as  does  Lieutenant  Henry  Usher. 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  STEPHENS. 

Of  this  name  it  can  only  be  said  that  Captain  John  and 
Lieutenant  William  Stephens  appear  on  the  Boll  of  the 
*  1649 '  Officers,  and  that  in  1690  Sir  Bichard  Stephens  was 
appointed  a  Justice  of  the  King's  Bench  in  L^land,  while  a 
Thomas  Stephens,  described  as  of  Ballyvaughan,  County  of 
Limerick,  was  the  only  one  of  the  name  then  attainted. 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  HEENE, 

This  officer,  whose  name  should  have  been  spelt  Hemy,  was 
one  of  tiie  six  clerks  in  King  Jameses  Chancery. 


LIEUTENANT MORTIMER. 

RiCHAED  and  Henry  Mortimer  of  Drogheda,  the  latter 
described  as  merchant,  were  the  only  individuals  of  this  once 
illustrious  name,  who  forfeited  in  1691.  The  available  historic 
notices  for  its  illustration  cannot  be  here  introduced;  it  may 
only  be  noted  that  a  Captain  William  and  Lieutenants  David 
and  John  Mortimer,  appear  on  the  Roll  of  the  ^  1649  ^  officers. 


nrz-JAHBS's  mvAJsmr.  93 


ENSIGN  PHILL  MOWNSON, 
ENSIGN  EDWARD  RIGNEY. 

No  notice  of  either  of  these  officers,  worthy  of  insertion,  has 
been  obtained. 


ENSIGN  BARTHOLOMEW  READ. 

The  name  of  Read  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of 
the  English  invasion.  In  1308  David  le  Rede  sued  out  a 
possessory  writ,  as  did  John  le  Rede  in  the  ensuing  year,  and 
Nicholas  le  Rede  in  1325.  Robert  le  Rede  was  collector  of  a 
state  subddy  from  the  county  of  Limerick  in  1357.  In  1371 
the  Sheriff  of  the  Crosses  of  Meath  was  directed  to  summon  to 
a  Grreat  Council  in  Dublin,  from  amongst  otiiers  of  his  baili- 
wick, Richard  Rede,  who  was  in  1394  a  Justice  in  eyre^ 
afterwards  Chief  Baron  of  the  Exchequer  and  Chief  Justice 
of  the  Common  Pleas  in  succession.  In  1399,  on  the  security 
of  Thomas  Rede  of  Dublin,  and  others,  the  King  committed 
to  Philip  Rede  the  custody  of  certain  premises  in  TuUaghcopp, 
Leracorre,  and  the  moor  of  Dengyn.  In  1422  Richard  Rede 
had  a  grant  of  the  custody  of  various  lands  in  the  Counties  of 
Meath  and  Louth;  while  Thomas  Rede  and  Alicia  his 
wife  then  held  lands  in  the  former  County,  as  did  John  Rede 
in  the  Barony  of  Ratoath. 

In  1631  Richard  Reade  died  seised  of  lands  in  Meath, 
leaving  Martin  Reade  his  couon  and  next  heir,  then  aged 
fifteen.    In  1642  Martin  Reade  of  Scurlockstown  in  that 


94  KINO  /AKBSVl  IBtiB,  ABUT  LIST. 

Counlyy  wae  attainted ;  and  in  1666  Major  John  Bead  had 
a  confirmatorj  grant  of  6,069  acres  in  Cork. 
Beade  was  one  of  the  *  1649  ^  officers. 


,  ENSIGN DUNN. 

The  O^Dunns  were  an  anient  Sept  of  the  Queen^s  County, 
where  in  1427  died  Boderic  O'Dunn,  Chief  of  Hy  Biagain. 
The  Christian  name  of  this  officer  is  untold  on  the  British 
Museum  List,  but  an  inquisition,  taken  at  Maryborough  on 
Terence  Dunn,  suggests  that  to  have  been  the  Ensign's  name; 
while  Sir  Bernard  Burke,  in  a  sketch  of  the  Brittas  fiunily  in 
his  Landed  Gentry ^  says  that  Charles  Dunn^  of  that  line,  was 
killed  at  the  Battle  of  Aughiim. 


liOBD  ]COCNTCA8H£I.*8  XKFANTST. 


9& 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 


COLONEL  JUSTIN  MAOABTT'S,  NOW  LOBD  HODNTCA8HKL. 


Co^p^tamM, 

Ztim^sfiantt. 

JS^w^. 

TheColoiieL 

Dominick  Terry. 

James  Fitzgerald. 

Ueut-CoL 

i^^RotZi, 

—  Cheren. 

Roth. 

M^or. 

Garrat  nt^flfald. 

Anliflh  CallAghaa. 

PUlip  Bainy  c(p«. 

Johm  Hanivaa. 

Edward  Fitsgerald. 

<— Ivone. 

IGleBGaxToU. 

Patiiek  Layallm. 

Thomas  Power. 

Lewis  Moore. 

Redmond  Condon. 

Ulick  Brown*. 

Thomas  Hogan. 

Teigoe  H^Cartj. 

ChulflB  FitzgmUd. 

Robert  Fltsgerald. 

WilHam  White. 

JofanHoflcaa, 
Gnnao. 

i  Walter  Bxyan. 
iDonogh  MtCarty, 

Richard  Condon. 

Hanrioe  Fieri. 

Patrick  •  Pairs.' 

Kennedy  0*Biyan. 

John  Ryan. 

John  Ryan. 

Tfaady  (VConnor. 

JohnMally. 

Philip  Connor. 

Daly. 

«— —  Hacarty. 

— — »  M esgber. 

—- Cnsaek. 

— —  Comyn. 

^^B^v "  e  ^^^^^^^^^*  ^h^  vBmwv^^v    ^^v^hmb^^mi^^^pwp 

— —  Owen.  Ameon. 

96  KINO  JA3fES'S  TBSSEL  ABMT  LIST. 


COLONEL  JUSTIN  MACARTY. 

The  native  Ammls  record  that  in  the  third  century  Oilioll 
Ollamh,  King  of  Munster,  directed  that  the  govemment  of 
this  Province  should,  on  his  decease,  be  divided  between  his 
sons  Edgar  Mor  and  Cormac  Cas :  that  to  the  former  should 
belong  Desmond  or  Southern  Munster,  to  the  latter  Thomond 
or  Northern  Munster.  Cormac  Cas  became  thereupon  the 
founder  of  the  Dalcassian  or  O'Brien  race,  of  whom  see  ante  p. 
352,  &c.,  while  Eogan  (i,e.  Owen)  was  progenitor  of  the  Mac 
Carthy  dynasty.  The  aforesaid  Annals,  especially  those  of 
Innisfallen,  abound  with  records  of  the  patriotism  and  perse- 
verance, with  which  this  noble  Sept  of  the  Macartys  laboured 
to  resist  the  early  invasion  of  the  Danes,  until  they  were  at 
length  induced  to  tolerate  their  settling  for  commercial  pur- 
poses in  the  province  of  which  they  were  so  constituted  rulers. 
When  Henry  the  Second  landed  at  Waterford,  Mac  Carty, 
King  of  Desmond,  delivered  to  him  the  keys  of  Cork  and  did 
homage.  This  great  family  was  popularly  distinguished  into 
two  branches,  the  Mac  Carty  Beagh  and  the  Mac  Carty  More, 
of  which  latter  fiunily  was  Donald  Mac  Carty,  created  Earl  of 
Glancare  by  Queen  Elizabeth.  Besides  bang  Earls  of  Glan- 
care,  the  Mac  Cartys  were  subsequently  at  various  times  en- 
nobled as  Barons  of  Valentia,  Barons  and  Viscounts  Muskeny, 
Earls  of  Clancarty,  and  in  this  reign  Lord  Mountcashd.  In 
1261  ^  the  Geraldines,'  say  the  Four  Masters,  '  marched  with 
a  great  force  into  Desmond,  to  attack  Mac  Carthy  (Fingin), 
who  encountered  and  defeated  them  m  an  engagement,  in 
which  dght  Barons,  five  Knights,  and  several  others  of  the 
English  gentry  were  slain,  together  with  John  Mac  Thomas 


LOED  MOITlirrOABHEL's  INFA17TBT.  97 

and  Barry  More ;  an  innumerable  host  of  their  common  soldiers 
also  fell  in  that  battle.  Fingin  Mac  Carthy  was  afterwards 
slain  by  the  English^  and  his  brother  Aithdeiraoh  Mao  Carthy 
assumed  the  lordship  of  Desmond/  In  1314  Edward  the 
Second  directed  his  especial  letter  missive  to  Dermot  Mao 
Arthy,  ^  Dud  Hibemioorum  ds  Desaemandy  for  his  aid  in  the 
Scottbh  war.  He  is  styled  'Princeps'  in  other  patent  records. 
In  1375  Anne,  wife  of  David  de  la  Boche,  knight,  had  license 
to  take  to  nurse  Cormac,  the  son  of  Dermot  Mac  Carthy,  and 
to  restore  him  to  his  parents,  when  required.  In  Sir  John' 
Ferret's  Farliament  (1584)  the  Earl  of  Glancare  sat  as  chief 
representative  of  this  Sept.  In  a  few  years  after,  the  Desmond 
war  having  wasted  Munster,  Florence  Mao  Carty  and  Dermot, 
son  of  Donagh  Mac  Carty,  passed  out  of  that  Province  to  Spain. 
Another  Florence  Mac  Carthy  had  married  the  only  daughter 
of  the  Earl  of  Glancare;  his  achievements  in  the  Munsterwar 
are  fully  set  forth  in  the  P<zoata  Sibemia.  On  the  EarFs 
death  he  assumed  the  title  of  the  Mao  Carthy  More,  but  having 
been  taken  prisoner  he,  during  his  confinement,  in  the  enthu*" 
siasm  of  national  feeling,  wrote  an  'Epistle  on  the  Antiquities 
of  the  Irish  Nation,"  which  is  preserved  in  the  MSS.  of 
Trinity  College,  Dublin,  (D.  3. 16).  After  a  confinement  of 
nearly  forty  years  he  died  in  the  Tower  of  London.  In  1605 
David  Lord  Barrie,  Viscount  Buttevant,  had  a  grant  from 
King  James  of  various  castles,  manors,  customs,  &c.,  in  the 
County  of  Cork, '  the  estate  of  Fineen  Mac  Owen  Mac  Cartie 
late  of  Inniskeen,  slain  in  rebellion. 

In  1607  the  wardship  of  Cormack,  son  and  heir  of  Donough 
Mac  Carthy  of  Clough-Phillip,  in  Cork,  was  granted  to 
Thomas  Fitz  Gerald  of  ^  Sathstellane,'  therein ;  and  in  the 
same  year  the  King  granted  to  ^  Ellen  Carthie,  daughter 
and  sole  heiress  of  the  Earl  of  Clancarthy,  part  pf  the  lands 

VOL.  II.  H 


98  KING  James's  ibish  abbct  list. 

of  the  said  Earl  not  yet  in  charge,  to  hold  for  her  life,  mih 
remainder  to  Teigue  M'Carthej,  her  son  and  heir  apparent 
in  tail  male,  and  like  remainders  to  her  other  three  sons, 
DonneU,  Cormack,  and  Fynnin,  the  reversion  to  enure  to 
the  Crown.  That  E[ing-s  letter  of  1611  is  of  record  to 
receive  from  Dermod,  son  of  Owen  Mac  Carthey,  a  surrender 
of  the  Castles  of  Eanturk,  Lohorte,  and  aU  his  other  estates 
in  Cork  to  be  regranted,  subject  to  English  rents  and  ser- 
vices; while  in  1612  the  same  monarch  confirmed  to  Donald 
*'  M'Cartie,'  the  Castle  of  Castlelough,  with  lands,  weirs,  &c., 
in  Desmond ;  to  hold  to  himself  for  life,  remainder  to  Donald 
M^Cartie,  his  reputed  son,  in  tail  male;  remainder  to  the 
heirs  male  of  his  own  body,  reversion  to  the  Crown.  An 
inquiry  was  at  this  time  directed,  on  the  petition  of  Cormock 
Cartie,  son  and  heir  of  Donogh  Mac  Cartie,  late  of  Kanturk, 
which  allied  that  '  said  Donogh  had  theretofore  enjoyed 
Dowhally,  until  he  was  taken  prisoner  and  dam  by  the  traitor, 
Tyrone,  at  which  time  the  petitioner  was  an  in&nt;  where* 
upon  the  above  Dermod,  son  of  Owen  Mac  Cartie,  took 
forcible  possession  of  the  lands  which  he  still  keeps;'  the 
petitioner  also  prayed,  that,  when  his  title  was  found,  means 
might  be  taken  for  settling  the  possesedon  of  the  country, 
to  accept  surrenders,  and  to  make  regnints  of  same  to  him, 
so  that  he  shall  have  a  legal  titie.  Dermod,  however,  despite 
this  compiiunt,  had  a  subsequent  confirmatory  patent  of  Kan* 
turk,  Lohorte,  &c.,  according  to  the  tenor  of  his  aforesaid 
patent  of  1611.  The  Attainders  of  16i2  pres^it  the  names 
of  Dexmot  Mc  Carthy,  and  DoneU  son  of  Teigue  Mc  Carthy, 
both  of  Ballyea,  County  of  Cork ;  with  the  large  proportion 
of  one  hundred  and  ten  several  Inquisitions,  confiscating  the 
estates  of  other  proprietors  of  the  name  in  that  County. 
At  the  Supreme  Council  held  in  Kilkenny  in  1646,  Donogh 


IiOBt>  mottktoashbl's  ikfantry.  99 

Mo  C$rty,  Yisoount  Mnskerry,  was  of  its  Temporal  Peers; 
while  Charles  Mc  Carty  Reagh,  Dermot  Mc  Carty  of  Eanturk, 
and  Thady  Me  Carty  of  Killfailaway  were  of  the  Commons. 
The  Viscottnt  was  consequently  especially  excepted  from  pajr- 
don  for  life  and  estate  in  Cromwell's  Ordinance  of  1653*  On 
the  Irish  Establishment  of  1687-8,  this  Colonel  Justin  Macarty 
was  placed  as  a  Major-General  of  the  Army  for  the  annual  pay 
of  £680,  with  an  addition  of  £500  on  the  Pension  List ;  while, 
on  the  latter  fund,  Daniel  Mc  Carty  Beagh  was  placed  for 
£100  j>^  annum.  In  1688  *a  Mr.  Mao  Carty  an  Irish  officer 
(says  Clarke)  aided  the  flight  of  James  the  Second  from 
London  to  Peterfield,*  and  at  the  close  of  that  year  before 
the  Boyal  exile  landed  in  Ireland,  the  Colonel  here  under 
consideration  wrote  from  Cork  to  a  Captain  Mills  of  Mallow, 
who  was  then  arming  for  the  Protestant  cause,  'I  must 
confess  of  all  mankind  I  least  thought  you  would  have 
'  lead '  this  dance,  which  perhaps  we  all  may  have  cause  to 
repent;  but,  let  the  feult  lie  at  whose  door  it  might,  for  as 
to  my  part  I  absolutely  renounce  any  share  in  it.  You  are 
now  upon  the  brink  of  a  very  great  precipice,  which  I  wish 
you  well  out  of/* 

This  mane  appears  on  commission  in  seven  other  Begiments 
of  the  present  muster,  while  frirther,  on  the  present  list,  a 
Colonel  Owen  Mac  Cartie  is  set  down  as  commanding  a 
distinct  Regiment  of  Infantry,  the  strength  of  which  and  the 
names  of  the  officers  are  given  post  from  the  British  Museum 
MS.  In  1689  a  Captain  Mac  Cartie  was  killed,  according 
to  Walker,  or  taken  prisoner,  as  Mac  Kenzie  has  it,  in 
attempting  to  scale  the  walls  of  Derry ;  while  in  S^tember 
of  the  foUowii^  year  another  Captain  Mac  Carty  was  taken 


^  Tkorp^t  Catalogue  SwihmaU  MSS:,  p.  174. 


100  KnrO  JAMS8*8  IBI8H  ASMX  LIST. 

prisoner  at  the  siege  of  Cork  bj  Colonel  ChnrdiiU,  afterwards 
Duke  of  Marlborough.* 

O'Callaghan,  writing  of  this  Lord  Mount  Cashel's  B^- 
ment,  sajs  *  it  was  formed  in  1683  out  of  serend  independent 
companies,  which  King  Charles  withdrew  firom  Tangier,  when 
he  caused  that  fortress  to  be  demolished*  Its  first  Colonel 
was  James  Butler,  afterwards  second  Duke  of  Ormond,  who, 
being  made  Colonel  of  a  Segment  of  Horse,  resigned  the 
command  of  this  to  the  Honourable  Justin  Mac  Carty.* 
Colonel  O^Kellj,  in  his  Exeidium  MaearicB^  styles  him  First 
Lieutenant-Crenend  of  the  Irish  Army,  and  says  he  was  'a 
man  of  parts  and  courage,  wanting  no  quality  fit  for  a  com- 
plete captain,  if  he  were  not  somewhat  short-sighted.'  As 
the  best  qualified  oflScer  for  inspecting  *'  arms,  ordnance,  and 
engineering  tools,*  he  was  early  appointed  Muster-Master 
General  of  Artillery  in  Ireland,  in  reference  to  which  selec- 
tion D'Ayauz  wrote  on  the  12th  of  May  to  M.  de  Louvois : 
^  Sa  Maiest^  Britannique  a  donn^  k  M.  de  Makarty,  la  charge 
de  (jrand  Maistre  de  V  Artillerie  d'  Irlande  que  possedat 
Mylord  Monjoye,  h  la  reserve  que  cette  charge  ne  dependra 
plus  du  Grand  Maistre  de  Y  Artillerie  d*  Angleterre,  comme 
elle  fiusoit  aussaravant,  il  m*a  V  obligation  de  cette  change, 
mais  je  dois  vous  dire  qu'avant  qu'il  V  aoceptant  il  m'est  venu 
demander  si  cela  ne  rempescheroit  point  de  pouroir  aller  en 
France,  pane  que  si  celu  estoit  il  n*y  songeroit  pas.  Comme 
cela  ne  rendia  pas  sa  presence  plus  necessaire  en  ce  pays  cy, 
je  luy  ay  responder  que  les  marques  d'esteme  et  de  distinction 
que  luy  donneroit  le  Boi  son  maistre,  n'empescheroient  pas  les 
veues  que  vous  pouvez  avoir  pour  luy.*t  He  was  also  con- 
stituted Lord  lieutenant  of  the  County  of  Cork;  where, 

*  Slory*$  Imparikd  EMory^  part  L,  p.  181.         f  NegodiOiom^  frc^  p.  US. 


LORD  MOUNTGASHKL'S  INFAKTBT.         101 

preyiouflly  to  King  Jamee's  coming  over,  he  took  Castle- 
Martyr  and  Bandon  fix>m  tlie  possession  of  the  Ptotestant 
party,  and  ivas  considered  to  have  thereby  suppressed  their 
moyements  in  two  of  the  other  provinoes.* 

King  James,  on  his  landing  at  Kinsale,  sought  his  infor- 
mation as  to  the  state  of  the  country  more  especially  '*  firom 
Justin  Macarty  and  from  Sir  Thomas  Nugent,  (afterwards 
created  Lord  Biverston,)  the  Lord  Chief  Justice.  He  then 
applied  himself  to  the  affidrs  of  the  Army,  and  gave  orders 
to  tlus  Justin  to  form  seven  Regiments  of  Foot  of  the  forces 
raised  in  those  quarters,  as  also  to  arm  the  Regiment  of 
Dragoons  of  Sir  James  Cotter,**  (Colonel  Francis  Carroll's 
on  this  List.)t  In  June,  1689,  he  brought  up  from  the 
Commons  Qn  which  he  was  one  of  the  Representatives  of  the 
County  of  Cork),  the  Bill  for  repealing  the  Act  of  Settlement, 
which  had  passed  through  that  House,  and  he  was  thereupon 
created  Lord  Viscount  Mountcashel  and  Baron  of  Castleinchy, 
by  which  title  he  was  introduced  on  the  second  day  of  the 
meeting  of  this  Parliament  to  the  House  of  Peers;  and 
immediately  aftter  was  constituted  Conunander  of  the  forces 
designed  to  reduce  Enniskillen.t  Amongst  the  Peers  on 
that  occasion  sat  also  Donogh  Mac  Carty  (although  a  minor) 
by  Boyal  dispensation ;  while,  in  the  Commons,  Charles  and 
Daniel  Mac  Carty  Beagh  sat  for  the  Borough  of  Bandon, 
Lieutenant-Colonel  Owen  Mac  Carty  and  Daniel  Fyneen 
Mac  Carty  for  that  of  Cloughnakilty ,  and  Florence  Mac  Carty 
was  one  of  the  Representatives  of  the  Borough  of  Ennis. 

Lord  Mountcashel  proceeded  under  his  aforesaid  commission 
into  Ulster,  attended  by  three  whole  Regiments  of  Li&ntry, 


*  Clarhe*$  James  IL,  vol  2,  p.  327.  t  IdeoL 

t  (/CallagharCi  Brigades^  voL  1,  p.  26. 


102 


KINO  JAMES  8  IBIBH  ABMT  LIST. 


two  of  Dragoons,  and  some  Horse ;  b^ng  sU  the  troops  the 
King  could  draw  together  at  that  time.  His  Lordship'i  efforts 
in  that  Provinoe  were,  however,  firom  the  want  of  ammunition 
and  the  freshness  of  his  levies,  ineffective.  On  the  28th  of 
July,  1689,  M.  d'Avaux  enclosed  in  a  letter  to  M.  de  Louvois* 
the  following  report  of  the  state  of  the  ^  musquets  *  which  are 
useless,  and  of  those  which  are  wanting  to  the  troops  before 
Deny,  and  the  swords,  belts,  and  bandeliers,  which  thej  also 
require,  via. : — 


MirSQUBTS 
nSFICISMT. 

•WOBM. 

raoBS. 

BILTa* 

BAHPB' 
UBBS. 

Clancardiy, 

111 

25 

252 

87 

800 

67 

Oreagh,     •        « 

64 

24 

74 

- 

26 

54 

Tjrcaang^j 

60 

127 

474 

106 

474 

-lbs 

Bamfle7,    . 

ao 

69 

197 

- 

50 

62 

Edwaxd  Batler, 

3S8 

66 

890 

84 

745 

636 

4  Companies  of) 
Grace's  Begt,/ 

68 

57 

140 

- 

140 

- 

Seldm*8(Seldon*s) 

876 

~ 

450 

• 

450 

450 

Nugent,    . 

277 

64 

850 

80 

850 

850 

Caveoagh, 

266 

800 

500 

85 

500 

500 

Gonnanston^     • 

144 

60 

878 

140 

421 

322 

Loncht  (Loath), 

360 

-> 

780 

-. 

780 

650 

Hamilton, 

72 

30 

168 

— 

100 

120 

BagnaD,             « 

66 

46 

133 

86 

60 

180 

Fitzgerald,        « 

26 

- 

121 

50 

— 

121 

Chevalier  Ufson, 

414 

— 

700 

- 

.- 

.. 

CNfiill, 

95 

98 

408 

50 

835 

200 

*BeUV 

48 

64 

400 

^ 

400 

100 

Richard  Butler, 

70 

60 

400 

100 
716 

400 

100 

2,770 

1,105 

6,802 

5,531 

8,912 

*  Negotiatiom^  ^.,  p.  385«.6. 


LOBD  HOXTKTOAjBHEL'S  IN7AKTET.  108 

la  an  engagement  near  Enniskillen,  this  Colonel  was  sererelj 
wonnded,  and,  being  carried  into  that  town  a  prisoner,  '*  he 
there  lay  long  under  cure;  but,  before  he  was  Ailly  recovered 
of  his  wounds,  he  made  his  escape  after  a  strange  and  wonder- 
ful manner,  to  the  universal  joy  of  all  the  Irish*^  *'  The  town 
of  Enniskillen,''  writes  Story  {Impartial  JERatory^  part  I,  p.  51) 
**•  stands  upon  a  lough,  and  the  water  came  to  the  door  of  the 
house  where  he  was  confined,  or  very  near  it.  He  fbimd 
means  to  corrupt  a  servant,  and  to  get  two  small  boats  called 
'  cots'  to  carry  him  and  his  best  moveables  off  by  night/'  This 
act  having  been  represented  as  a  breach  of  parol.  Lord  Moimt* 
eashel,  previous  to  resmning  militaiy  duties  in  France,  the  new 
scene  of  his  achievements,  thought  it  necessary  to  submit  him- 
self to  be  tried  before  a  Court  of  Honour,  in  that  countiy^ 
when  he  was  fully  acquitted  by  this  tribunal.t 

The  reader  must  be  here  reminded  that,  when  James  tha 
Second  was  induced  to  attempt  a  landing  in  Ireland,  Louis 
the  Fourteenth  agreed  to  send  over  thither  for  his  service  mx 
thousand  of  his  veterans,  under  the  command  of  De  Lausun, 

*  NegctiatUm^  ffc^  p.  36u 
t  When  the  Duke  of  Schonbei^  landed  at  Bangor  in  the  County  of 
Down,  in  August,  1689,  his  first  moTement  was  against  Carrickfergus ;  to 
invest  which  he  sent  five  Regiments  of  Foot  and  some  Horse,  following  on 
the  next  day  himself  with  the  remainder  of  the  Army.  The  town  was  go- 
verned by  a  Gotond  styled  Charles  Macarty  More,  whose  ganiMm  consisted 
of  his  own  Begbnoit  (not  enroUed  on  this  muster),  and  nine  companies  of 
Colwiel  Cormiii^  O'Neill's.  He  defended  the  place  for  ten  days  against 
Schonberg's  operations  by  land  and  sea ;  nor  was  it  until  reduced  to  the  last 
extremity,  having  but  one  barrel  of  powder  left,  and  without  any  hope  of 
relief^  that  he  quitted  the  town,  upon  very  honourable  terms.  ^*  The  gar- 
rison," says  Story,  in  the  first  part  of  his  Impartial  HistoTy  (p.  10),  *^  were 
lusty  strcmg  fellows,  but  ill-dad^  and,  to  give  them  their  due,  they  did  not 
behave  ill  in  that  siege." 


] 


104  KiNa  JAMss's  misH  abht  list. 

in  exchange  for  as  man j  young  soldiers  from  Ireland.  Lord 
Mountcashel  was  appointed  to  head  the  latter.  On  the  arriyal 
of  these  Irish  forces  in  France  in  May,  1690,  they  were 
received  with  the  most  flattering  and  generous  treatment  by 
the  Song.  Mountcashers  Regiment,  haying  suffered  almost 
annihilation  in  the  engagement  near  Enniflkillen,  was  strength- 
ened  with  fresh  recruits  before  it  could  be  brought  out.  The 
second  Regiment  sent  out,  Clare's,  was  commanded  by  the 
Honourable  Daniel  O'Brien,  son  of  Lord  Clare ;  the  third, 
Dillon's,  was  tmder  the  Honourable  Arthur  Dillon,  second 
son  of  the  Lord  Viscount  of  that  name.  There  were  two  other 
Re^ments  sent  over  with  these,  viz.,  Colonel  Richard  Butler's 
and  Colonel  Robert  Fielding's,  which  were  at  once  incorpo- 
rated in  the  three  first  Soon  after  Mountcashel's  arrival,  he 
received  a  conmiission  fit>m  Louis,  entitling  him  to  command 
all  the  Irish  troops  taken  into  the  French  service,  viz.,  his 
own,  O'Brien's,  and  Dillon's ;  and  in  a  few  days  after  was  em- 
powered to. act  as  a  Lieutenant-Genend  of  France,  as  he 
already  vras  of  England  and  Ireland.* 

^^  In  order  at  once  to  engage  his  military  services,  he  was 
ordered  to  Savoy,  where  the  French  corps  cCarmie  was  then 
too  feeble  for  active  operations.  After  a  march  of  five  hundred 
miles  under  a  burning  sun,  to  which  the  men  were  unaccus- 
tomed, it  joined  the  French  army  near  the  capital  of  Savoy, 
towards  the  latter  end  of  Jtdy.  Lieutenant-General  the  Mar- 
quis of  St.  Ruth  (destined  afterwards  to  fiJl  at  Aughrim)  on 
the  arrival  of  the  Irish,  recognised  their  value,  and  fearlessly 
approached  Chantilly.  Calculating  on  their  courage  and  agility 
as  mountaineers,  he  promptly  ordered  their  forces  to  join  him, 
with  the  object  of  driving  the  Piedmontese  beyond  the  high 

^  aCaUaghan*$  Brigades^  toI.  1,  p.  60. 


LORD  K0tJNTCA8H£L*S  INFANTBT.  105 

Alps  that  separated  Savoy  from  Piedmont.  Nor  did  Mount- 
caahel  disappoint  his  expectations;  at  the  head  of  bis  Regi- 
ment he  gained  the  defiles,  burst  through  the  abattis,  carried 
the  entrenchments,  and  forced  the  Piedmontese  to  fly  to  the 
summits  of  the  mountains.  M.  de  Salles,  their  commander, 
was  taken  prisoner,  the  next  in  command  was  kiUed,  and  seve- 
nd  others  were,  in  the  pursuit,  killed  or  taken.  Mountcashel 
received  wounds  on  this  occasion,  which,  though  he  was  un» 
willing  they  should  withdraw  him  from  service,  yet  ultimately 
preyed  upon  him  to  death.  During  the  campaign  of  1691,  St^ 
Buth^s  corps  was  embodied  in  the  French  armies  of  Piedmont 
and  Catalonia,  and  shared  with  them  the  honor  of  the  capture 
of  Montmelian,  the  strongest  fortress  in  the  south  of  Europe, 
and  of  Urgel  in  Catalonia,  defended  by  a  large  garrison,  the 
HUe  of  the  Spanish  army.  Clare's  mounted  the  trenches  at 
Montmelian,  and  Mountcashel's  and  Dillon's  at  Urgel.* 

In  1692  MountcasheFs  Brigade  accomplished  brilliant 
services  with  Catinat  on  the  Piedmontese  frontier,  at  Guil- 
lestre,  and  Embrun.  Nine  battalions  of  his  were  engaged  in 
this  service,  with  three  of  Clare's,  two  of  the  King's  and 
Queen's    Dismounted  Dragoons,  and  two  of  the  Queen's 

Infantry,  t In  1694,  when  the  French  anny  in  Germany 

was  commanded  by  Marshal  Boufflers,  Mountcashel  served  as 
a  Lieutenant-General  in  the  corps  of  the  Grand  Army,  having 
under  him  his  own  Regiment,  connsting  of  three  Battalions, 
the  Dublin,  the  Charlemont,  and  the  Marines.  Their  nine 
Battalions,  in  all  about  6,000  men,  effected  the  reduction  of 
Beringheim  on  the  Necker,  the  only  achievement  of  the 

i 

*  (yConoi'a  MHiL  Mem.  p.  100,  &&— See  filso  (yCaUaghofCi  Brigades^ 
ToL  1,  p.  69.  &C. 

t  (/Conor^a  Military  Memoirs,  p.  215-16. 


106  Kziira  jasibs's  ibxsh  AJtMT  list. 

French  in  G^ennany  during  thifl  year*  In  the  oampaign  on 
the  Rhine,  Mountcashel  acted  as  Lieutenant-Crenend  under 
Marshal  Lorges,  but  the  effects  of  his  wounds  obliged  him  to 
seek  benefit  from  the  waters  of  Barege,  where  he  died  in  July, 
1694.  He  had  married  the  Lady  Arabella  Wentworth, 
second  daughter  of  Thomas,  the  ill-fated  Earl  of  Stra£K>rd,  by 
whom  he  left  no  issue.  In  1691  he  was  attainted,  and,  again 
in  1 696,  two  years  after  hb  death.  In  the  former  year  seventyr 
eight  other  inquisitions  (^  outlawries  were  held  on  this  devoted 
Sept.  Amongst  these  was  one  on  Phelim  Mac  Carthy,  who, 
previous  to  King  James's  arrival  in  Ireland,  took  Killowen 
House  in  Kerry,  from  a  party  of  Williandtes,  that,  in  the 
expectatiaaofi^tance  fto^land.  IumI  fortified  then>selve. 
there.  The  death  of  Lord  Mount  Cashel  made  room  for  the 
advancement  of  Colonel  Andrew  Lee,  an  officer  of  distinguished 
reputation,  who  afterwards  obtained  the  rank  of  Lieutenant- 
Greneral,  and  by  whose  name  Mountcashers  Begiment  was 
thenceforward  known^t    He  died  in  1734,  aged  84. 

In  1770  died  in  England  Charles  Mac  Carthy  more^  a 
Captain  in  the  First  Foot  Guards,  who  claimed  descent  £rom 
Dermot  Mac  Carthy,  King  of  Cork,  in  the  time  of  Henry  the 
Second,  as  the  lineal  male  descendant  of  the  before-mentioned 
Florence  McCarthy,  by  the  Lady  Ellen  Mc  Carthy,  only 
daughter  of  the  Earl  of  Glancajre« 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  HOGAN. 

Obtelius's  Map  locates  the  '  O'Hogains  *  as  an  ancient  Sept 
in  Tipperary,  in  the  vicinity  of  Nenagh.     Of  this  family  the 

*  aCwor'M  MUtarg  Memoin,  p.  S24.         f  Idem,  p.  228-9. 


LOSD  MOUKTCikJSHEL'S  TSFAWrXT.  107 

Annals  of  the  Diocese  of  Killaloe  record  Matthew  O'Hogain 
its  Bishop  in  1267,  Maurice  0*Hogain  in  1281,  Thomas 
O^Hogaan  in  1343,  and  Richard  Hogan  in  1525 ;  this  last  was 
afterwards  translated  to  the  See  of  Clonmacnoise,  a  short  lime 
previous  to  its  union  with  Meath. 

la  1678  Honora  Hogan,  grand-4aughter  of  Patrick  Hogan, 
had  a  confirmatory  grant  of  358  acres  in  Clare;  ashadMurtogh 

Hogan  in  the  same  year  of  257  in  Galway while  Ensign 

Darby  'Hoggane*  was  one  of  the  '1649'  officers.  The 
officer  here  on  commission  Was  of  Terraleague,  County  of 
Cork;  while  there  are  also  on  this  Army  List,  besides  him 

and  Thomas  Hogan,  a  Lieutenant  in  this  Begiment,  

Hogan  an  Ensign  in  the  Eang's  Own  In&ntry;  Murtough 
and  Hugh  Hogan,  Comets  in  Lord  Clare's  Dragoons;  (the 
latter  was  of  Camshan,  County  q£  Claire) ;  and  in  Colonel 
Dudley  Bagnall's  Infantry,  Daniel  Hogan  was  a  Captain,  and 
William  Hogan  an  Ensign,  while  yet  another  of  the  name  was 
an  Ensign  in  Colonel  John  Grace'Si  Of  these,  John  and  Hugh 
only  appear  on  the  Boll  of  Attainders  in  1691.  Story  relates* 
that  '*  Grace  and  Hogan,  two  Bapparee  Captains,  with  eighty 
men  surprised  a  castle  called  Camgart,  within  six  miles  of 
Birr.*'  [The  Hogan  here  named  by  the  Williamite  historian, 
appears  identical  with  another  leader,  whom  other  narratiTes 
style  '  galloping  Hogan.'  On  the  Continent,  during  the  war 
of  the  Spanish  Succession,  the  principal  Lish  officer  in  the 
service  of  Portugal,  was  Major-General  Hogan,  sometimes 
misspelt  Bogan.] 


^  Slory^s  In^xaHal  HUL  pt.  H,  p.  S. 


108  KING  JAMBS'S  1BI8H  ASKT  LIST. 


CAPTAIN  IVORIE. 

A  Caftaik  William  Irorie  was  the  patentee  of  lands  in 
Kilkenny  and  Wexford  after  the  Sestoiation,  and  he  may 
possibly  have  been  the  above  officer. 


CAPTAIN  RICHARD  CONDON. 

The  Condons  were  anciently  settled  in  the  County  of  Cork; 
but  their  chief  territory  was,  on  the  plantation  of  Munsteri 
granted  to  Arthur  Hyde,  a&  forfeited  by  Patridc  Condon,  an 
adherent  of  the  Eaxi  of  Desmond*  The  Chief,  however, 
Patrick  Condon,  being  pardoned,  alleged  title  and  impleaded 
Hyde;  but,  both  parties  having  died  during  the  suit,  David, 
the  son  and  heir  of  Patrick,  renewed  the  claim  against  Arthur 
Hyde  the  younger,  which,  says  the  King*s  letter  in  1614, 
was  at  length  secretly  reconciled,  so  that  Hyde  acknowledged 
Condon's  right  to  the  seignory,  and  a  surrender  and  re-grant 
passed  in  his  favour,  not  only  of  those  lands  so  theretofore 
granted  to  Hyde,  but  also  of  other  castles  and  lands,  with  a 
reservation  only  of  a  small  rent,  *  in  consideration  of  the  ser« 
vices  performed  by  David's  fitther,  Patrick,  who  was  cruelly 
bound  and  had  his  tlugh  broken  in  an  expedition  against  the 
rebeb,  of  which  he  afterwards  died.'  That  grant,  such  were 
the  subterfuges  of  the  times,  Condon  was  induced  to  assign 
to  Hyde,  with  the  object  of  better  assuring  his  title.  In 
the  subsequent  Attainders  of  1642  no  less  than  twenty-one 


LOBB  MOXniTCASHEL'S  INFAITTBT.  109 

• 

Inqoiffltions  were  held  on  this  name.  Besides  the  above 
Captain  Bichard,  and  Bedmond  Condon  an  Ensign  in  this 

Begiment, Condon  was  a  Captain  in  Colonel  Purceirs 

Horse,  Edmund  Condon  a  Lieutenant  in  Colonel  John 
Barrett's,  and  another  Condon  a  Lieutenant  in  Lord  Clan* 
carty's  Infantry.  The  Attainders  of  1691  have  the  names 
of  John  Condon  of  Carrioknavoura,  David  of  Ballymacpatrick 
and  John  his  son,  Grarrett  of  KiUecar  and  Bedmond  of  Bally-* 
william,  all  in  the  County  of  Cork.  Captain  Bichard  appears 
to  have  fallen  in  battle.  His  widow,  Juljanne*  was  an  un- 
successful claimant  at  Chichester  House  for  a  life  estate  in 
his  Cork  lands. 


LIEUTENANT  DOMINICK  TEBBY. 

This  surname,  though  by  some  stated  to  have  been  intro- 
duced into  Munster,  only  on  the  plantation,  consequent  upon 
the  Desmond  war,  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of 
the  Tudors.  In  1432  Philip  •  Tirry'  was,  by  Boyal  authority, 
constituted  one  of  the  Coroners  of  the  City  of  Cork.  Henry 
the  Seventh,  in  the  laist  year  of  his  reign,  entrusted  William 
Tiny,  Edmund,  son  of  Dame  Tirry,  and  two  other  citizens 
of  Cork,  to  be  receivers  and  collectors,  as  well  of  all  customs  in 
the  port  thereof  as  of  the  fiurm  of  said  City,  and  of  all  the 
Sing's  profits  within  same  and  its  franchises,  and  to  oversee 
and  govern  Cork.  In  1536  Dominick  Terry  consented  to 
be  appointed  Bishop  of  Cork  and  Boss,  by  mandate  of  Henry 
VIIL,  and  held  the  See  in  opposition  to  the  Pope's  nominee; 
while  in  1616  William  'Thyrry,'  on  the  latter  authority, 
became  titular  Bishop  thereof.     In  1611  Patrick  '  Tenye' 


110  S3KO  JAXEA*B  IBISH  ABUT  LIST. 

had  a  grant  of  lands  in  Kenywheny,  with  the  ismes  of 
Donagall  and  Cullaragfaagh  in  the  Coonty  of  Cork.  The 
Attainders  of  1642  hare  only  the  names  of  Edmund  Tyrry 
of  Clontnric,  and  William,  son  of  Dominiok  Tyrry,  of  Bally- 
macperry,  County  of  Cork.  Those  of  1691  inolnde  William 
and  Robert  Terry  of  BaUingourry,  George  and  John  of 
Bathnagaide,  Fnmois  of  Galway,  and  James,  Patrick,  and 
Stephen  Thyrry  of  limmok.  One  of  these  sufferers  was  a 
Lieutenant  in  Lord  Kilmallod^'s  Infimtry,  as  was  another  in 
Colonel  Owen  Mac  Cartie's. 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  MALLY. 

The  most  influential  bianofa  of  this  fkmily,  O'Mally  or 
OMaley,  has  been  long  established  in  the  County  of  Mayo, 
in  that  district  usually  called  the  Owles.  They  are  descended 
from  Conall  CMrbsean,  one  of  the  twenty-four  sons  of  Brian 
(the  broths  of  Niall  of  the  Nine  Hostages),  the  common 
ancestor  of  the  families  of  O'Flahertie,  O'Ronrke  and  other 
chieftains  of  Connaught. 

In  1250  died  Thomas  O'Malley,  Kshop  of  Enagfadune 
(in  Galway) ;  as  did  his  namesake  also  Bishop  thereof  in 
1328,  at  Rome.  In  1413  Tuathal  O'Maliey,  having  gcme 
for  refuge  from  locsd  feuds  into  the  province  of  Ulstw,  re- 
mained there  for  a  year,  at  the  end  of  which  time  he  ^  set  out 
for  home  with  seven  ships,  about  the  festival  of  St.  Columb- 
kille,  but  a  storm  overtook  them  off  the  northern  coast,  and 
drove  them  to  the  south  of  Scotland,  where  six  of  the  ships 
with  their  crews  were  lost.  Amongst  the  drowned  were  the 
two  sons  of  Tuathal  O'Malley;  Donogh»  son  of  Owen  Con^ 


LOBB  MOtnrrGA8H£L*8  DrPAKTBT.  Ill 

nachtach  Mao  Sweeney;  Donai  eaUaehy  (bulwark)  the  son  of 
Mac  Sweeney  ffirr^  together  with  two  hundred  and  forty 
others;  and  Tuathai,  with  much  difficulty  landed  in  Scotland.' 
The  sept  was,  as  before  suggested,  more  espedally  located 
on  the  sea*coast  of  Mayo,  whence,  in  1460,  Donal,  son  of 
Dennod  O'Malley,  with  William  and  John  O'MaUey,  having 
gone  witib  their  shipping  al(mg  with  the  sons  of  O'Brien  to 
Corka-boskin  (in  Clare),  in  an  ezpeditbn  against  Mac  Mahon, 
the  three  O'Malleys  were  slain  before  they  cotdd  reach  their 
ships;  Dooal  O'Brien  was  taken  prisoner  and  Mahon  O'Brien 
was  drowned.  About  the  year  1360  Sir  Edmund  Buike, 
albanaeh  (Scottish),  ancestor  of  the  Earl  of  Mayo,  intermarried 
with  Sabina,  daughter  of  Dermot  O'Malley  of  the  Owles.* 

In  1513  '  Owen  O'Malley,  with  the  crews  of  three  ships, 
sailed  into  the  harbour  of  Killybegs  by  night,  at  which 
time  the  chiefs  of  that  country  were  on  an  esu^ursion  with 
O'Donnell.  The  invaders  plundered  and  bnmed  the  town 
and  took  many  prisoners  in  it;  they  were,  however,  overtaken 
by  a  storm,  and  being  compelled  to  remain  on  the  borders  of 
the  country,  they  lighted  fires  convenient  to  their  ships.  An 
intrepid  young  man  of  the  Mac  Sweeneys,  namely  Bryan, 
accompanied  by  the  son  of  Bryan  Mac  Anaspie  O'Grallagher, 
with  a  number  of  farmers  and  peasants,  came  down  upon  and 
courageously  attacked  them.  They  slew  Owen  O'Malley, 
together  with  five  or  six  score  of  his  men,  took  two  ships 
firom  them  and  liberated  the  prisoners  theif  had  made.^  In 
the  reign  of  Elizabeth,  Grace,  daughter  of  Owen  O'Malley, 
called  by  the  natives  Grana  Uile,  made  her  name  so  widely 
known,  that  in  1576  the  Lcnrd  Deputy  Sidney  wrote  of  her 
to  the  Council  in  England,  as  one  *  powerful  in  gallies  and 

*  Lodge^9  Petrage^  ▼•  S^  p-  ^1^*         t  Annak  of  the  Fow  MoMt&i^ 


112  KING  JAUfiS'S  IBISH  ABMT  LIST. 

seamen/  The  renown  of  her  Sept  in  maritime  aflbirs  and 
naval  exploits  is  indicated  in  their  heraldic  motto,  ^  Terra 
inarique  potens'  Her  visit  to  the  Court  of  Elizabeth  and 
her  canyiBgoff  the  infeat  eon  of  the  Lord  of  Howth  from 
his  father*s  residence,  have  been  commemorated  in  prose  and 
poetry.  Her  nephew,  Edmund  O'Malley,  bom  in  1579, 
adhered  to  the  cause  of  Charles  the  First,  and  died  in  Breda 
an  Exile,  leaving  a  son  who  was  present  when  very  young  at 
the  battle  of  Worcester,  and  accompaiiied  his  &ther  to  Breda; 
on  the  Bestoration  he  recovered  a  portion  of  his  ancient, 
inheritance.  He  (continues  Sir  Bernard  Burke)  attended 
James  the  Second  through  all  bis  Irish  campugns,  and  died 
with  him  in  exile  at  St.  Germains  in  1692.  He  married  at 
the  Court  of  Spain  the  daughter  of  Sir  Christopher  Garvey, 
a  maid  of  honor  to  the  Queen,  by  whom  he  had  a  son  Teigue 
or  Thady  O'Malley,  who  held  a  commission  as  Captain  of 
Irish  Dragoons  during  this  campaign.* 

This  &mily  was  so  formidable  in  the  estimation  of  the 
Lord  President  of  Munster  during  the  war  in  that  Province, 
that  in  1601  when  *' intelligence  having  reached  him,  and 
letters  being  intercepted,  whereby  it  probably  appeared  that 

the  O'Mayleys  and  O'Flahertys  had  a  purpose 

with  six  hundred  men  to  invade  Kerry,  •  .  .  principally 
to  disturb  his  Government,  be  despatched  a  strong  body  of 
men  to  do  good  service  on  the  rebels  at  thdr  passage  over 
the  Shannon,  which,  of  necessity,  they  must  hazard  before 
they  could  come  into  Munster  ;t  a  service  which  was  effec- 
tively rendered  After  the  defeat  of  the  Spaniards  at  Kinsale, 
when  Sir  Charles  Wilmot  was  despatched  to  watdb  over  the 
inhabitants  of  Kerry,  Owen  O^Malley  was  one  of  the  native 

*  Burke^s  Landed  Gentry^  p.  964.        f  Pacata  Hibemia,  pp.  822*9. 


LORD  M0TJKTCASH£L*8  JNFAKTBT.  113 

chiefe  who,  at  the  head  of  *'  500  foot  and  a  few  horse,  vainlj 
sought  at  Lixnaw  to  stay  his  passage."* 

In  1611  Hugh  '  O'Malie,*  brother  and  heir  of  Cormac 
O'Malie,  who  was  the  son  and  heir  of  Bryan,  son  of  Cormac 
O'Malie,  had  livery  of  his  inheritance  in  Mayo;  and,  in  six 
years  after,  Edmund  O'Maly  had  a  confirmatory  grant  of 
the  Castle,  lawn,  and  barbican  of  Cahimamart,  with  the 
Castle  and  town  of  Carrowmore,  and  sundry  other  lands  in 
Mayo.  In  Lord  Galway^s  Regiment  of  Infantry,  a  Daniel 
Mally,  described  in  his  Attainder  as  of  Tyrehugh,  County 
of  Donegal  was  an  Ensign.  With  him  were  attainted  in 
1690  Nicholas  Mally  of  Dublin,  Thady  of  Drogheda,  mer- 
chant; Neil  O'MaUey  also  of  Tyrehugh,  and  Patrick,  Owen, 
and  Darby  O'MaUey  of  Owles,  County  of  Mayo.  In  the 
latter  part  of  the  eighteenth  century,  Patrick  O'MaUey,  of 
the  Mayo  Sq[>t,  was  killed  in  the  Austrian  service. 


ENSIGN MULVANY. 

Nothing  has  been  ascertained  worthy  of  notice  concerning 
this  Officer.  O'Mulvany  was  the  name  of  an  Irish  Sept, 
and  Gille  O'Mulvany  is  recorded  in  a  RoU  of  James  the 
Second's  time,  as  a  landed  proprietor  in  the  County  of 
Antrim. 

^  Pcuxcta  Htbemidi  p.  683. 


VOL.  II. 


114 


Koia  JAJtsa's  vusa  abmt  list. 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 


DOHOOH,  BASL  OP  OLANCABTT. 


TheOotaeL 
M«Pt-Col 

f— r-Condqu. 

••^Mmouty. 

Philip  BfC9Mtt, 

-— Talliot. 

DanieL 

Major. 

Alexander  ICaguire. 

• 

Walter  Batler. 

Gendd  Fitaegerald. 

Qnigly 

->— Power. 

Charieton. 

Lord  Upper  OMOiy. 

Garret 'TlrreO.* 

Edmond  PmcelL 

Garret  Deaaeb 

Hull 

Copinger. 

Edmimd  Fitsgerald. 
Callagfaan. 

Daly. 
Bum. 

Barry. 

Dottogfa  M'Carty. 

Andrew  Dorrinfftoo. 

} 

Bev. 


gonoor, 
-Hcgartiei  Ckaplmm. 


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COLONEL  THE  EABL  OF  CLANQARTY. 

DoKQGH  Mao  Carty,  the  grandfather  of  thia  nobleman,  was 
YiflOQunt  Muskerty  and  firsts  Earl  of  Clancf^.  He  was 
Greneral  of  the  Lish  Forces  of  Munstei?  for  C^xles  the  First 
and  Charles  the  Second  i^gainst  the  Parliamentarian  Bevolu- 
ticmists.  When  resistance  wfis  no  longer  available  at  home, 
he  bionght  off  a  laig^  \^j  pf  Ids  eountrymen  to  the 
Continent;  i)Ad,  suryiving  the  Bestoration,  died  in  London 
in  August^  1665.  He  had  by  his  wife,  the  Lady  Butler, 
eldest  ^ter  of  Jame^  the  first  Dnke  of  Onnond,  Charles, 
Callaghan,  and  Justi^  Mac  Cfuiy;  the  eldest  fell  in  ba.ttle 
about  two  months  pr^Tions  to  his  &ther*s  decease,  in  the 
memorable  sea-fight  at  South-hold  Bay,  where  James,  then 
Duke  of  York,  ^t  the  head  of  ninety-eight  ships  of  the  line 
^d  four  fife-ships^  gained  the  most  glorious  victory  that  had 
eyer  been  obtained  by  t^he  English  marine  over  the  naval 
power  of  S[ollaad-  This  son  of  Earl  Ponogh  was  interred 
in  Westoiiiister  Abbey,  ai^d,  kU  only  son  having  died  a 
minor,  unmarried*  the  titles  and  estates  devolved  upon  his 
next  brother  CaUaghan,  who  had  entered  upon  an  ecclesiastical 
life  in  France  with  the  intention  of  becoming  a  driest;  but, 
on  the  extinction  of  his  elder  brother's  line,  he  became  a 
Protestant,  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  the  sixteenth  Earl 
of  Kildi^,  and  dying  in  November,  1676,  left  issue  by  her 
one  son,  the  abqye  Colonel,  horn  about  the  year  1670. 

He  was  educated  a  Protestant  by  the  Archbishop  of 
Canterbury,  and  bred  up  at  Oxford.  At  the  early  age  of 
seven  years  a  patent  issued  in  his  favour,  confirming  to  him 


116  KINO  JAMES'S  IBISH  ABICT  LIST. 

80,895  acres  of  land  in  Cork,  to  be  held  by  him  in  tail  male, 
remainder  to  the  heirs  male  of  the  late  Earl  of  Clancarthj, 
remainder  in  fee  to  the  right  heirs  of  the  said  late  EarL 
His  micle,  Justin  McCartj,  without  the  knowledge  of  his 
mother  *  married  him,  at  nxteen  years  old,  to  Maiy,  daughter 
of  the  Earl  of  Sunderland,  who  was  then  a  Court  favourite, 
and  immediately  sent  him  to  Ireland/  Smith,  in  his  History 
of  Cork  (vol.  1,  p.  175,  n.)  details  some  curious  particulars 
respecting  this  nobleman*s  marriage.  He  became  a  Catholic, 
and,  with  his  unde,  warmly  espoused  the  cause  of  King 
James.  Early  in  March,  1689,  the  townspeople  of  Bandon 
fell  upon  its  small  Jacobite  garrison  under  Captain  Donell 
O'Neill,  seised  their  arms,  dothes,  &c.,  and  shut  the  gates 
against  this  Earl  Donogh,  who  was  advancing  with  a  rein- 
forcement of  six  companies  to  relieve  the  place.  His  said 
unde,  however,  after  taking  precautions  against  any  hostile 
rising  in  the  City  of  Cork  and  its  vieinily,  compelled  the 
Williamites  of  Bandon  to  seek  pardon,  open  their  gates,  pay 
£1,000  fine,  and  level  their  walls,  which  have  never  since 
been  rebuilt;  this  achievement  put  an  end  to  any  oppoeition 
to  James  in  Munster.  On  that  Monarch's  subsequently 
UnHing  at  Kinsale,  the  Earl  of  Clancarty  with  Tyrconnel 
recdved  him;  the  former  entertaining  His  Majesty,  who 
''made  him  a  Lord  of  the  Bed-Chamber,  appointed  him 
Clerk  of  the  Crown  and  Peace  for  the  Province  by  Letters 
Patent,  and  created  his  Lifantry  Be^ment  a  Boyal  Begiment 
of  Guards."* 

Li  the  Parliament  of  Dublin,  May,  1689,  this  Earl,  though 
under  age,  sat  as  a  Peer  by  Boyal  dispensation.  Li  1690, 
being  in  the  City  of  Cork  when  it  was  bedeged  by  the  Earl 

*  Mgmoin  of  Ireland^  p.  2i. 


EABL  OF  CLAKCABTT'S  INFANTBT.         117 

afterwards  Duke,  of  Marlborough,  he  was  taken  prisoner  and 
sent  off  to  the  Tower  of  London,  where  he  was  held  until 
the  autumn  of  1694,  when  he  succeeded  in  making  his  escape 
to  France,  and  there  he  commanded  a  troop  of  King  James's 
Gruards,  untal  the  peace  of  Ryswick  in  1697.  In  the  following 
year  he  ventured  to  visit  England  and  his  wife,  but  was 
instantly  arrested,  and  was  only  pardoned  on  condition  of 
abjuring  the  Kingdom;  whereupon  he  retired  to  Hamburg, 
and,  purchasing  an  Island  in  the  Elbe  near  Altona,  made  it 
his  rendence  till  his  death.*  He  was  attainted  in  1691  and 
1696,  when  his  forfeitures  gave  an  immense  tract  of  country 
to  the  Crown.  A  letter  of  Bartholomew  Van  Homrigh, 
dated  11th  December,  1697,  in  the  Southwell  MSS.  CoUec- 
tions,  says,  ^'  the  grant  of  the  late  Earl  of  Clancarty's  estates 
to  Lord  Woodstock  is  this  night  past  the  Great  Seal  of 
Ireland,  so  that  all  the  said  estate  is  now  by  law  in  my  Lord 
Woodstock  (better  known  as  Earl  of  Portland)  and  his  hdrs 
for  ever."  t  The  extent  of  the  old  Irish  assessments  which 
his  ancestors  levied  may  be  judged  from  a  previous  patent  of 
King  James  (1608)  granting  to  Sir  Hem^y  Power,  Knight, 
Privy  Councillor,  all  and  singular  the  seigniories,  chief 
rents,  silver  rents,  customs  of  beeves,  swine,  butter,  oats, 
beer,  bran,  honey,  and  all  other  services  which  belonged  to 
Donald  late  Eari  of  Clancartie,  and  were  forfeited  to  the 
Crown  in  Kerry  and  Desmond  Counties. 

At  the  Court  of  Chichester  House,  the  Countess  of  Clan- 
carty  claimed  off  all  the  estate  of  this  nobleman  '  a  competent 
maintenance,'  and  preferred  other  charges  attaching  to  the 
same,  but  with  no  success.    On  this  occasion  Teigue,  son  of 

*  aCdOaghanU  Briffades,  t.  1,  p.  140. 
t  Thorpt^M  CataL  SmOwOl  MSS.^  p.  26. 


118  IfctKd  JAMBSlS  tBISH  ii^HT  LIST. 

Owen  Mac  Corty,  an  admrniatiratot  of  OWeb,  son  of  Daniel 
Mac  Carty,  claimed  and  Was  allowed  a  leasehold  iiiteiesl 
in  some  of  this  Ea^Vs  C<^k  lands,  as  ims  Charles,  son  of 
Donough  M'Caarty,  a  life  estate  for  himsdf  find  t^mainder  in 
tail  male  for  his  issue  on  die  same  estates.  Margaret  Mac 
Carty  was  allowed  a  leasehold  for  years  in  oth^  pa^xsels,  as 
were  Maafgbret  and  Elizabeth  Mac  Carty  portions  of  £2,000 
each  thereoff^  Charles  Mac  Carty  was  allowed  a  r^naindei^ 
for  years  in  other  bnds  of  tile  Earl,  as  was  JohaaAa  Mai) 
Carty^  relict  and  administratrix  of  Doaongh,  son  of  Cormiek^ 
son  of  Dermod  Mac  Cfeuiy,  fei  fidmiklf  remainder.  Anoth^ 
Dertood  Mao  Carty  imd  Ellen  his  wife  clakned  a  like  interest 
off  other  portions — ^&aUowed;  as  Were  didms  f<»r  residues  of 
terms  sought,  on  behiedf  of  Hden  Mac  Carty,  by  Catherine 
Mac  Carty  her  mother  and  guardian;  finr  Denis  Mac  Carty, 
another  minor,  by  his  guardian;  and  for  Teigue,  Charles, 
Donogh,  CallAgfaan,  Daniel,  And  Cathenne,  minots,  by  Thady 
0*Cal1aghan,  theor  guardian.  Various  other  claims  wars 
adtanoed,  as  attaching  to  this  immense  territory,  and  some  few 
wers  allowed.-^— The  chief  purchasers  of  these  seveial  estates 
from  the  Commissioners  of  the  Forfeitures  were  Alderman 
James  SVsndi,  Sir  Bichard  Pyne,  Knight,  Lord  Chief  Justice 
of  the  Common  Pleas;  Frands  Bernard,  John  Morison  of 
Cork,  John  Braithwaite,  M.D.,  Heniy  Baldwin,  WiUiam 
Dunscomb,  William  Nodder,  Thomas  Ware,  Alderman 
Edward  Hosre,  Gteoige  Rogers,  Thomas  Brockksby,  William 
Spread,  Danid  Connor,  Thomas  Wallis,  Catherine  Harris^ 
Thomas  Putland,  John  Aj^iU,  Stephen  Ludlow,  and,  yet 
more,  the  HdUow  Swords  Bbdes'  Company. 

Li  June,  1704,  this  EarVs  Countess  died  at  the  place  of  his 
exile,  leaving  issue  by  him  two  sons,  Bobert  and  Justin.  His 
attainder  was  rerersed  and  his  holionrs  restored  in  1721,  but 


EABii  or  CLAKOAirrrli  iKVAimr.  119 

hd  nerer  rettinied,  and  died  at  his  island  retreat  in  October, 
1734,  aged  64.  Hia  aon  and  heir  Bobert  resided  many  years 
at  BottlognMnir-mer,  where  he  lived  an  Irish  hospitable  life— 
(see  Walker'^  Bibemian  Magazine  for  1796,  p.  12,  &c.) — ^not 
however  without  efforts  to  recover  some  portion  of  his  forfeited 
estates,  as  is  disclosed  hj  a  petition  to  the  Irish  House  of 
Commons  in  1739,  from  certain  inhabitants  of  the  Connly  of 
Cork,  complaining  that  near  four  score  distinct  and  separate 
suits  at  law  were  bdng  carried  on  against  the  petitioners,  and 
others,  proprietars  of  estates  in  said  County,  to  their  great 
vexation  and  expense,  and  the  lessening  of  the  Protestant 
interest;  and  praying  to  be  released  therefrom  by  Parliament. 
He  died  in  1770,  aged  84,  he  also  leaving  two  sons*  The 
Brigade  Begiment  known  as  Clancarty*s  was  commanded  by 
Bogar  Mo  ElHcott  (who  had  been  Governor  of  Cork  when  it 
was  taken  by  the  Earl  of  Marlborou^);  Edward  Scott  was 
its  Lieutenant-Colonel,  and  John  Murphy  its  Major.  [The 
head  of  the  Mac  Carthy  Beagh  settled  in  France,  where  he 
died  at  Argenton  in  1761.  His  son  Justin  Mac  Carthy 
established  himself  at  Toulouse,  and  was  in  1776  created  a 
Comte.]  He  collected  a  library,  second  in  its  extent  only  to 
that  of  the  King  of  France,  comprising  a  very  great  number 
of  printed  and  manuscript  books  on  vellum;  and  on  his  death 
in  1812,  this  magnificent  collection,  like  the  estates  of  the 
fiimily  a  century  previous,  was  scattered  amongst  strangers.* 
[Comte  Justin,  by  his  wife  Mary-'Wmifred  Tuite,  daughter 
of  Nidu^  Tuite,  of  Tuitestown,  County  Westmeaih,  had 
issue  Bobert,  who  succeeded  him  as  Comte  Mac  Carthy  Beaghu 
He  was  bom  in  1770,  left  France  on  the  Bevolution,  but,  at 
the  Bestoration  of  the  Bourbons  in  1814,  he  received  the  grade 

*  CtCMaghmCi  Green  Boek,  p.  ^81. 


120  KIN0  JAM£8*8  IBI8H  ABMT  LIST. 

of  Mar^chal  de  Camp  de  Cavalerie,  and  was  invested  with 
general  military  orders.  He  died  at  Lyons  in  1827,  leaving, 
by  his  wife,  Emelie-Marie  de  Bressay,  a  son,  Justin-Marie- 
Laurent-BobertComteMacCarthyfieagh.]  ^e/^O'CaUagharis 
Brigades f  v.  1,  pp.  325-6,  where  are  noted  other  Mac  Carthys 
distinguished  in  France,  Austria,  America,  &c. 


LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  SKELTON. 


Hb  came  over  with  King  James  firom  France  a  Lieutenant- 
Colonel,  whereby  it  must  be  presumed  he  had  seen  service 
abroad.  Nothing  however  has  been  ascertained  of  his  con- 
nexions. On  the  Attainders  of  1691  appear  the  names  of  John 
Skelton,  of  Dublin,  Esq.,  and  of  Maria  Skelton,  aliaa  O'Brien, 
wife  of  Bevil  Skelton. 


CAPTAIN  LOBD  UPPEB  OSSOBY. 

The  Mac  GiUa  Phadruig  (Fitz-Patrick),  deducing  his  lineage 
from  Heremon,  was  in  the  early  period  of  Irish  history  Buler 
of  Ossory,  a  territory  extending  over  the  whole  country  between 
the  rivers  Nore  and  Suir ;  and  the  native  annals  are  full  of 
that  Sept's  lineage,  charitable  foundations,  and  achievements, 
the  castles  they  erected,  and  the  abbeys  they  founded  and 
endowed.  In  1314  Edward  the  Second  directed  his  official 
letter  missive  to  Donogh  Mac  Oille-Patrick,  as  Chief  of  his 
Nation,  for  service  and  aid  in  the  war  to  Scotland.  In  two 
centuries  afterwards  the  Chief  of  his  Sept  having  some  cause 


EABL  OV  CLAKCABTY'S  INVAKTBT.  121 

to  complain  to  Henry  the  Eighth  of  the  Earl  of  Ormond,  hia 
Deputy  in  the  GK)yemment,  and  received  no  redress,  solemnly 
despatched  a  herald  to  the  English  Court,  who  by  his  order 
publicly  announced  to  Henry  that  if  he  did  not  chastise  the 
Ormond  the  Mac  Gilla  Phadruig  would  wage  war  against  him. 
In  1541  Brian  Mac  Gilla  Phadruig  was  created  Baron  of  Upper 
Ossory,  and  as  such  sat  in  Parliament.  He  married  the 
eldest  daughter  of  tiie  Earl  of  Ormond,  and  had  by  her 
Bamaby  the  Second  Baron,  who  was  the  companion  and 
&Yourite  of  Edward  the  Sixth.  Four  letters  of  his  to  that 
young  King,  relating  interesting  drcumstances  connected 
with  the  war  in  France  and  Flanders,  are  preserved  in  the 
British  Museum,  as  are  two  others  from  him  to  the  Earl  of 
Leicester,  dated  in  1578  and  1579  fix)m  Dublin  Castle,  where, 
having  incurred  Queen  Elizabeth's  displeasure,  he  was  confined 
a  state  prisoner.  In  the  last  letter  he  sought  to  obtain  the 
EarVs  interposition  with  the  Queen,  accompanying  his  petition 
with  a  present  of '  a  very  fidr  hawk  of  a  tried  agrea*  In  the 
State  Papers  of  this  reign,  Florence  and  Greoffirey  are  mentioned 
as  younger  sons  of  the  Earl  of  Ossory.  The  former  became 
the  third  Baron  and,  having  married  Catherine  O'More  of 
Leix,  he  had  by  her  five  sons — 1,  Thady,  his  successor;  2, 
John  of  Castletown,  progenitor  of  the  Earls  of  Upper  Ossory ; 
3,  GreofBrey  of  Ballyraghen ;  4,  Bamaby,  aliaa  Brian  of  Water 
Castle ;  and  5,  Edmund.  When  Sir  John  Perrot  convened 
the  Conciliation  Parliament  of  1585,  "  thither  went  Mc  Gill 
Phadruig  of  Ossory,  namely  Fingin,  the  son  of  Bryan,  son  of 
Fingin.*  In  1608  Teigue,  son  of  John,  Mac  Gilpatrick  pre- 
ferred a  daim  for  the  castle  town  and  lands  of  Ballygihon,  with 
other  lands  in  the  Queen's  County,  from  Florence  Fitz  Patrick 

*  Arwtab  of  the  Few  Masters^  ad  ann. 


ISS  KHTG  JIMBB'B  IBIBH  ABMT  LIST. 

then  Baron  of  Upper  Ofisory,  by  whom  he  alleged  he  had  been 
deprived  thereof.  His  daim  however  was  dismist  in  Chancery, 
on  the  ground  of  bastardy,  and  he  was  left  to  his  remedy  at 
common  law.  In  four  years  after,  ESng  James  granted  to 
that  Baron  the  sites  of  the  religious  houses  of  Aghmacart  and 
Aghaboe,  with  other  eodiesiastioal  properties  in  the  Queen*s 
County  and  County  Ejlkenny.  In  1628  died  Edmund,  son 
of  John  Fitz  Patriok,  seised  of  sundry  lands  in  the  Queen's 
County,  leaving  John  his  hdr,  then  of  fiill  age  and  married; 
he  died  in  1680,  Teigue  his  hdr  being  only  five  years  of  age. 

In  1631  Daniel  iltz  Patriok  died  seised  of  Gortnadea 

and  other  hmdsin  the  Queen's  County,in  tail  male,  remainder 
to  Thady,  late  Baron  of  Upper  Ossory  and  his  heirs  male,  and, 
in  defiiult  of  such  heirs,  to  the  right  hms  of  said  Florence. 
On  the  death  of  this  Daniel,  Bryan  succeeded  as  his  son  and 
heir,  bdng  then  of  age  and  unmarried.  At  the  Supreme 
Council  of  Kilkenny  Bryan  Fits^Patrick,  Bacon  of  Upper 
Ossory,  wis  of  the  Temporal  Peers ;  while  Florence  Fita^ 
Patrick  of  Ldsdunveamey  was  of  the  Commons.  Cromwell's 
Ordinance  of  1652  excepted  the  above  Florence  Fit^Patrick 
and  Colonel  John  his  son  from  pardon  for  life  and  estate.  In 
nine  years  after,  Bryan  Fitz-Patrick,  the  sixth  Lord  of  Upper 
Ossory,  who  in  the  dvil  war  of  1641  had  taken  the  port  of 
Boyalty,  and  been  consequently  indicted  by  the  usurping 
powers,  claimed  his  seat,  and  was  allowed  same  when  by  a 
a  vote  of  the  House  of  Commons  it  was  resolved  that  their 
whole  body  should  accompany  him  to  the  Peers,  which  was 
done  accordingly.  He  afterwards  petitioned  to  be  restored 
to  8,000  acres  of  his  estates,  as  did  Ccdonel  John  of  Castle^ 
town,  for  better  security  to  his  property;  and  subsequent 
patents  of  Charles  the  Second  reserved  special  rights  of  the 
Earl  of  Ossory  therein.— -As  the  honours  of  this  fiimily  are 


in  abejBtiee,  attd  thid  desoeat  of  many  of  itd  linee  obficore,  it 
may  be  here  menlaoaed  that  in  1674, 28th  January,  'was  buried 
in  the  old  graveyaid  of  the  Cath^^oaristoeAoy  at  St.  Jamee's, 
Dublin,  Dr.  ^nukdy  Fitz-Patrick,  eon  to  TeigUe  C%e  Fitz- 
patriok  of  AUpe,  ton  to  Dermot  of  Ballyrellin,  son  to  Teigue 
Oge  Mao  Teigoe  o£  Munnidrohid.  This  Dr.  Thady  married 
Julian,  daughter  of  Pierce  Martin  of  Galimy,  m^^chant,  son 
of  Walter  Martin;  and  had  issue  by  h^  divers  children,  of 
whom  ^  survive '  three  sons,  Beitriok,  John^  and  James,  and 
two  daughters,  Christian  and  Axme,  as  is  testified,  in  a  Funeral 
Entry  in  Bermingham  Tower,  by  Julian  Martin,  the  widow 

widow  had  agrant  of  411  acres  in  Clare  foit  her  life,  remainder 
to  her  aon  Dermot  Gidlopatridk  for  evor. 

The  Captain  on  this  Begiment  was  Bryan  Fitscpatrick,  the 
seveutii  Banm  of  Uppcar  Ossory>  whose  exploits  at  Mens  are 
Mfy  detailed  in  Harris's  Life  of  WiUiam  the  TTUrcL*  Hehad 
a  pension  of  £100  per  annum  firom  Charles  the  Second,  which 
was  on  the  Ist  of  January,  1687,  continued  to  him  by  Eling 
James.  He  sat  in  the  Parliament  of  Dublin,  was  attainted  in 
1691,  and  died  in  1698.  He  had  been  married  three  times, 
but  left  no  issue  by  any  of  his  wives.  In  the  Act  '*  to  hinder 
the  reversal  of  several  Outlawries  and  Attainders,'*  passed  in 
the  sixth  year  of  WiUiam  the  Third,  it  was  provided  that  the 
same  should  not  extend  to  confirm  the  outlawries  of  the  late 
Earl  of  Upper  Ossory,  but  the  same  might  be  capable  of  bdng 
reversed,  in  such  manner  as  iFthat  Act  had  never  been  made. 
On  his  decease  his  nephew  assumed  the  title,  but  it  wasdetued 
to  him  at  law,  and  this  ancient  Barony  has  been  considered 
thence  extinct.    At  Chicdiester  House,  the  Lady  Dorothy, 

*  See  its  Index,  TMn  'Oisovy '  and  ^Mons.' 


124  KING  JAHES'S  IBI8H  ABKT  LIST. 

the  Earrs  third  wife,  claimed,  as  Baroness  Dowager  of  Upper 
Ossory,  a  long  term  for  years  in  the  Queen^s  County  estates, 

forfeited  by  her  lord's  attainder. ^Of  the  name  there  appear 

also  on  this  '  Army  List/ Fitz  Patrick,  the  Surgeon  on 

Lord  Abercom's  Horse ;  another  Fitz  Patrick,  Captain  in  Sir 
Maurice  Eustace's  Be^ment  of  Infantry ;  a  third,  Captwi  in 
Colonel  Edmund  O'Reilly's ;  also  John  Fitzpatrick  a  Captain, 
and  Darby  Fitzpatrick  a  Lieutenant,  in  Colonel  Edward  But- 
ler's; this  Captwi  John  afterwards  became  a  Major,  and  was 
taken  prisoner  in  the  service.  He  was  described  in  his 
attwider  as  '  of  Kilkenny,'  while  Lieutenant  Darby  was  styled 
of  Clooneen,  Queen's  County.  A  Thady  Fitzpatrick,  probably 
a  relative  of  the  above  Dr.  Thady,  was  in  1689  Deputy 
Lieutenant  of  the  Queen's  County,  and  one  of  the  Represen- 
tatives for  Maryborough  in  the  Parliament  of  Dublin.  He 
too  was  attainted  in  1691,  but  afterwards  obtained  a  pardon 
under  the  Great  Seal. 

Besides  those  before  mentioned,  there  were  also  attainted  in 
1691  Terence  Fitzpatrick  of  Kilbredelegg,  Bryan  of  Money- 
driluch  and  Killdeley,  Redmond  of  Ealmanbought,  Charles  of 
Bamyballeragh,  and  Florence  of  Clonaghill,  all  in  their  native 
County  (the  Queen's) ;  while  Dermott  Fitzpatrick  was  a  for- 
feiting proprietor  in  the  County  of  Clare.  At  the  siege  of 
Deny  a  Lieutenant  Fitzpatrick  was  killed  '^in  the  orchard  on 
the  other  ode  of  the  walls."*  On  the  first  of  May,  1691, 
*'  Major  Wood,  having  notice  that  the  rapparees  were  in  great 
force  about  Brittas  in  the  Queen's  County,  went  out  with  300 
of  my  Lord  Greorge  Hamilton's  and  Colonel  Lloyd's  Foot  and 
fifty  of  Colonel  Byerly's  Horse,  with  which  he  first  killed  nigh 
seventy  Bapparees,  and,  leaving  part  of  his  men  to  secure 

*  Walker's  l^ege  of  Derry,  ^,  61. 


EABL  OF  CLANCABTT'S  IKTANTBT.  125 

passes,  he  went  three  miles  further  beyond  a  place  called  the 
Togher  of  Malahone,  having  with  him  110  Foot  and  30  Horse ; 
but,  instead  of  the  rapparees  whom  only  he  expected,  he  espied 
two  bodies  of  the  Irish  army  said  to  be  near  eight  hundred  in 
number.  These  he  encountered,  and  after  several  charges  at 
different  places  put  them  to  the  rout,  killing  one  hundred  and 
fifty  on  the  place,  amongst  whom  was  one  Captain  Sheales  ; 
and  he  took  Major  John  Fitzpatrick  (before  alluded  to)  pri- 
soner, who  conunanded  the  party,  and  seventeen  officers  more, 
with  fflx  sergeants,  sixteen  corporals,  two  drummers,  and  also 
eighty  privates.***  In  1693,  at  the  battle  of  Landon,  a  Colonel 
Fitzpatrick  was  wounded  ;t  and  in  1696,  Brigadier-General 
Edward  Fitzpatrick  was  drowned  in  the  Holyhead  packet 
with  several  other  officers.  The  vessel  was  cast  away  by  a 
violent  storm  near  Sutton,  on  the  Dublin  coast.  He  was  the 
eld^r  brother  of  Richard  first  Lord  Gowran,  the  son  of  which 
latter  nobleman  was  afterwards,  in  1751,  created  Earl  of  Upper 

08sory4 

This,  the  first  earl,  marrying  Lady  Evelyn  Leveson  Gower, 
had  issue  by  her  two  sons,  John,  the  eldest,  was  bom  in  1745, 
succeeded  his  fiither  in  the  title  in  1750,  and  died  in  1818. 
He  is  said  to  have  much  regretted  his  own  and  his  immediate 
ancestors*  absentedsm,  and,  as  in  his  own  words,  lamenting 
that  '  he  had  not  done  much  for  Ireland;*  he  determined  to 
settle  his  property  there  in  a  manner  that  would  benefit  a  re- 
sident proprietary.  As  an  effective  movement  towards  this 
object,  when  last  in  this  country,  he  projected  the  erection  at 
Castietown,  near  the  site  of  the  old  baronial  residence,  of  a 
noble  mansion,  corresponding  with  the  lordly  attitude  of  those 

*  Story*8  ImparUal  History^  part  11.,  p.  78.  f  Rctwdon  Papers^  p.  379. 

t  Lodges  Peerage^  edited  by  Ardbdall,  voL  2,  p.  846. 


126  Kim  James's  ibish  abut  U6t. 


who  had  for  oenturiea  ruled  over  the  surrpiuidiiig  ooimtry; 
but  his  death  occorring  soon  after  defeated  thia  meritorious 
design.  By  his  will  his  younger  children  were  left  under  the 
guardianship  of  Lord  Holland,  while  his  bobs  the  present 
!^ight  Honourable  John  Wilson  Fitzpatrick,  and  the  late 
JUchard  Fitzpatrick)  held  commissions,  the  former  i^i  the  85th 
Light  Infantry  and  the  latter  in  the  Orenadier  Guards.  John 
Wilsqn  Fitzpatrick  may  thus  now  be  considered  the  represen- 
tative o{  this  yezy  aneie^^  and  historic  aept,  and  hi^  character 
thrpugh  life  evinces  him  worthy  of  that  distinction.  He  is  a 
Pr^vy  Councillor  and  Lord  Lieutenant  of  that  County,  which 
^jvas  the  impiemorial  heritage  of  his  name;  he  had  also  repre- 
sented it  in  Parliament  for  fourteen  yeafs,  and  has  devoted 
his  latter  life  and  his  resouroes,  as  the  late  Earl  wiahed, 
to  ih€|  improvement  of  his  estates  and  the  a4vanceinent  ^^d 
comfort  of  his  tenantry.  To  promote  these  (]tl:{jeot8  he  has, 
through  the  experience  of  his  able  agent|  John  Bobinson 
Price,  Esq.,  appropriated  the  most  liberal  disbursements  annu- 
aUy  for  the  last  twenty  yean  on  their  holdings,  their  bouses, 
an4  ^^^  fam-buildings.  Miles  of  roads,  drains,  fenc^,  and 
pl|uatations  have  entirely  changed  the  character  of  that  portion 
odoA  estates,  in  the  Queen's  County  bordering  on  Tipperary, 
in  which  vicinity,  Li^duff,  the  prqjected  future  family  residence, 
(Grantstown  manor  being  their  present),  abready  evinces,  by 
its  commanding  aspect,  extent,  high  cultivation,  judicious  and 
ifaried  groupings  of  timber,  the  m^mifieence  and  taste  of  the 
proprietor. 

Of  the  vast  patrimonial  possessions  of  the  Fitzpatricks,  after 
all  the  spoliation  and  vicissitudes  to  which  property  in  Ireland 
has  been  subjected,  some  21,000  acres  of  the  best  parts  of 
Qssory  yet  remain  to  their  existing  representative.  His  noble 
&ther  was  much  relied  upon  by  the  great  whig  party  in  Eng- 


£Aiil<  OF  QLAyqA^rr'fii  p^faktst.  1?7 


bpd  for  itiA  d$pth,  xpgden^tiop,  «n4  smpijIfieaB  of  bis  ^iewss 
wliUe  hia  mcki9  Qwerpl  Siohai4  Fitzpatriolc,  whp  wiib  Chief 
Secretary  of  Ireland  iinmediately  before  the  memorable  Pe^la- 
ration  of  Ireland^s  Independence  in  1782,  hj  his  judgment, 
patriotism,  and  identity  of  views  with  his  friend  and  kinsman, 
the  illustrious  James  Charles  Fox,  contributed  very  essentially 
to  the  &vourable  issue  of  tiie  political  ev^its  of  that  period  in 
Ireland. 

Mr.  Fitzpatrick*s  own  opinions  and  public  principles  have 
been  modelled  by  those  of  the  purest  and  most  distinguished 
statesmen  of  the  day,  and  in  his  public  life  he  has  been  much 
guided  by  the  conduct  and  example  of  the  Marquess  of  Lans- 
downe,  whose  &ther,  the  first  Marquess,  had  mfuried,  in  177p, 
the  Lady  Louisa  Fitzpatrick,  sister  of  John  the  last  Earl  of 
Upper  Ossory.  Lady  Mary  her  sister  }ifui  previously  become 
the  wife  of  the  second  Lord  Holland,  thus  linking  the  fiunily 
under  consideration  witii  Holland  House  and  its  long  revered 
celebrities.  The  only  surviving  sister  of  Mr.  John  Wilson 
Fitzpatrick,  Emma  Mary,  became  the  wife  of  Mr.  Vernon 
Sinitii,  late  Freddent  of  the  India  Board,  and  who,  during 
the  ministry  of  Lord  Palmerston,  was  raised  to  tiie  Peerage 
by  the  titie  of  Lord  Lyveden.  Mr.  Fitzpatrick  himself  married 
Augusta,  daughter  of  the  Bey.  Archibald  Douglas  of  the 
Queensberry  fiunily,  who,  by  her  mother,  Lady  Susan  Murray, 
is  grand-daughter  of  John,  fourth  Earl  of  Dunmore ;  a  fiunily 
that  by  its  own  lineage,  as  well  as  by  affinity  with  those  of 
Athol  and  Gralloway ,  blends  the  noblest  blood  of  England  and 
Scotiand,  descending  not  only  firom  their  Koyal  Houses,  but 
also  from  the  Kings  of  France.  By  this  lady  Mr.  Fitzpatrick 
has  ^^  acgomplidied  fiunily  of  ^^ughtefs,  with  only  one  sop 
surviving,  g(  very  tender  yeqrs  bi|t  most  aqsp^cious  promise. 
This  S^TQSurd  Fitfgpf^trick,  ^r  of  the  house,  lu^  styled  in  |us 


128  Kma  jahes*8  ibish  abict  list. 

fiunily  *  Mac  GrioUa  Phadniig  oge^  even  in  hia  boyhood  ex- 
hibits, with  rare  fidelity,  his  Other's  devotion  to  his  ooimtiy, 
and  to  all  the  kind  relations  of  his  home. 


ENSIGN  GARRET  DEASE. 

In  1628  died  James  Dease  of  Turbotstown,  in  the  County 
Westmeath,  leaving  Richard  his  son  and  heir,  then  aged 
twenty-five  and  married;  hs  had  issue  four  daughters.  Ensign 
Grarret  was  of  this  house,  where  the  fiunily  still  exists.  He 
was  attainted  in  1691,  as  were  Thomas,  son  of  Laurence 
Dease  of  Morterstown,  with  Richard  and  Edward  Dease  of 
Glanidan,  in  the  same  County,  who  were  officers  in  the 
infimtry  regiment  of  Colonel  Richard  Nugent. 


CAPTAIN HALL. 

This  surname  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of  the 
Tudors ;  and  a  Quarter-master,  Robert  Hall,  appears  in  the 
Adjudications  on  the  clidms  of  the  officers,  who  had  sought  to 
uphold  the  cause  of  Royalty  there  until  the  execution  of  Eling 
Charles.  No  *  Hall,'  however,  appears  on  the  Attainders  of 
1642  or  1691. 


ENSIGN DANIEL. 

Thbbe  individuals  of  this  name,  Colonel  John,  Captain  Isaac, 
and  Sampson  Daniel  are  recorded  on  the  aforesaid  Adjudica- 
tions on  claims  of  the  '  1649 '  officers.     Anthony  and  Dudley 


EARL  OP  CLANCABTT'S  INFANTRf .  129 

Daniel,  with  James,  son  of  Walter  Daniel,  all  described  as  of 
the  County  Wicklow,  were  attainted  in  1642  ;  while  those 
outlawed  in  1691  were  James  Daniel  of  Kells  and  David 
Daniel  of  the  Qneen^s  County.  The  name  is  of  record  in  Ire- 
land from  the  time  of  Bichard  the  Second, 


ENSIGN QUIGLEY. 

John  Quigley,  described  as  of  Carlow,  appears  to  have  been 
the  officer  here  in  commission;  he  was  outlawed  at  Leighlin 
in  April,  1691. 


ENSIGN  ^ —  CHAELETON.      ^ 

This  surname  is  absent  &om  the  Attainders  of  1691,  as  well 
as  from  those  of  1642  ;  but  a  Lieutenant  John  Charleton  ob- 
tained remimeration  in  1666,  as  one  of  the  officers  who  had 
sought  to  maintain  the  cause  of  Royalty  against  the  Usurping 
Powers,  and  the  name  is  otherwise  known  on  Irish  record  firom 
the  time  of  Edward  the  Second. 


VOL.  II. 


130 


KINO  James's  ibish  abut  list. 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 


Ctgriamt, 

LUutentmti* 

Eimgnif 

TheColoneL 

Paul  Daly. 

Jtmes  Bonrk, 

Bdward  Haddan, 

Biohard  de  Bvgo, 

David  Dowde. 

Lient-Col. 

/Andrew  Lynch. 
\Michael  Madden. 

Ifajor. 

Charles  Daly. 

Teigne  (^KeUy. 

Biyan  KeOy. 

John  Bonrke. 

*  Lnk'  Talbot 

Wiltiam  Kelly. 

Sir  Ulick  Bonrkt. 

GenadFarrell. 

Patrick  Bermingham. 

Jamet  Talbot 

John  FfrendL 

Edward  Bonrke. 

Hugh  Daly. 

William  Kelly. 

Henry  Crofton. 

Thady  Daly, 

John  Bourck. 

John  Stophenaon. 

Michael  Kadden. 

CUck  <Bouik.' 

John  Bermingham. 

John  Bonik. 

AnguBtin  Bodkin. 

William  Bermingham. 

John  TftlhAtt. 

Biyan  *Maghan.* 

TTIipk  Rmn^'A. 

Edmund  D'An^. 

Dowde. 

vfUvK  Dv%»xmn» 

Fitz  Maurice. 

Daly. 

Burke. 

Mileady. 

Dowde. 

Flahertie. 

—  Dowde. 

Rer. Burke,  Cht^Mn, 

Nowlan,  iSuvyeofi. 


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EARL  OF  CLANBICABPE'B  INFANTBT.  131 


CX)LONEL  THE  EABL  OF  CLANRICARDE, 

The  first  of  thia  i&oble  ffMnUy,  who  GWie  to  Ireland,  wgs 
William  Fitfs  Adelm  de  Burgo,  who  married  Isabella, 
daughter  of  JUchard  the  Second,  King  of  Englapdi  an4 
widow  of  the  celebrated  Llewellyn,  Prince  of  Wales.  He 
was  sent  by  Henry  the  Second  with  Hugh  de  liacie  into 
Ireland  to  recdve  the  submission  of  Jloderic  O'Conor,  King 
of  Connaught,  and  of  O^Melpighlin,  King  of  Meath,  at  which 
time  he  was  made  Governor  of  Wexford,  and  *  ^itrusted,  after 
King  Henry>  visit  to  the  country,  lirith  the  management  of 
affiiks  in  Ireland/  *  He  founded  with  pious  policy  the  great 
monastery  of  St.  Thomas  k  BeoJcet  in  Dublin*  obtained  in 
1179a  grant  of  a  great  portion  of  Connaugfat,  and  died  in  1204, 
His  son,  Bichaxd  de  Burgh,  the  giie^t  Lord  of  Connaught, 
Viceroy  of  Ireland  in  1227,  built  a  Castle  at  Galtray  in  1232 
and  at  Loughrea  in  1236,  and  died  in  1243,  wh^i  on  bis 
passage  to  France,  'attended  by  bis  Barons  and  Knights,* 
to  meet  the  King  of  England  at  Bourdeaux.  He  had  two 
sons,  Walter,  Lord  of  Connaught,  who  manying  Maud, 
daughter  and  heiress  of  Hugh  De  Lftcie  the  younger,  became 
in  her  right  Earl  ot  Ulster  on  the  deftth  of  his  &ther-in-law, 
mid  who  left  by  his  said  wife,  Bichard,  the  second  Earl  of 
Ulster,  commonly  known  aa  the  Bed  Earl.  His  great 
grand*daaghter,  the  Lady  Elizabeth  De  Burgh,  only  child 
and  heiress  of  William,  third  Earl  of  Ulster,  married  lionel, 
Duke  of  Clarence,  son  of  Edward  the  Third ;  from  which  union 

*  Sir  Bvnopd  Bwkit  Pseroffe^  *  CUmrkaarie*^ 


•^^f" 


132  KIKO  JAMES'S,.  IBI8H  ABMT  LIST. 

most  of  the  Crowned  Heads  of  Europe  have  descended ;  those 
of  England,  Scotland,  Denmark,  France,  Bohemia,  Sardinia, 
Spain,  Prussia,  Saxony,  Bavaria,  Hungary,  &c.,  as  all  laid 
down  on  authorities  and  in  tables  by  Doctor  Burke  Byan  of 
London,  with  a  kind  hope  that  it  might  suit  the  present 
work;  but  the  record  was  not  found  adequately  to  interest 
the  present  generation  of  the  Burkes.  The  leading  members 
of  the  fionily  and  name,  Peers  and  Baronets,  received  early 
intimation  of  the  scope  of  these  Ulustratiansj  and  of  their 
national  objects;  yet  none  submitted  their  manuscript  aid  or 
contributed  to  that  indemnity  Fund,  which  could  alone  justify 
the  compiler  in  giving  the  limited  edition  of  such  '  monster* 
volumes  at  a  price  far  under  first  cost.  The  present  Marquess 
of  Clanricarde  (whose  lineal  progenitor  commanded  the 
Regiment  here  under  consideration,  and  whose  collateral 
ancestry  crowded  the  army  of  James,  holding  conunissions 
in  thirty  of  his  Irish  Regiments),  when,  in  1854,  this  then 
projected  work  was  first  announced  to  his  Lordship,  was 
pleased  briefly  to  reply,  *•  I  confess  I  do  not  see  any  especial 
utility  in  a  republication  of  the  Lish  Army  List  of  1689-90, 
and  I  must,  therefore,  decline  to  subscribe  to  the  production 
of  such  a  work.'  Other  Peers,  Baronets,  and  Chiefs  of  the 
name  were  equally  reluctant  to  advance  the  undertaking, 
with  the  single  exception  of  Sir  Bernard  Burke,  the  present 
Ulster  King  of  Arms,  whose  name,  however,  amongst  the 
supporters  was  a  host.  The  introduction  of  Dr.  Burke 
Ryan's  valuable  Tables  was  therefore  then  and  since  with 
regret  abandoned;  while  the  circulation  of  the  first  edition 
and  the  character  it  has  received,  have  rather  verified  the 
author's  hopes  than  the  Marquess's  misgivings. 

William,  the  second  son  of  Richard  the  Lord  of  Connaught, 
derived  large  estates  (beyond  those  in  Connaught  and  Ulster) 


EABL  OF  GLANBIOABDE'S  INFANTBT.  133 

in  Tipperary,  where  according  to  his  namesake  de  Burgo, 
the  historian  of  the  Dominican  order,  the  name  was  then  still 
widely  extended ;  although,  a  few  years  previous  to  the  time 
of  that  laborious  writer,  a  large  portion  of  the  estates  of  the 
Tipperary  Bourkes  was  granted  to  Sir  Oliver  Lambert, 
£jiight  and  Privy  Councillor. 

An  Annal  of  the  Four  Masters,  in  1440,  seems  to  suggest 
an  adoption  of  the  custom  of  Tamstry  by  this  &mily;  'Mac 
William  Burke,  namely,  Walter,  the  son  of  Thomas,  son  of 
Sir  Edmund,  cUbanach^  lord  of  the  English  of  Connaught  and 
of  many  of  the  Irish,  died  of  the  plague,  a  week  before  the 
festival  of  the  cross  in  harvest,  when  Edmund  Burke,  his 
brother,  was  nominated  the  Mac  William  in  succession/  In 
1543  Ulick  de  Burgh  was  created  by  Henry  the  Eighth 
Baron  of  Dunkellin  and  Earl  of  Clanricarde,  and  he  dying 
was  succeeded  by  Richard,  the  second  Earl,  who,  when  Lord 
Lieutenant  of  Ireland  in  1553,  overthrew  the  Scots  on  the 
banks  of  the  Moy.  He  married  Margaret,  daughter  of 
Murrough,  Earl  of  Thomond,  and  died  in  1582.  *  Of  him, 
though  somewhat  varying  in  their  deduction  of  his  lineage, 
the  Four  Masters  have  an  interesting  commemoration  at  that 
year.  '  Bickard  Sassanach,  the  son  of  Ulick  of  the  Heads,' 
son  of  Bickard,  son  of  Ulick  of  Knocktoe,  son  of  Ulick 
Meadhanachf  son  of  Ulick  '  of  the  wine,*  who  had  been  taken 
prisoner,  by  the  Lord  Justice,  Sii*  Henry  Sydney,  in  the  year 
1576,  and  had  been  confined,  for  a  year  after  his  capture, 
in  Dublin  and  subsequently  in  London,  was  seized  in  the 
summer  of  this  year  with  a  lingering  consumptive  disease ; 
and  his  physicians  informed  him  that  he  was  more  likely  to 
die  than  to  recover  from  the  sickness,  and,  if  he  had  any 

*  Burked  Peerage^  *  Ckmrkarde,* 


Wk!J9L..J -79^R^^iBHinH^MaB9H^^MVVr ''^ 


134  tlKG  JAMEd'S  IBI8H  ABKT  LUTT. 

chance  of  recovering  his  health,  it  would  be  by  visiting  his 
native  place  and  living  in  the  air  of  his  own  country;  the 
Earl  was  therefore  allowed  to  return  to  Ireland  by  the 
Sovereign  and  Coundl,  and  a  pardon  was  gnuited  to  him 
for  his  sons,  and  foigiveness  for  all  the  depredations  they  had 
hitherto  committed.  He  first  landed  in  Dnblin»  then  pro- 
ceeded to  Athlone,  and  thence  to  the  town  of  Galway,  where 
he  was  welcomed  with  great  gladness;  he  remained  there  to 
recover  himself;  and  his  friends  and  relations  firom  among 
the  English  and  Irish,  came  to  visit  him.  When,  however, 
he  wished  to  go  to  vimt  his  people,  his  territory,  and  his  sons, 
his  malady  and  sickness  increased,  of  which  he  finally  died 
in  August.  His  oluiche  caainteath  (Irish  cry,  &c.)  was 
performed  by  his  merchant  fHends  in  that  town,  and  his 
corpse  was  conveyed  with  due  solemnity  to  be  interred  in  the 
town  of  Loughrea/ 

When  King  James  issued  his  mandate  in  1613  for  sum* 
moning  certain  individuals  to  the  Irish  House  of  Peers,  His 
Majesty's  letter  forbade  that  any  writ  should  issue  for  the 
Lord  Burk,  of  Castle  Coimell,  until  the  determination  of  a 
claim  to  that  dignity  made  by  his  elder  brother's  son,  then  a 
minor*  Richard,  the  grandson  of  the  second  Earl,  and  who 
himself  became  the  fourth,  was  sumamed  ^of  Kinmle^  from 
the  valour  he  displayed  at  that  memorable  place.  He  was, 
in  1624,  created  an  English  Baron  and  Viscount,  and,  in 
1628,  advanced  to  the  Earldom  of  St.  Alban's.  He  married 
a  lady  who  had  been  the  widow  of  Sir  Philip  Sydney,  and 
subsequently  of  Queen  Elizabeth's  unfortunate  favourite,  the 
Earl  of  Essex,  and  he  died  in  1635,  leaving  Ulick,  his  only 
son,  afterwards  advanced  to  the  Marquisate  of  Clanricarde, 
whose  published  Memoirs  and  Letters  sadly  illustrate  the  pro- 
gress of  Cromwell's  usurpation  in  Ireland. 


EABL  OF  GLANBICABDS'S  DCFANTBT.  13$ 

The  Attainden  of  1642  give  but  one  of  this  name,  John 
Bonrke,  described  as  '  of  Dublin/  At  the  Supreme  Council 
of  1646,  John  '  Burke/  Bishop  of  Clonfert,  was  of  the  Spiritual 
Peers ;  William  Burke,  Baron  of  Castleconnell,  of  the  Tem- 
poral ;  and  of  the  Conunons  were  John  Burke  of  Castlecaroe, 
Richard  of  Drumrusk,  William  of  Pollardstown,  Bichard  of 
Shellewly,  Theobald  of  Buolyburk,  and  Ulick  Burke  of  Glinsk. 
CromwelTs  Act  '  for  settling  Ireland '  excepted  from  pardon 
for  life  and  estate  Miles  *  Bourk,'  Viscount  Mayo,  Sir  Theo- 
bald Bourk  his  son;  Edmund  of  Cloghan,  County  of  Mayo: 
Thomas  of  Anbally,  and  Redmond  of  Kiloomin,  both  in  the 
County  of  GUway.  The  Royal  declaration  of  thanks,  as  for 
servioes  beyond  the  seas,  includes  the  names  of  the  Earl  of 
Clanrioarde  ;  David  Bourk  of  Bamaolahie,  County  of  Tip- 
perary;  Sir  Ulick  Bourk,  Knight  and  Baronet,  of  Glinsk; 
Lieutenant  William  Bourice  of  Turlough,  County  of  Mayo ; 
and  Captain  William  Mac  Redmond  Bourke. 

In  1667  liientenant  John  Bourke  had  a  confirmatory  grant 
of  2,338  acres  in  Sligo,  as  had  Nicholas  Bourke  of  4,039  in 
Limerick;  Sir  Ulick  Burke,  in  1678,  for  4,222  in  Galway; 
Robert  ^  Burgh '  for  2,447  in  Monaghan ;  Ulysses  Burgh  for 
187  in  limerick  and  176  in  the  Eang's  County;  and  John 
Burke  for  4,325  in  Galway.  In  1679  Thomas  Burke  passed 
patent  for  795  acres  in  the  last-named  County,  with  22  in 
Clare ;  as  did  Miles,  Lord  Viscount  Burke,  brother  and  heir 
to  Theobald,  late  Lord  Viscount  Mayo,  in  1680  for  54,047 
acres,  all  in  IVhyo;  and  Richard  Burke  in  the  same  year  for 
DerrymacUaghney  and  other  lands,  1,943  acres,  in  Gralway; 
while  Ulick  Bourke  had  in  1681  a  grant  of  861  acres  in  the 

same  County. ^In  King  James's  Charters  John  Burke  was 

one  of  the  burgesses  in  that  to  Kilmallock,  as  was  William 
Burke  in  that  to  Tuam,  Francis  Burke  in  one  to  Cavan,  Sir 


136  KING  JAMBS'S  nUBH  ABMT  LIST. 

Ulick  in  another  to  Athlone ;  William  Bonrke  and  Thomas, 
son  of  Redmond  Bourke,  were  burgesses  in  one  to  Atheniy, 
as  were  Walter,  Thomas,  Edmund,  Myles,  and  David  Bourke 
in  that  to  Castlebar.  Sir  Oliver  Bourke,  Baronet,  was  of  the 
Aldermen  in  that  of  Limerick,  and  John  Bourke  was  Provost 
in  the  Charter  to  Roscommon. 

In  the  Parliament  of  1689  sat  among  the  Peers  this  Earl  of 
Clanricarde,  the  Viscount  Mayo,  the  Lord  Castleconnell,  Lord 
Bophin,  and  Lord  Brittas.  The  father  of  this  latter  nobleman, 
the  Honourable  William  Bourke,  served  in  the  Royalist  cause 
during  the  civil  war  of  1641,  and  by  Cromwell's  order  was 
executed  at  Cork  in  1653.  His  son,  the  Lord  here  spoken  of 
served  as  above,  a  Colonel  in  King  James's  army.  He  married 
the  Lady  Honora,  daughter  of  Morrough,  the  first  Eari  of 
Lichiquin,  by  whom  he  left  a  son,  disinherited  by  his  attainder. 
This  son,  who  resided  at  St.  Germains,  not  acknowledging  a 
revolutionary  atUdnder,  retained  the  title  of  Lord  Brittas,  and 
died  in  France,  leaving  issue  by  his  wife,  Catherine,  daughter 
of  Colonel  Gordon  O'Neill,  two  sons;  John,  styled  Lord 
Brittas,  a  Captain  in  the   French  service  ;   and  Thomas,  a 

Lieutenant-General  in  the  Sardinian.* In  the  Commons 

sat  Sir  Ulick  Bourke,  one  of  the  Representatives  for  Gralway ; 
John  of  Carricknihill,  one  for  Askeaton ;  Walter,  one  for  the 
County  of  Mayo;  Thomas  for  Castlebar;  William  Bourke  of 
Carrowford  for  the  Borough  of  Tuam;  and  John  Bourke  for 
the  County  of  Roscommon.  Besides  this,  the  Earl  of  Clan- 
ricarde's  Regiment,  Walter  Bourke  was  Colonel  of  a  second 
Re^ment  of  Lifantry,  Patrick  of  a  third,  and  Michael  of  a 
fourth ;  while  the  name  appears  commissioned  in  twenty-nine 
other  Regiments  on  this  List. 

*  Burke's  Extinct  Peerage. 


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EABL  OF  CLAKRIGABDE's  INFANTBT.  137 

At  the  siege  of  Derry  in  1689,  a  Lieutenant  Burke  was 
killed  on  the  occasion  of  the  attack,  by  the  windmill.*  In  the 
following  year,  William  Bourke  of  the  Mayo  line,  who  had 
been  appointed  Governor  of  the  Castle  of  Change  in  the 
County  of  Sligo,  was  ordered  by  King  James  to  defend  it ; 
when,  being  vigorously  besieged  and  disappointed  of  promised 
succours,  at  the  moment  that  the  besiegers  were  about  to  enter 
the  breach  he  blew  up  the  Castle,  and  with  many  of  his  enemies 
was  buried  in  the  ruins.  On  the  7th  of  June,  1691,  Baron  de 
Ginkell  appeared  b^ore  Ballymore  on  the  line  to  Athlone,  and 
summoned  the  Irish  Governor,  Sir  Ulick  Burke,  to  surrender. 
"  The  garrison  consisted  of  800  men,  the  ^ite  of  the  Irish, 
being  picked  men  from  all  the  Regiments.  In  the  space  of 
twenty-four  hours,  six  batteries  crumbled  all  the  works  to  the 
south,  and  the  appearance  of  a  flotilla  on  the  lake  induced  a 
surrender.  Burke,  the  Governor,''  adds  O'Conor,  ^'  is  charged 
with  treachery  and  cowardice  in  King  James's  Memoir;  it 
would  appear  rather  that  vanity  induced  the  defence,  and 
incapacity  the  surrender.^t  but  it  appears  that  the  Governor 
had  no  greater  artillery  in  the  place  than  '  two  small  Turkish 
pieces  mounted  upon  old  cart  wheels;}  and  the  Irish  En- 
gineer,   Lieutenant-Colonel    Burton,    had    been    slain. 

Colonel  David  Burke  was  killed  at  Aughrim  with  another 
Ulick  Burke,  who  had  been  for  a  time  Governor  of  Galway  ;§ 
while  a  Colonel  Neill  Burke,  his  Lieutenant,  with  Colonel 
Walter  Burke  and  Lord  Bophin,  were  taken  prisoners.  On 
the  2nd  of  September,  1691,  writes  Story,  ^'Brigadier  Levison, 
learning  where  Lord  Merrion's  and  Lord  Brittas's  Begiments 
lay,  marched  as  privately  as  he  could  that  way ;  and  about  one 

♦  Walker'9  Siege  of  Derry,  p.  61.  f  (yGonnoT'e  MUa.  Mem.,  p.  185. 

t  Story's  Impartkil  HisL  pt.  IL,  p.  87.      §  Clarke's  James  II.,  v.  2,  p.  459. 


138  KING  JAMES'S  IBI8H  ABICT  LIST. 

o'clock  in  the  morning  he  fell  in  with  them,  killing  seretal  and 
dispersing  the  rest,  Lord  Merrion  himself  (Th<«uaB  Fitz- 
William)  escaping  nanrowly.  Then  he  divided  his  party  to 
pursue  their  broken  troops,  but  they  knowing  that  country, 
made,  most  of  them,  a  shift  to  escape/** 

The  Colonel  of  this  Begiment  was  a  Privy  Councillor, 
and  was  appointed  Governor  of  Gralway  by  King  James; 
which,  having  been  besieged  by  Be  Ginkell  fourteen  days 
after  the  battle  of  Aughrim,  he  was  compelled  to  surrender,  f 
O'Conor,  in  his  Military  Memoirs  (voL  1,  p.  161)  denounces 
this  surrender  as  a  treacherous  compromise^  "Lord  Clan- 
ricarde,"*  writes  that  historian,  '*  inherited  neither  the  courage 
nor  the  loyalty  of  his  ancestor,  the  great  Earl  of  St.  Albans; 
he  compounded  his  honour  for  personal  security,  and,  quitting 
the  service  of  James,  remained  at  Oalway,  though  by  the 
capitulation  he  was  at  liberty  to  march  to  Limerick."  The 
Outlawries  of  1591  include  this  Earl  by  two  Inquisitions 
with  William,  Baron  of  Castleconnell,  and  Ulick,  Lord 
"Yiscount  Gralway,  Lord  Brittas,  and  John  his  son;  eighteen 
Burkes  or  Bourkes  in  Mayo; "John  Burke  of  Ower,  and 
fifteen  others  in  Galway ;  six  in  Limerick,  five  in  Boscommon, 
two  in  Dublin  and  Wexford  respectively,  and  one  in  each  of 
the  Counties  of  Sligo,  Cavan,  and  the  Queen's.  Jn  1696 
the  name  of  the  Lady  Honora  Burke,  alicu  Sarsfield,  and  then 
Duchess  of  Berwick  bef(»:e  alluded  to  was  entered  in  the 
Outlawries.  Sir  Ulick  the  Baronet  was  also  attainted,  but 
adjudged  within  the  benefit  of  the  Articles  of  Limerick. 

Although  flourishing  in  an  age  subsequent  to  the  events  of 
this  war,  the  name  of  The  Bight  Bev.  Dr.  Thomas  Burke, 
better  known  as  De  Burgo,  Bishop  of  Ossory,  must  not  be 
^^-^"~^~"^"^^^^^"^*~-"^"~"""^~"^^— ^^■^■""^^■^■~^^^"^— ^'-■^^^■^^~"~"^~"— ^— ^— ^^i— i—^i^—i— ^^^^-^— ^^^-^>ii»— i^*— 

*  Impartial  History^  pt  11.,  p.  204.        f  ClarkeU  James  //.,  voL  2,  p.  459. 


EABL  OF  GLANBICABDE'S  INFAKTKT.  139 

overlooked  in  this  illastmtion  of  the  name.  He  was  bom  in 
1705,  and  earlj  deroted  to  the  monastic  life  as  a  Dominican; 
he  was  a  learned  and  excellent  divine,  and  author  of  several 
valuable  works  connected  with  his  country  and  with  the  order 
in  which  he  was  affiliated.  His  Hibemia  Dominicana  is  in- 
deed a  standard  work  showing  great  research  and  accurate 
chronology.  He  was  in  habits  of  fiiendly  intercourse  with 
Pope  Benedict  the  XIII. ;  was  promoted  to  the  above  See  by 
Cleinent  the  XIII.,  and  assisted  at  the  coronation  of  ((janga- 
nelli)  Clement  the  XIV.,  by  whom  he  was  appointed  to 
manage  a  negotiation  at  the  Court  of  Lisbon  between  His 
Holiness  and  the  King  of  Portugal,  touching  some  difference 
in  regard  to  the  Jesuits  t  Dr.  Burke  succeeded  in  the  object 
of  his  mission,  and  returning  to  Lneland,  he  died  at  Kilkenny 
in  1776.  In  the  Hibemia  Dominicana^  as  before  noted,  he 
speaks  of  many  Burkes  as  existing  in  his  time  in  the  neigh- 
bouring County  of  Tipperary,  and  amongst  these,  within  foi6r 
miles  of  the  Bishop's  reradence,  was  his  friend  John  Burke  of 
Idsnalea,  whose  gpreat^gnmdson,  William  Burke  Ryan,  MJ)., 
of  Bayswater,  London,  was  above  alluded  to  as  having  com- 
piled from  his  researches,  the  beforementioned  valuable  but 
unprinted  Table  of  Royal  Descents  from  the  Lady  Elizabeth 
de  Burgo.  Dr.  Burke  Byan  is  frtrther  connected  with  this 
illustrious  surname  by  his  great^grandmother,  Johanna, 
daughter  of  Walter  Bourke  of  Clomanty,  and  represents, 
through  his  mother,  a  bmnch  of  the  fiunily  in  which  the  dis^ 
tinotive  christian  name  of  Bickaid  has  been  transmitted  to  the 
present  period;  his  mother's  imcle  having  been  tiie  B«v. 
Bickard  Burke,  so  long  the  venexated  pastor  of  Upperwood, 
Queen's  County ;  while  his  brother,  a  Bickard,  died  in  infancy, 
and  her  first  cousin,  son  of  William  Burke  of  Callan,  was  also 
named  Bickard. 


140  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ABMY   LIST. 

Another  branch  of  this  noble  &mily,  springing  from  the 
Burkes  of  Meelick  is  traced  in  the  Landed  Gentry  to  its  pre- 
sent talented  representatives,  1,  Peter  Burke,  an  eminent 
member  of  the  EngUsh  Bar,  author  of  the  Life  of  Edmund 
Burke,  <&c.,  and  2,  Sir  John  Bernard  Burke,  Ulster  King 
of  Arms,  distinguished  not  less  by  his  official  ability  and 
courtesy,  than  by  his  many  able  compilations  of  Genealogies  of 
Peers,  Baronets,  and  Commoners ;  his  work  of  General  Ar* 
mari/y  his  beautifully  iUustrated  volumes  of  Family  SeatSj  his 
striking  revelations  of  Romances  of  History ^  <&c.,  &c. 


LIEUTENANT  COLONEL  EDWARD  MADDEN. 

Th£  Sept  of  the  O'Maddens  were  chiefs  of  what  is  now 
styled  the  Barony  of  Longford  in  the  County  of  Gralway, 
with  a  portion  of  the  parish  of  Lusmagh  in  the  King's 
County,  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  Shannon;  this  whole 
territory  being  in  the  Chronicles  of  the  country  called 
'  Silanchia.'  The  Annals  of  Ulster  record  the  death  of 
Matodhan,  Lord  of  Silanchia,  in  the  year  1008,  who  seems 
to  have  given  their  distinctive  name  to  his  descendants.  Li 
1059  Melaghlin  O'Madden  was  the  leader  of  a  military 
expedition  recorded  by  the  Four  Masters.  The  same 
Chronicle  mentions  the  death  of  Matodhan  O'Madden,  chief 
of  Silanchia,  in  1096 ;  and  subsequently  ^ves  various  other 
annals  of  this  family. 

So  early  as  in  1308  Aulaffe  '  0*Madathan'  appears  on  Lish 
record,  a  landed  proprietor.  In  ten  years  after,  at  the  instance 
of  Bichard  de  Burgo,  Earl  of  Ulster,  the  King  granted  the 
liberty  of  using  English  law  to  Eugene  (Owen)  O'Madedan, 


EARL  OP  CLANRICARDE'g  INFANTRT.  141 

to  Alan  and  Malachy  liis  brothers,  and  to  John  O'Madedan 
his  nephew,  they  being  *  Irish  of  the  said  Earl.'  In  1371 
Murrogh,  son  of  Owen  O'Madden,  was  slain  at  the  rere  of  a 
foraging  party  in  Ormond  by  the  cast  of  a  javelin.  In  1434 
by  reason  that  Thomas  Oge  '  O'Madyane'  and  his  ancestors 
from  the  conquest  of  Ireland  were  governed  by  the  English 
laws  and  dwelt  in  the  City  and  County  of  Waterford,  amongst 
the  King's  lieges,  therefore  the  King  confirmed  that  freedom 
to  them  and  their  heirs  thenceforth.  In  1479  the  monastery 
of  Meelick,  in  the  County  of  Gralway,  was  founded  by  the 
O'Madden  on  the  banks  of  the  Shannon  for  Franciscan  Friars ; 
and  this  was  appointed  to  be  the  &mily  burial  place. 

In  1540  the  Lord  Deputy  was  instructed  to  confirm 
treaties  between  the  Eang  and  Melaghlin  O'Madden  and  Hugh 
O'Madden,  Chiefe  of  their  country.*  In  1567,  on  the  submis- 
sion of  Donald  O'Madden,  who  prayed  ^^  to  be  recognised  in 
the  Captaincy  of  his  Sept,  (with  the  county  of  Longford  and 
'  Silankey'  commonly  called  O'Madden's  country,  whereof 
Hugh  Mac  Melaghlin  ballagh  O'Madden,  deceased,  was  the 
late  Captain)  his  petition  was  granted,  on  the  condition  of  said 
Donald  paying  to  the  Lord  Deputy  at  MuUingar,  for  a  fine, 
eighty  &t  heifer8.'t  When,  in  eighteen  years  after,  Sir  John 
Perrot  assembled  the  Condliation  Parliament  in  Dublin, 
"thither  went  O'Madden,  Lord  of  Siol-Amcha,  namely 
Donald,  the  son  of  John,  son  of  Breasal,"  i,e.  the  same  Donald 
of  1567.  The  O'Maddens  were,  however,  soon  after  impli* 
cated  in  such  resistance  to  the  government,  as  led  to  deaths  and 
confiscations  of  many  of  the  name ;  and  in  1606  John  King 
of  Dublin,  had  a  grant  of  the  estates  of  various  O'Maddens 

♦  State  Papers^  temp.  Henry  VIII.,  pt  IIL  contiiiaed,  p.  171. 

t  BoU  0  Elk.  in  Chancery, 


142  KINO  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

in  the  County  of  Galway  and  the  King's  County,  *  slain 
in  rebellion;'  as  had  also  Sir  John  Davis,  the  Attorney- 
General  of  the  day,  of  others  described  as  the  estate  of  Bresail 
O'Madden  of  the  County  of  Clare,  ^  slain  in  rebellion.'  In 
that  year,  however,  Andrew  O'Madden  had  livery  of  certain 
estates  in  the  old  Barony  of  Longford,  as  son  of  said  Donald. 
In  1612  Donald  O'Madden,  then  the  Captun,  settled  on  trus- 
tees his  Manor  and  Castle  of  Longfort,  and  all  his  other 
estates  in  that  part  of  the  County  of  Oalway,  to  hold  to  the 
use  of  Ambrose  O'Madden  his  son  and  heir  in  tail  male ;  with 
remainder  to  his  other  sons  Malachy  and  Donell,  and  their 
respective  heirs  male ;  remainder  to  Brssil  O'Madden,  son 
of  Hugh,  one  of  the  sons  of  Donell,  in  tail  male;  remainder  to 
the  heirs  of  Ambrose  O'Madden  in  fee.*  A  Manuscript  Book 
of  Obits  in  Trinity  CoU^e,  Dublin  (F,  IV.,  18),  contains 
links  of  the  pedigree  of  the  O'Maddens  of  Baggotrath,  near 
Dublin,  through  six  generations  of  the  16th  and  17th  centuries, 
also  some  links  of  those  of  Donore,  County  of  Dublin ;  and 
the  graveyard  of  the  old  firiary  of  Meelick,  in  their  andent 
barony,  yet  exhibits  many  monuments  of  their  ancestry 
during  those  centuries ;  while  Dr.  O'Donovan,  in  his  Tribes 
of  Hy-MavM  (p.  129,  &c.),  affords  very  full  particulars  of  the 
O'Madden  lineage. 

In  1662  John  Eyre,  a  member  of  the  Irish  Parliament, 
complained  to  the  House  against  Fergus  Madden,  who,  by  his 
servants,'  Laughlin  reajgh  Madden,  and  Rory  Madden,  with 
others,  came  to  the  bam  and  haggard  on  the  lands  of  Bally- 
hugh,  where  tiie  petitioner's  servants  were  threshing  his  com, 
and  turned  them  out  and  took  possession  ;  and  he  also  oom- 
phdned  against  others  who  had  seized  his  cattle  on  the  lands 

*  PotoA  RoR  Janm  L 


■M^akT' 


EABIi  OF  GLANBICABDE'S  mTAJSTTRT.  143 

of  Ejllalinagh  and  Ejlneshane,  tn  iJie  Barony  ofLangford^  and 
still  detained  same  ;  the  Sheriff  of  Galway  was  thereupon 
ordered  to  quiet  Eyre's  possession,  end  the  offenders  were 
summoned  to  attend  the  House.  In  1677,  however,  this 
Fergns  Madden  had  a  confirmatory  grant  of  1783  acres  in  the 
aforesaid  Barony  of  Longford,  ^  the  andent  inheritance  of  his 
fiunily;'  as  had  John  Madden,  great-grandson  of  Daniel 
O'Madden,  of  448  acres  in  the  same  district;  while  Dr. 
iUchard  Maddea  passed  patent  for  about  200  in  Clare  and 
Mayo. 

Beside  the  above  Lieutenant^Colonely  Michael  Madden  was 
an  Ensign  in  this  Br^imant,  John. Madden  a  Lieutenant  in 
the  Earl  of  Tyrone's;  another  an  Ensign  in  Colonel  Owen 
Macartie's;  John  an  Ensign  in  Lord  Bophin's;  in  Colonel 
Ueward  Oxburgh's,  Hugh  Madden  was  a  Captain,  and  John 
a  Lieutenant ;  and  in  the  King's  Own  In£Emtry  Begiment, 

Madden  was  a  Lieutenant,     This  Lieutenant-Colonel 

Edward  was  taken  prisoner  at  the  battle  of  Aughrim ;  but, 
having  afterwards  obtained  his  liberty,  he  repaired  to  France, 
where  he  was  commissioned  as  Major  in  the  Brigade  of  Fitz- 
James,  the  Grand  Prior,  Five  of  this  name  were  attainted 
in  1691. 


\ 


CAPTAIN  CHARLES  DALY. 

This  &mily  claims  descent  from  Nial  of  the  Nine  Hostages, 
one  of  the  most  illustrious  of  Lrish  Kin^v  the  Sept  extended 
itself  at  a  very  remote  period  over  Munster  and  Connaught, 
as  well  as  in  the  Barony  of  Clonlonan,  County  of  WestmeawK 
and,  through  the  long  li^se  of  yearsTnave  they  been  eminently 
distinguished  as  poets  and  annalists,  and  are  so  commemorated 


144  KINO  James's  ibish  armt  list. 

by  the  Four  Masters.  Hardiman,  in  his  Irish  MinBtreUy^ 
observes  that  thirty  individuals,  Dalys,  were  distinguished  at 
writers,  from  1139  to  1680,  adding  that,  in  his  own  manuscript 
collections,  he  possessed  poems  by  sixteen  bards  of  the  name. 

In  1185  'MaoUsa  O'Dalaigh,  Chief  Sage  of  Erin  and  of 
Albain,  a  noble  man  distinguished  for  learning,  poetry,  and 
hospitality,  died  at  Clonard  while  on  a  pilgrimage  there.**  In 
1337  died  Lewis  O'Daly,  Bishop  of  Clonmacnoise,  while 
that  interesting  locality  was  yet  a  Bishop's  See.     About  the 

same  time O'Daly  of  Munster  had  a  grant  of  Moynter- 

barry,  on  a  customary  tenure  at  that  time,  of  being  Rythmour 
or  Chronicler  of  the  Chief  Lord  and  his  achievements.t  In 
1375  Donald  O'Daly  was  appointed  one  of  the  collectors  of 
a  state  subsidy  over  the  County  of  Cork.  In  1410  John 
O'Daly  had  liberty  from  the  Crown  to  make  a  pilgrimage  to 
Bome,  the  penalties  against  absenteeism  making  such  a 
sanction  necessary;  while  the  prevalent  sympathy  for  the 
bardic  profession  is  demonstrated  in  the  fiu^t,  that,  amongst 
the  charges  preferred  against  the  celebrated  John  Talbot, 
Lord  Fumival,  about  the  last  date,  was  one,  that  he 
plundered  the  lands  of  the  poets,  Dermod  0*Daly  of 
Corcumroe,  and  of  Maurice  O'Daly.  In  1436  Nicholas 
O'Daly  was  by  the  Pope's  Bull  appointed  Bishop  of  Achonry. 

It  is  alleged  that  in  the  middle  of  the  succeeding  century, 
in  consequence  of  a  wish  expressed  by  the  King  of  Denmark 
to  Queen  Elizabeth,  to  have  Irish  manuscripts  then  in  his  pos- 
session translated,  one  Donald  Daly  was  selected  for  the  work  * 
but  that  the  project  was  abandoned,  being  opposed  in  Council 
'  lest  it  might  be  prejudicial  to  the  English  interest.'  In  1582 
Robert  Daly  died  Bishop  of  Kildare.     In  1606  John  King, 

*  AiwdU  Four  Ma$Urt,  f  Pacata  Hibemia^  p.  529. 


EABL  OF  CLANBICABDE'S  INFANTBY.  145 

of  Dublin,  had  a  grant  of  parcel  of  the  estate  of  Morrogh 
O'Daly  of  Ballinakill,  in  the  King's  County,  *•  slain  in  rebel- 
lion.' By  a  remarkable  deed  of  1612,  Donough,  son  of  Laugh* 
lin  roe  O'Daly  of  Finvara,  in  the  County  of  Clare,  '^  in  con- 
sideration of  siz  pounds  of  pure  crowned  stamped  money  of 
England,  (as  pure,  as  refined  and  as  valuable  as  that  coin  now 
is  in  England,  and  as  it  was  when  first  it  was  made  current, 
consisting  of  four  ounces  to  every  pound,)"  then  stated  to  have 
been  received  by  said  Donough  from  Anthony,  son  of  James, 
son  of  Ambrose  Lynch  of  Gralway,  merchant,  conveyed  to  him 
certain  premises  in  Finvara,  with  royalties  'over  and  under 
ground,'  as  his  proportion  of  the  estate  of  Finvara  held  by  the 
Daly  fiitmily  fi:om  the  Earl  of  Thomond.*  la  1616  Humphrey 
Beynolds,  of  the  County  Leitrim,  had  a  grant  of  the  ward- 
ship of  Annabella,  Anne,  and  Mary  O'Daly,  daughters  and 
heiresses  of  Teigue  roe  O'Daly,  of  the  County  of  Ghdway. 
In  1619  died  Bryan  O'Daly,  seised  of  the  Castle  of  Killileagh  /^J'^(^^ 
and  other  premises  in  Westmeath,  leaving  Thomas  his  son 
and  heir,  then  aged  fourteen  years.  Early  in  the  Civil  war  of 
1641,  the  Marquis  of  Clanricarde  committed  the  custody  and  ^ 
safe-keeping  of  the  Castle  of  Clare-Gralway  to  Jiieutenant 

Dermot  O'Daly  '  who  did  very  good  service  there.'    He  was       ^ 

the  grandson  of  Dermot  O'Daly,  who  in  1^78  obtained  a  grant   /j    )  ^ 
of  the  Manor  of  Lerha  with  all  its  appurtenances.     The        ^    >  ^  .. 
Attainders  of  1641  comprise  the  names  of  Loughlin  Daly  of 
Little  Clonshaugh,  County  of  Dublin ;  Donogh  Hugh  buy 
Daly  of  Neeston,  County  of  Kildare ;  and  Eneas  O'Daly  of 
Ballyrowne,  County  of  Cork. 

In  1662  died  Daniel  O'Daly,  a  native  of  Kerry,  who  had 
founded  the  Dominican  convent  at  Lisbon;    he  afterwards 

*  Hardunan^a  Andent  De^ds^  pp.  91-2. 
VOL.  II.     ,    ^ -.       ^  (-       y      ^V  .        ^y.irJCihL^**^^^^^^^'' 


n  '- 


146  KIN0  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

became  an  especial  &Yoarite  and  confidential  ambassador  of 
the  Duke  of  Braganza,  when  that  nobleman  succeeded  to  the 
throne  of  Portugal,  and  died  Bishop  Elect  of  Coimbra.  O'Dalj 
wrote  a  work  giving  full  historical  particulars  of  the  family  of 
Desmond,  long  rare,  but  now  reprinted  in  translation.  He 
was  himself  buried  in  the  convent  he  had  so  establbhed.  In 
1665  Colonel  Gary  Dillon,  having  complained  of  b^g  dis- 
turbed in  his  rights  and  possessions  of  KilHmor  and  Carrow- 
iBagh  in  GKdwaj,  by  Donogh  O'Daly,  Donogh  oge  0*Daly, 
and  by  Hugh  and  Dermot  O'Daly ,  the  Sheriff  of  that  County 
was  ordered  by  the  House  of  Commons  to  remove  the  causes  of 
injury  so  complained  of. In  1677  Charles  Daly  had  a  con- 
firmatory grant  of  763  acres  in  Mayo,  as  had  Dermot  Daly 
in  the  same  year  of  341  in  Gtalway,  James  Daly  of  801  in  the 
latter  County,  and  John  Daly  of  153  in  same  in  1678. 

In  this  Regiment,  besides  Captain  Charles,  Paul,  Hugh, 
and  Thady  Daly  were  Lieutenants,  and  the  name  was  likewise 
commisuoned  in  the  In&ntry  Regiments  of  Henry  Dillouy 
Edmund  O'Bdilly,  Lords  Mountcashel,  Clancarty,  and  Gralway^ 
Major-Greneral  Boisseleau,  Colonel  Heward  Oxburgh,  Colonel 
Walter  Bourke,  and  in  Simon  Luttrell's  and  Clifford*s  Diar 
goons. 

The  Charles  here  Captain  was  of  the  Dunsandle  fiunily,  and 
in  King  James's  Parliament  of  1689  was  one  of  the  Represen- 
tatives for  the  Borough  of  Athenry ;  as  was  Richard  Daly  of 
Ejlcorky  for  that  of  Newborough,  County  of  Wexford. 
Charles  was  brother  of  the  Right  Honorable  Denis  Daly,  who 
was  appointed  one  of  the  Justices  of  Common  Pleas  in  Ireland 
at  the  commencement  of  the  reign  of  James  the  Second. 
Colonel  O^Kelly,  in  the  Eacidium  MacarioBy  while  he  admits 
his  *  great  knowledge  of  the  law,*  says  he  was  one  of  Tyrcon- 
nel's  confidants,  and  imprisoned  in  Gralway  by  the  young  Duke 


<^  Berwi<3c,  as  on  smfncion  of  keiepiiig  prirate  ccnri'espo&d^nce 
nrkk  the  cdtHmbn  enemy ;  bttt,  add6  O^Kelly,  ^'  his  deliverer 
yraB  iieaf  ae  haad,  for,  witbhi  a  few  days  lifter  hb  oottfiMaitet, 
he  had  the  good  fortune  to  hear  of  TyrconneFs  laaji^^ig  at 
Xiimerick ;  and  no  sooner  was  he  arriyed  there,  than  he  made 
use  of  his  prenTgadve  to  eidarge  the  Judge,  and  restore  him, 
without  further  trial,  to  his  former  station  and  dignity."*  He 
was  included  in  the  Attainders  of  1691,  but  in  l%98  obtained 
a  pardon  from  the  Crown  as  in  pursuance  of  the  Capitulation 
of  Qalway,  and  the  Bpedal  promise  of  tiMS  J!arl  of  Athlone. 
The  private  cotrespondenee  above  alluded  to,  the  WilUaniites 
admit,  existed  between  their  pafl^  and  the  Judge.  He  wa6 
tke^reot  fineal  adoeetor  of  thi$  Dtttunndle  family. 

*ke  Dalys  Attainted  in  1691  w^re  Peter  and  Terence  of  . .  y  / 
ildgh.  County  of  Westmeath^^homaa  Daly  was  then  the  Kc  ' 'J 
head  of  the  Olile^  line,  but  Ivw  a  nnnor) ;  Eugene  of  Cork,  r  ir 
merchant;  John,  also  of  Cork;  Johnof  Cloghrevanny^  County 
of  Galway ;  Edward  of  Kilmeny,  do. ;  with  the  above  Judge 
Denis  and  Captain  Charles.  At  the  sale  of  1703  by  the  Com- 
missioners of  the  Forfeited  Estates,  Colonel  John  Eyre  of 
Eyrecourt  pnrehlksed  the  lands  of  Ballyhouse  and  Ejllevany, 
in  the  Barony  of  Longford  and  County  of  Gralway,  the  estate 
of  Teigtie  or  Hn^  Daly,  attunted.  This  Hu^h  was  the 
fiither  of  Teigne,  which  latter  had  died  in  1691,  lesving  four 
MjA,  the  three  elder  of  whom  Were  in  King  Jaitos's  army; 
and  after  the  surrender  of  Lfanerick  went  into  France.  Loughs 
lin  Daly,  the  fourth  son,  sabeequ«itly  in  1711  sought  ie 
recotei^  these  estates  from  the  Eyres  by  proceedings  in 
Chancery,  aDe^ng  that  the  conveyance  from  the  Trustees 
was  for  his  benefit;  but  his  elaim  was  defeated. 

*  &Calh§kin^$  ExeUL  Mae^  pp.  lOdi  ilO::!!. 


<f » 


148  KINO  JAMEB'S  ISISH  ABMT  LI8T. 

The  Mayors  of  Ghilwaj  from  1761  to  some  few  years  cdnoe 
were  in  almost  unbroken  snocession  Dalys,  while  the  Parlia- 
mentary representation  of  the  town  was  likewise  long  held  by 
the  fiunily. 


CAPTAIN  JAMES  TALBOT. 

This  individual  was  the  proprietor  of  Templeogue  in  the 
County  of  Dublin,  and  represented  the  borough  of  Athenry 
in  King  Jameses  Parliament.  At  the  battle  of  Aughiim  he 
had  the  command  of  a  Regiment,  and  was  there  killed.*  He 
forfmted  largely  in  the  County  of  Galway,  and  in  the  County 
and  Ci^jT  of  Dublin.  His  estates  in  the  latter  county  were 
sold  by  the  Commissioners  of  the  Forfeitures  to  Sir  Compton 
Domvile. 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  STEPHENSON. 

This  officer  is  described  in  the  Inquisition  on  his  outlawry  as 
of  Ballyvaughan,  County  of  Limerick ;  but  his  confiscations 
were  of  estates  in  that  of  Clare.  John  Stephenson  was  an 
attesting  witness  to  the  articles  of  Galway.  In  the  reign  of 
James  the  First,  "William  and  Richard  *  Stevenson,'  Scotch- 
m^  had  patents  of  naturalization,  and  the  name  was  yet 
earlier  introduced  to  Munster  in  the  time  of  Elizabeth.  In 
1600,  the  custody  of  the  castle  of  Corkroge  on  the  Shannon 

*  StanfM  Inypartkd  Hutarp^  pt  XL,  p.  18& 


EABL  OF  CLANBICABDE'S  INFANTBT.  149 

was  entrusted  to  Oliver  Stephenson*  wlio  became  a  Colonel 
in  the  Austrian  service,  but  in  1648  petitioned  Ferdinand  the 
Third  to  permit  him  to  resign  his  commission  and  fight  against 
the  Puritan  rebels  and  invaders  of  Ireland-f  His  prayer  was 
granted,  and  he  fell  at  the  battle  of  Liscarrol.  He  was  mar- 
ried to  a  sbter  of  Sir  Valentine  Brown,  and  she,  after  his 

decease,  became  the  wife  of  O'SuUivan  More. Captain 

James  Stephenson  was  one  of  the  *  1649 '  ofScers,  who  obtained 
an  adjudication  for  his  services,  while  on  this  Army  List  a 
second  Oliver  Stephenson  was  Captain  in  Colonel  Roger 
Mc  EUicott's  Infantiy,  where  Nicholas  Stephenson  was  his 
Lieutenant ;  and  another  Stephenson  was  a  Captain  in  the 
Lifimtiy  Regiment  of  Sir  John  Fitz  Gerald. 


CAPTAINS  LORD  ATHENRY  AND  JOHN  AND 

WILLIAM  BERMINGHAM. 

This  historic  name  has  been  early  projected  on  the  Irish 
chronicles.  In  1248  the  Royal  Manor  of  Esker,  in  the  County 
of  Dublin,  with  30  librates  of  land  was  granted  to  Peter  de 
Bermingham,  to  hold  until  40  librates  of  land  should  be  avail- 
able for  him  in  some  waste  dbtrict.  In  1301  Richard  de  Ber- 
mingham, Sheriff  of  the  *  County  of  Connaught,*  was  em- 
powered to  release  felons  from  prisons  therein,  upon  receiving  a 
fine  and  adequate  bail.  In  the  same  year  the  King  granted  the 
manor  of  Outrath  (Oughterard)  County  Kildare,  to  Robert  de 
Bermingham,  and  Simon  his  son  in  tail  male,  as  having  been 
theretofore  acquired  by  Peter,  son  of  Meiler  de  Bermingham. 

^  Piuata  Hibenm^  p.  128.        f  CfCown^M  HigL  Addrea^  pt  H,  p.  468. 


150  K£Bfa  fAMMS'B  IBISH  ABUT  I.I8T. 

In  1302  Hexuy  de  Berminghaia,  also  aftenmdi  Sheriff  of 
Connaught,*  ivaa  one  of  the  '  Magnates  *  of  Ireland,  who 
attended  the  Earl  of  Ulater  on  the  Boyal  summons  to  the 
Scottish  war.  In  1312  Dr.  William  Benninghaifi  died  Arch- 
bishop (dl  Toam,  soon  after  which  Sir  John  Bermingham  was 
created  Baron  pf  Athepry  and  Earl  of  Louth,  by  reason  of  his 
g^^lant  and  successful  resistance  to  Bruce*s  inyaaon.  He  sat 
in  fhe  Paidi^iEnent  of  Dublin  in  1323,  in  which  year  William, 
son  of  Geoffbey  de  '  ^rmingham,'  was  Constable  of  die  Castle 
of  Boscommon.  In  1327  the  Commonalty  of  the  County  of 
Tipper^ry  assessed  Aen^lves  in  an  aid  to  be  iq^lied  to  the 
use  of  fhis  Earl;  but  in  the  following  year,  as  the  Four 
Masters  relate,  ''this  n^ost  yaliant,  powerful,  and  hospitable 
Baron  of  the  English  of  Ireland,  was  treacherously  shun  by 
his  own  people,  and  many  of  the  English  and  Irish  were  slain 
along  with  him ;  among  whom  was  '  blind  O'Carroll,'  who  was 
the  chief  minstrel  of  Ireland  and  Scotland  at  the  time."  This 
nobleman  dying  without  male  issue,  the  Earldom  became 
extinct. 

In  1333  King  Edward  granted  to  Edmund,  son  of  Bichard 
de  Burgo,  Earl  of  Ulster,  two-thirds  of  the  lands  and  lordships 
of  this  murdered  Earl,  to  hold  during  the  minority  of  his  heir. 
In  1345  Thomas  de  Bermingham  of  Anery  (Athenry)  was 
appdnted  Chief  Serjeant  of  Connaught;  and  in  the  following 
ye^  the  King  committed  to  Walter  de  Bermingham,  the  office 
of  Justidary  of  Xs^eland,  with  the  custody  of  the  land  of 
Ireland,  its  castles,  and  appurtenances  during  pleasure,  with  a 
yearly  salary  of  £500  therefor.  He  had  the  power  also  of 
nemoving  such  sheriflb,  constables,  bailiiSb,  and  other  ministera 
of  the  King,  as  he  might  deem  unfit,  and  of  r^laciifg  them 

*  Morrises  Hib^rmcOf  pt  H,  p.  35, 


i^i^m^!«"sv 


EABL  OF  QLA^fSlQAWm'B  ISTAJSTUY.  151 

iiith  others.  At  this  time  William,  son  of  Andrew  de  Ber- 
Tningham,  was  constable  of  the  Castle  of  Athlone. 

It  is  recorded  that,  on  the  d^h  of  the  above  Lord  Walter 
in  1354,  indebted  to  the  King,  his  estates,  with  bis  armour, 
were  taken  by  the  Royal  Escheator;  but  his  Majesty  at  once 
rjBstored  the  armour  '  pieoe  by  piece,'  as  in  a  schedule,  to  Sir 
fiohert  de  Preston,  who  was  guairdian  of  Lprd  Walter's  in&nt 
son,  in  trust  to  deUver  same  to  him  on  his  arriving  at  age.* 
In  the  following  year  Bicbard,  son  of  Henry  de  Burgo,  had  a 
grant  of  the  wardship  of  the  estates  and  heir  of  William  de 
Bermingham,  then  late  Locd  of  Dunmore,  deceased*  In  1377 
Walter  de  Berpiin^bam  of  Athauy  was  fine^  100«.  for  not 
attending  Parliament;  he  was  agaip  summoned  to  a  Ps^^lia- 
ment  in  Dublin  in  1881,  and  a  third  time  in  1382.  Thi^ 
Walter,  Lord  of  Athenry,  having  preferred  a  complaint 
against  certain  Irish  of  the  lower  parts  of  Connaught,  who  had 
come  up  to  fish  without  right  in  the  waters  of  Galway,  the 
King  directed  that  the  Sheriff  of  that  town  and  the  Proyost 
BaiUffs  and  Commons,  should  prevent  their  t^Jdng  sabnpn  ii^ 
same.  Henry  the  Fourth,  pn  his  accecision,  constituted  this 
Walter  Sheriff  of  Connaught.  In  1402  Jphn  Bermingham 
was  appointed  a  Justice  of  the  King's  Benph  in  Ireland ;  and, 
in  1451  Sedmond,  spn  of  William  Bermipgham,  died  on  his 
journey  firom  Borne,  after  having  been  appointed  Archbishop 
Qf  Tuam. 

In  1464  Philip  Bennipgham  was  constituted  Chief  Justice 
of  the  Common  Pleas,  and  he,  in  1488,  did  l^omage  to  Sir 
Richard  Edgecombe.  In  1489  William  Bermingham  died 
Chief  Justice  of  the  King's  Bench,  to  which  high  judicial 
office  Patrick  Bermingham  was  appointed  in  1521.     At  the 

^  Lynch  on  FeuiM  D^priiHes^  p.  18. 


152  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ABHT  LIST. 

meetiiig  of  the  Irish  Parliament  in  1541,  considerable  surprise 
is  said  to  have  been  caused  by  the  unexpected  attendance  of 
Lord  Bermingham  of  Atheniy,  Lord  Barry,  Lord  Iloche,  and 
Lord  Fitz-Morris  ;*  '  which  Lords  had  not  been  here  for  many 
years  before/  These  noblemen,  together  with  the  Earls  of 
Ormond  and  Desmond,  and  the  Baron  of  Upper  Ossory, 
previous  to  opemng  Parliament,  as  Saint  Leger  the  Lord 
Deputy  in  his  zeal  announced  to  Henry  the  Eighth,  ^*  attended 
the  solemn  mass  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  the  most  part  of  them 
in  thdr  robes,  and  rode  on  in  procession,  in  such  sort  as  the 
Uke  thereof  has  not  been  dben  here  of  many  years. 't 

Lord  Athenry  sat  in  the  Parliament  of  1560;  and,  in  seven 
years  after,  having  avowed  himself  to  the  Queen  under  recog- 
nizance, a  fiuthful  subject  to  ihe  Crown,  and  offered  to 
surrender  his  estates  for  himself  and  his  Sept,  and  to  receive 
back  from  her  Majesty  the  same  according  to  her  pleasure, 
she,^  consideration  thereof,  directed  a  patent  to  pass  to  him 
accordingly  in  tiul  male  ;t  and  he  sat  as  a  Peer  in  the 
Parliament  of  1585.  A  survey  of  Connaught,  taken  in  1586, 
describes  this  nobleman's  estate,  in  Galway,  by  the  name  of 
'  Downmore,  having  a  Castle  thereon.'  In  1609  William 
Bermingham  had  livery,  as  son  and  hdr  of  Patrick  Berm- 
ingham of  Corballies,  deceased ;  and,  in  six  years  after  the 
wardship  of  Patrick,  the  son  and  heir  of  this  William,  was 
committed  to  the  Archbishop  of  Dublin  and  the  Lord 
Chancellor.  In  1617  Meyler  buoy  Bermingham,  of  Con* 
nogher,  had  a  grant  of  the  townlands,  &c.,  of  Dalgan  and 


*  Of  this  noble  Anglo-Norman  family  see  more  fullj  O'CaUaghanU 
Bngadet^  vol.  1,  p.  286,  &c. 

t  State  Papers^  temp,  Henry  VIII.^  pt.  IIL  contmned,  p.  804. 
X  Lynchj  on  Feudal  DignUies^  p.  216. 


EARL  OF  CLANRICABDB'S  INFANTBT.  153 

other  landfl  in  Gralwajy  with  markets  and  fiiirs  at  Connogher. 
In  the  following  year  died  James  Bermingham  of  BallyvoUan, 
County  Westmeath,  leaving  Edmund,  his  son  and  heir,  then 
aged  fifty  and  married.  This  Edmimd  had  a  grant  in  1621 
of  a  market  at  Miltown  in  said  ooimty,  and,  dying  in  1636, 
was  succeeded  by  John  his  son  and  heir,  then  aged  thirty-five, 
and  unmarried. 

The  attainders  of  1642  present  the  names  of  William 
Bermingham  of  Ballynamallough,  John  of  Baheen  and 
Muckland,  Piers  and  Gerald  of  Ballynakill,  Luke  of  Parsons- 
town,  Gerald  of  Dunfert,  clerk,  all  in  Kildare;  Peter  of 
Dromin  in  Wicklow,  clerk ;  Edward  of  Culmine,  and  James 
of  Bullogh,  in  Dublin ;  and  the  above  Patrick  Bermingham, 
junior,  of  Corballies,  County  Meath.  At  the  Supreme 
Council  of  Elilkenny,  Francis  Bermingham,  then  Lord 
Athenry,  sat  as  a  Temporal  Peer,  while  four  Berminghams 
were  of  tlv9  Commons.  This  Lord  was,  consequently,  in 
1652,  excepted,  by  Cromwell's  ordinance,  from  pardon  for 
life  and  estate.  In  1677  an  Edmund  Bermingham  had  a 
confirmatory  patent  for  170  acres  in  Roscommon,  as  had 
Bemigius  Bermingham  in  1681  for  5,262  in  Mayo. 

Besides  the  above  Captains,  the  name  appears  on  this  List 
commissioned  in  three  other  Begiments.  In  Eling  James's 
Parliament  of  1689  Lord  Athenry  sat  as  one  of  the  Peers, 
while  the  above  Captain  John  Bermingham,  who  was  Port- 
rieve  of  Castlebar  in  its  new  Charter,  sat  as  one  of  its 
Bepresentatives.  Near  the  close  of  this  bampaign,  on  the 
19th  of  August,  1691,  by  the  Articles  for  the  surrender  of 
the  island  and  garrison  of  Bophin,  '^Lord  Athenry  and 
Colonel  John  Kelly,  with  all  the  inhabitants  of  said  island, 
ware  permitted  to  possess  and  enjoy  their  estates  therein,  as 
they  held  them  under  the  Acts  of  Settlement  and  Expla- 


154  KINO  jamss'b  TBian  abmy  list. 

xj^on.''^  The  Attiondecs  of  1691  included  the  names  of  the 
above  Lofd  Atibtemy;  of  said  Oaptam,  described  as  John 
Benmngham  of  Castlebar,  County  of  Mayo;  George  of 
Corballls,  and  Maurice  of  Ballymullane,  in  Meath;  Walter 
and  John  of  Grarveene,  in  the  Queen*s  County;  Piers  of 
Ponadea,  Andrew  of  Carrisborough,  and  Garret  of  Carricky 
in  Kildare;  with  Gilbert  and  Walter  age  of  Tullyyaiighaii 
in  Galway;  while  a  Captain  Nicholas  BemniTigharo  was 
adjudged  within  the  benefit  of  the  Articles  of  limerid^. 

On  the  establishment  of  1710  the  nwie  of  Franqis  Bea?- 
mingham  is  noted  for  an  eimual  pension  of  £200. 


CAPTAIN  EDMUND  D'ARCY. 

Thb  figmily  of  DArcy,  writes  Burke.f  **  ranks  with  the 
most  emiijent  established  in  England  by  tihu9  Npnnan  con- 
quest, and  amongst  the  peerages  of  past  times.  There  are 
two  Baxonies  in  abej/ancej  one  forfeited  Barony,  and  three 
satinet  Baronios,  all  o£  which  had  been  cpufi^red  upon  the 
House  of  D'Arcy,  besides  the  extinct  Earldom  of  Holder- 
ness."  The  D' Ascys  of  Hyd^  Park  are  the  chief  and  eldest 
existing  line  of  this  ancient  race  in  Ireland,  and  to  Sis' 
Bernard  Burke's  memoir  of  that  House  the  genealogical 
inquirer  is  best  referred.  Of  this  &mily,  John  D'Arcy, 
Eni^t,  had  been  Chief  Justiciary  and  Grovemor  of  Ireland 
in  1817,  yApa  a  treasury  grant  of  £100  was  made  to  him 
towards  his  expenses  in  men  and  arms,  on  his  journey  into 
Connaught  and  Louth,  to  parley  inth  O'Connor  and  Mae 
Geoghegan;  and  into  O^ey  and  Leinster  for  a  aunilar 

*  Stones  hnpartial  Bufory^  pt.  IL,  p.  201.     t  XamM  QaOry^  p.  306. 


EASL  OF  CLANUGABDS'a  IXFANTBT.  155 

vith  the  O^Connora,  O'Dempoeys,  OTooles,  and 
O'Bjrnes.  In  1324  he  was  again  Vioeioj,  and  in  1326 
had  a  gmat  of  all  the  estates  of  Sichaid,  son  4>f  Thomas, 
late  £ad  of  Kildare,  deceased,  to  enjoy  same  dining  the 
minmty  of  his  heir,  iqppropriating  a  certain  portion  of  the 
rents  for  xqpfiiring  the  Castles  of  Kildaie,  Cromyth,  Esgrene, 
and  ether  buildings  and  houses.  In  1327  he  ivas  again 
Jiisti4v7,as  also  in  13il;  on  Ae  latter  occasion, the  appoint* 
Bxent  was  made  to  hin^  for  hfe.  He  had  large  gra^its  tP  him 
and  his  hdxa  male  of  manors  and  lands  in  the  Coontjr  of 
Westmeath,  with  Knight's  fees  and  adyowsons  of  ehnrches; 
and,  marrying  twice,  had  hy  his  first  wife  a  son,  who  was 
ancestor  of  the  D'Arcys,  Barons  D'Arcy  and  Moynell,  and 
of  the  Earis  of  Holdemess.  His  second  wife  was  Jane, 
daught^  of  Bichard  de  Bm^h,  Earl  of  Ulster,  and  widow 
of  Thomas  FitanJohn,  Earl  of  Eildare;  upon  which  marriage 
he  settled  in  Ireland,  and  became  the  founder  of  the  fiuuily 
of  Flatten,  from  which  the  D* Aicys  of  Meath  have  descended. 
When  Lambert  Simnel  shook  the  allegiance  of  Ireland,  and 
was  crowned  Song  at  Christ  Church  Cathedral  in  1487,  it  is 
related  tiiat  Sir  William  D' Arey  of  Flatten  borp  him  out  on 
his  shoulders,  after  the  ceremony,  to  the  deluded  multitude. 
Sir  William  was  however  pardoned  in  the  following  year,  on 
doipg  homage  to  Sir  Bichard  Edgecome.  This  pardon  was 
very  peculiarly  nfoxded  as  to  *  William  D'Arcy,  late  of 
Flatten;  otherwise  William  D'Arcy,  late  Sheriff  of  Meath, 
htt^  Beceiver-General  of  the  revenues  in  Meath,  Louth, 
Dublin,  Eildare,  and  Drogheda,  (then  the  extent  of  the  Fale) ; 
otherwise  William  D'Arcy,  Enight,  Deputy-Treasurer  for 
Gerald,  son  and  heir  of  the  Earl  of  Eildare,  Treasurer  of 
Ireland;  otherwise  William  D'Arcy  of  Flatten,  Enight, 
otherwise  William  D' Arpy  of  Bathwyr^,  ^juglft' 


156  KING  JAHES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Roger  D'Arcy  wba  an  earlier  Bojral  iavourite  in  the  time  of 
Edward  the  Third,  when  he  had  grants  of  sundry  Boyal 
Manors ;  and,  in  1346,  the  custody  of  the  Great  Seal  of  Ireland 
was  comnutted  to  him  in  the  absence  of  the  Chancellor; 
he  was  also  for  a  year  the  King's  Escheator.  In  1389  King 
Richard  committed  to  John  D'Arcy  the  custody  of  the  Castle 
of  Rathwyre,  with  that  of  the  lands  of  Rathwyre,  Lynne,  and 
Frewyn  in  Meath;  Henry  the  Fourth  yet  more  fitvoured 
this  John  D'Arcy  by  grants,  in  1403,  of  the  Manors  of 
Mansfieldtown  and  Stantoun  in  Louth,  forfeited  by  Bar- 
tholomew Verdon;  the  Manor  of  Philipstown  in  same 
County,  with  burgages  and  lands  in  Dundalk,  forfeited  by 
Christopher  White;  and  the  lands  of  Bahregan  and  Rath- 
hopkyn,  forfeited  by  James  White.  This  John  D'Arcy 
having  died  within  some  few  years  after  these  grants,  the 
Kiing  committed  to  John  Keppock  and  John  Bemwall  the 
custody  of  all  the  manors,  lands,  &c.,  of  which  he  had  died 
seised,  to  hold  during  the  minority  of  his  son  and  heir.  In 
1415  William  D' Arcy  had  livery  of  the  manors  of  Martry  and 
Flatten  in  Meath ;  in  ten  years  after  which  Henry  the  Sixth 
committed  to  the  custody  of  John  D' Arcy,  two-thirds  of  the 
manors  of  Belgard  and  Fore,  the  estates  of  Edward  late 
Earl  of  March,  to  hold  during  the  minority  of  Edward, 
Duke  of  York,  said  Earrs  heir;  and  in  1431  he  had  a 
grant  of  two-thirde  of  the  said  manor  of  Rathwyre,  to  hold 
on  the  same  tenure. 

In  the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  Edmund  D'Arcy  died 
seised  in  tail  male  of  Clonedaly  and  other  lands  in  Westmeath, 
leaving  Thomas  his  son  and  heir  of  full  age  and  married.  In 
1614  Nicholas  D'Arcy  had  a  grant  of  the  dissolved  monastery 
of  Killmakough,  with  sundry  its  possessions  in  lands,  tithes, 
&C.J  in  the  County  of  Galway ;  also  of  water-nulls  on  the  river 


j  BABL  OF  CLAKBICABDE'S  INFANTBT  157 

of  Gralway  and  certain  rights  in  the  salmon  fishery  there,  with 
parcels  of  the  estates  of  the  Abbeys  of  St.  Augustin,  St. 
Francis,  and  St.  Domipick,  in  Galway ;  and  of  the  Friaries 
of  Beagh,  Coulyemoge,  Killmurry,  and  Bossyillie,  in  said 
\  county,  certain  premises  in  Athlone,  the  Castles  of  Clondoan 

'  and  Kilkeedy,  with  a  rectory,  lands,  and  tithes  in  Clare.     In 

1636  died  Edward  D'Arcy,  seised  in  fee  of  a  castle  at 
Redmondstown,  ^th  sundry  lands  there  and  in  other  parts 
of  Westmeath,  lUchard  D'Arcy,  his  son  and  heir,  was  then 
aged  sixty  and  married.  In  three  years  after  died  John 
D'Arcy,  seised  in  fee  tidl  expectant,  of  the  manor,  castle, 
and  lands  of  Dunmore,  &c.,  in  Meath,  leaying  Thomas,  his 
son  and  heir,  then  twenty-eight  years  of  age  and  married. 

The  Attainders  of  1642  present  the  names  of  Nicholas 
D'Arcy  of  Flatten,  County  Meath  (who  had  attended  the 
great  meeting  at  the  hill  of  Crofty),  Frauds  D'Arcy  of  Bally- 
mount,  County  of  Kildare;  and  Christopher  of  Athlumney, 
Coimty  of  Meath.  Nicholas  of  Flatten  had,  however,  a 
decree  of  Innocence  in  1666,  and  was  further  restored  to  his 
estates  by  patent  of  1670.  Patrick  D'Arcy  of  the  Gralway  line 
was  one  of  the  Confederate  Catholics  who  sat  at  Kilkenny  in 
1646,  and  he  was  accordingly  excepted  from  pardon  for  life 
and  estates  in  Cromwell's  Act  of  1652.*  In  1667  Nicholas 
D'Arcy  had  a  confirmatory,  grant  of  555  acres  in  the  Queen's 
County,  as  had  John  D'Arcy,  in  ten  years  after,  of  1691  in 
Mayo  and  Gralway,  and  Feter  D'Arcy  of  81  in  Mayo.  In 
the  Establishment  of  1685,  Sir  William  D'Arcy  was  set 
down  for  a  pension  of  £400  per  annumj  while,  in  the  New 

*  Dr.  O^DonoYan,  in  hb  notes  on  the  '*  Tribe  of  Hy-Fiachra,**  in  the 
Thztuactums  of  the  Irish  Archceological  Society  maintains  that  the 
D'Arc^s  of  Cralwa/,  were  properi^r  of  Milesian  lineage,  O'Dorseys,  and 
should  not  be  confounded  with  the  D'Arcys  of  Meath. 


i5S  KfKG  ;rA]iBd'8  mi&H  ABirf  list. 

Cliarteir  of  1687  to  thd  BoroHgh  of  Grfllway,  nx  D'Ait^js 
W^re  appointed  Burgesses. 

Besides  the  above  lieatenasvt,  tlia:^  appear  on  this  Army 
List,  Nicholas  D^ Arcj^  a  Comet  in  Lord  Dongaa's  Dragoons 
(afterwards  wounded  at  Deny),  and  Thomas  lyAtoj,  m 
Quarter-l&laater  in  Sir  NeiU  0*Neill'd ;  while  in  Lewd  Gor^ 
tdanston's  Lifantry  --: — D'Arcy  trae  A  Captain ;  aswas  Jameb 
D'ArCj  in  Colonel  Dominick  Browne^s.  A  short  time  pre- 
vious to  the  batde  of  the  Bbjme,  EiUeBhandraj  which  was 
garrisoned  by  one  hundred  imd  sixty  Ir^  ntidei^  the  oommaM 
of  a  Captain  D'Arey,  was  obMged  to  surrender  to  Cokmd 
Wolsetey.*  Of  those  attainted  m  1691  were  Nicholas  D'Arcy 
described  as  of  Flatten  (who  had  been  nominate  an  Alder- 
man in  King  James's  Charter  to  Dtogheda),  George  D*Arcy, 
his  son,  and  Thomas  D'Arcy  of  Corbetstown  and  Port^rstewn, 
County  of '  Westmeath.  Various  claims  -w^^  preferred  at 
Chichester  House  in  1700,  as  afl^ting  the  confiscations  of 
Nicholas  tyAroj  in  Westmeath ;  as  by  Christopher  D'Arcy 
for  a  term  of  years  of  Balleighter,  in  Westmeafch,  allowed :  of 
Nich<^  D'Arcy,  as  soa  and  heir  of  Francis,  and  as  adminid^ 
trator  of  Ms  own  brother,  Dudley  D'Arcy,  for  a  portion  of 
£400,  alleged  to  be  charged  on  Lynn,  iik  the  same  county, — 
dismist :  of  George  D* Arcy  foi^  the  fee  of  certain  other  lands, 
also  dismist:  of  Thomas  D'Arcy  .late  husband  of  Katherine 
D'Arcy,  alias  Hussey,  for  the  amount  of  a  mortgage  and 
arrears  of  interest  due  to  her  off  certain  estates  of  said  Nicholas 
of  Flatten;  while  George,  Thomas,  I^lizabeth,  and  Bridget 
D'Arcy,  children  of  Christopher  and  Catii^riile  D'Arcy, 
claimed  by  their  proehein  ami,  two  thirds  of  the  profits  of  said 
Estates,  and  all  those  latter  demands  w^re  allowed. 


*  lUtOfdon  ficqmf,  p.  822. 


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> ,  A^  Nt^^Tnis  officer  was  of  a  mamy  tliat,  as  appears  from  thgj^atent     x 
f  .  N    ^"^  {  BoUg-efJattesrsettlecl  gfaot^tiiat>tiine  in  the  C^nnty  of  Gal-    [ 
t      ».^  i     *  ^  way,  and,  as  well  from  the  date  of  its  migcation  being  contem- 
I      *  Nl  ^^  ^  poraneous  with  the  planting  of  Ulster,  as  fix>m  the  adoption  of 
^  V  ^  ^yv  the  same  christian  names  in  its  succession,  appears  to  have 
^^  S  \^  ^  branjdi^frtm^  the  mustnotts-heuse^  of  Mac  Mahon,  tha  d^Basi  ^ 
^V  ^2  otuoS^Ml^  The  father  of  this  officer,  Bryan  Mahm  the    ^ 
z        ^^Ider,  of  Loughrea,  was  in  1665  possessed  of  considerable  ^  , 


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\  "l]^  ^  yl  J  property  in  that  neighbourhood,  the  leasehold  portion  of  whidi,     -  *'  *-^ 
\  .^\^  having  been  held  under  Lord  Bophin,  waa,  on  the  attainder  of       ,^;  ; 
^    ^    ^     that  nobleman,  the  subject  of  daim  before  the  Commissioner^' 
"^  s;,  at  Chichester  House,  on  the  part  of  his  widow,  Mnggiw    ' 

.-.  V     >v  Mahon,  alias  Power,  who  was  afterwards  interred  with  her         V   • 
"^  ^   nusband  in  the  fiuxuly  vault  at  the  old  Abbey  of  Loughrea.      ^  ^  ^ 
V^js^^    They  left  two  sons;  the  elder  James,  became  the  ancestor  of         ^ 
A'v^  the  IVfahonfl  of  Beech-hill,  County  of  Chdway ;  the  seoond,  this 
I    ^Bryan,  who  was  advanced  to  a  Captaincy  before  his  death, '        ^    -' 
^  V   (^^^^  occurred  in  1719),  became  a  conformist,  and  was  aia^ 
^  cestor  of  the  Baronets  of  Castlegar.     His  will  bears  date  8th    > 
\  w^  of  June  in  that  year,  and  directs  his  interment  ^  with  his    *^     \ 
'   .  ^    ancestors  in  the  abbey  of  Loughrea;'  while  he  thereby  devised    ^ 
''-^j;,-^  his  estates  to  his  son  and  heir  Boss  Mahon,  and  his  issue,  in 
/    ^  ^^  tail  male;  with  similar  remainders  to  his  second  son,  James,    \ 

^  \   and  his  third  son  Peter,  in  succession ;  and  on  fidlure  of  all 
^  ^   ^   such  issue,  remainder  to  Bryan  and  Thomas,  sons  of  the  above  '  ^ 

^  ^  James  Mahon  of  Beecb-hiU,  in  tail  male  successively.  / 

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KnrO  ^TAMBS'S  IBUH  ABICT  LIST. 


REGIMENTS   OP   INFANTRY. 


AUBXANDER,  EASL  OF  AITTBIM. 


Cap(am$. 

LimUmut»i$» 

Eiuiffiu. 

The  ColoneL 

Aidklbald  Ma>onneIL 

Randall  Ma>onneIL 

ICark  Talbot, 

Denia  Callagbaa. 

Makay 

Uent-OoL 

Junes  Wogan, 

Con.  O'Booike. 

Mi^or. 

Lord  InSeUIlen 

/Eneas  M^DonnelL 
t  John  O^Neale. 

j-FiandsO^NeOle. 

Hngh  O'Neia 

Bryan  O'Neale. 

Angostin  H^DonnelL 

Ednraiid  Beillj. 

BrfanMagiath. 

FnuLBeilly. 

Hanoe  0*001111611 

Biyan  O'NeUL 

John  O'Cahan. 

Ulick  Bonike. 

Terence  M'Sweeny. 

Eneas  M'DonnelL 

Daniel  M'DonnelL 

John  O'Neal. 

Toriogh  O'NeOL 

Biyan  M^Oennia. 

John  M'Donald. 

John  M'Manoa. 

ArUmr  ICagflL 

M<Manas. 

M'DonneO. 

Ter.  O'Neffl. 

Sexton. 

M'Mabon. 

«— Tangban. 

OfSetralaamUe, 

— -Vangfaan. 

Alexander  M(Donn«D,  Capi 

tem. 

EABL  OF  AKTEIM'S  INFANTBT.  161 


COLONEL  ALEXANDER  McDONNELL,  EARL 

OP  ANTRIM. 

In  1469  '  Con,  son  of  Hugh  buighe  0*Neill,  gave  the  English 
of  Lecale  (County  Down)  a  great  overthrow  at  Beinn-Uamhaf 
in  which  Murtogh  roe  0*Neill,  Lord  of  Claneboy,  was  taken 
prisoner,  and  Angus,  son  of  Alexander  Mac  Donnell,  Robert 
Savage,  Lord  of  Lecale,  and  many  of  the  English  and  Irish 
were  slain;  and  Patrick  White  assumed  the  Lordship  of 
Lecale,  by  the  aid  of  O'Neill.*  It  was  about  this  time  that 
the  McDonnels  or  McConnells,  Lords  of  the  Western  Isles  of 
Scotland,  established  a  branch  of  their  originally  Irish  family 
in  Antrim,  by  the  marriage  of  John  McConnell  with  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Phelim  O'Neill  of  Claneboy.  He  thereupon 
principally  resided  in  Ireland,  and  the  alliance  seems  to  have 
given  rise  to  a  claim  set  up  by  the  McConnells  to  Claneboy. 
John  Mc  Connell,  junior,  his  heir,  was  knighted  by  Eang 
James  the  Fourth  of  Scotland ;  but  afterwards,  about  1494, 
rebelled  against  him,  for  which  he  and  three  of  his  sons  were 
taken  and  executed  at  Edinburgh.  The  two  eldest,  Alexander 
and  Angus,  on  the  deaths  of  their  kindred,  fled  to  Ireland, 
where  Mac  Cahane  gave  his  daughter,  Catherine,  in  marriage 
to  Alexander.  James,  the  heir  of  that  marriage,  passed  ove9r 
to  Scotland,  leaving  his  brother  *  Sorieyboy '  to  hold  possession 
of  the  Glyns  in  Antrim.  He,  however,  having  been  t£t&t* 
wards,  about  1565,  hardly  pressed  by  the  O'Neill,  solicited 
and  obtained  his  brother's  assistance.  O'Neill  at  once  gELve 
them  battle  with  signal  success,  James  was  killed,  and  Sorley* 

*  Annals  of  the  Four  Magten. 
VOL.  U.  M 


162  KINO  JAKES'S  IRISH  ABHT  LIST. 

boy  taken  prisoner  ;*  they  had  a  brother,  Angas  the  jounger, 
also  killed  on  this  occasion.  Sorlejboy  afterwards  married 
Mary,  daughter  of  Con  boocagh  0*Neill,  by  whom  he  had  issue 
James,  who  was  knighted  by  James  the  Sixth  on  visiting 
Edinburgh.  Sorleyboy  remained  in  Ireland,  having  been 
established  on  his  estates  by  Queen  Elizabeth,  but  his  brothers 
returned  to  Scotland;  and  one  of  their  descendants,  CoU 
Eattach,  the  son  of  Archibald,  was  father  to  Alister  Mac  Coll, 
who,  as  hereafter  mentioned,  was  sent  by  the  first  Marquess  of 
Antrim  to  join  Montrose  at  Tippermuir.  Coll  Kittach  him- 
self, being  left  in  charge  of  the  Castle  of  Dunyveg  in  Isla,  was 
entrapped  into  a  surrender  by  Leslie  imd  was  haqded  over  to 
the  Campbells,  by  whom  he  was  executed.  He  was  hanged 
from  the  mast  of  his  own  galley,  placed  over  the  deft  of  a  rock, 
near  the  Castle  of  DuDstafihage.f 

An  old  fiunily  Manuscript  of  the  Mac  QuiUanes,  purporting 
to  give  a  catalogue  of  the  Orgillian  Princes,  descended  from 
CoUa  Uais,  mentions  Mngdon^e  as  the  38th  on  this  suocesdon, 
in  whose  time  it  says,  *'  in  1580  Coll  Mao  Donnell  came  to 
Ireland,  being  the  fifth  lineal  descendant  from  Donald,  Eang 
or  Lord  of  the  Hebrides  and  of  Cantyre.  His  clandestine 
marriage  with  a  daughter  of.  Mac  Quillan,  Lord  of  Bathmor* 
Mac-Quillan,  now  Dunluoe,  was  t^e  cause  of  a  war  between 
these  two  fiunilies;  which  was  not  terminated  till  1610,  when 
James  the  First  of  England  unjustly  deprived  Mac  Quillan  of 
his  lands,  and  divided  them  amongst  his  patentees,  which  lands 
are  now  some  of  the  best  improved  in  Lreland.  To  McDonnell, 
the  son-in-law  or  brother-in-law  of  Mao  Quillan,  he  gave  the 
four  great  Baronies  of  Dunluce,  Carie,  Ballyoastle,  and  Glen- 
arm,  with  the  island  of  Baghery ;  to  Sir  John  Chichester  he 

*  MSS,  qfihe  late  Donald  Gregory,     f  Gregorys  Etghlands^  irc,^  p.  SU. 


EAUL  OF  ANTKIM'8  IKTAKTBT.  163 

gave  the  Barony  of  Belfast  and  town  of  Carrickfergus ;  to  the 
Seymours  and  Conways  part  of  Massareene ;  to  the  Skeffing* 
tons  another  portion  of  Massareene ;  and  several  other  persons 
he  ennobled  at  that  time  or  soon  after,  some  of  whom  were  not 
the  most  loyal  subjects  to  his  son  Charles  the  First.''  Pre- 
vious to  this  period,  Hugh  O'Donnell,  chief  of  his  nation, 
married  a  daughter  of  James  McDonnell,  Lord  of  the  Isles, 
by  whom  he  had  the  celebrated  hero,  Bed  '  Hugh  O'Donnellj* 
in  whose  ensuing  wars  with  the  Queen,  the  McDonnels  afforded 
him  great  assistance.  James  Mao  Sorleyboy,  before  alluded 
to,  was  one  of  those  who  supported  O'Neill  at  the  battle  of  the 
Blackwater.  The  Four  Masters  contain  many  annals  of  this 
fisunily,  that  cannot  be  brought  forward  here. 

In  1613  King  James,  who  had,  in  the  first  and  second 
years  of  his  reign,  granted  large  possessions  in  Londonderry 
and  Antrim  to  Sir  Randal  Mac  Sorley  Mac  Donnell,  including 
the|Boute,  the  Glynnes,  the  Castle  of  Olderfleet,  and  the 
island  of  Baghlins  (the  latter  island  was  assured  to  the 
patentee  yet  more  explicitly  by  a  subsequent  patent)  directed 
his  mandatory  letter  for  an  Act  of  Parliament  to  secure  to  him 
all  his  said  lands,  <6c.,  in  Ulster,  to  hold  to  him  and  his  heirs 
male  by  his  wife  EUy  ny  Neale,  remainder  to  the  heirs  male 
of  his  body  and  to  those  of  Alexander  McDonnel,  his  cousin, 
and  of  Con  McDonnel  his  late  cousin  successively,  remainder 
to  the  right  heirs  of  Sir  Bandal  for  ever.  In  1615  the  same 
monarch  granted  to  said  Sir  Bandal  in  more  especial  terms  the 
Castle  of  Dunluce,  to  hold  in  tail  male,  remainder  to  his 
cousin  Alexander  McDonnell  in  tul  male,  remainder  to  his 
relation  Coll  McDonnell  in  tail  male,  with  ultimate  remainder 
to  his  (said  Bandal's)  own  right  heirs.  This  grant  was  how* 
ever  on  the  express  condition  that  the  King  and  his  heirs,  or 
the  Chief  Governor  of  Ireland  for  the  time  being,  in  time  of 


164  KINO  James's  ibish  abut  list. 

any  general  war  or  rebellion,  if  they  thought  it  fit  or  neces- 
sary, should  resume  and  retain  said  Castle  and  make  a  garrison 
thereof,  and,  on  peace  being  restored,  should  deliver  back  the 
possession  again  to  the  &mily.  In  1618  this  patentee,  who 
was  grand&ther  of  the  nobleman  at  present  imder  considera- 
tion, was  created  Viscount  Dunluce  in  the  Peerage  of  Ireland, 
and  in  two  years  after  advanced  to  the  Earldom  of  Antrim. 
On  the  Attainders  of  1642  appear  of  this  name  Bandal,  then 
Earl,  and  his  brother  the  above  Alexander,  (but  they  were,  by 
a  clause  in  the  Act  of  Settlement,  restored  to  their  estates, 
excepting  tithes),  while  there  were  also  then  attunted  Maurice 
Mac  Donnell  of  BathconsiUagh  in  Kildare,  Edmund  of  Knock- 
erisk,  David  of  Ballyshaneduff ;  Dudley,  Daniel,  and  James 
M*  Walter  Mao  Donnell  of  Toole&rroges  in  Wicklow,  Richard 
*  Donnell  *  of  Palmerstown  and  Clement '  Donnell  *  of  Swords 
in  Dublin  County,  with  Murtogh  MoDaniel  of  Bynd«  and 
Owen  and  Donough  of  Anaghally  in  Cork* 

In  1644  the  gallant  Montrose,  desiroua  to  raise  forces  in 
Ireland  to  uphold  the  Royal  cause  in  Scotland,  commissioned 
Earl  Randal,  as  an  Irishman  by  birth  and  a  Scot  by  descent^ 
to  effectuate  the  important  object;  and,  for  fiu^tating  these 
levies,  he  directed  the  Marquis  of  Ormonde,  then  Lord 
Lieutenant  of  Ireland,  to  procure  a  cessation  of  arms  there 
between  the  Catholics  and  the  Protestants,  both  parties  being 
then  considered  alike  fiivourable  to  the  enlistment.  Accord- 
ingly, when  Montrose  himself  entered  Scotland  with  but  two 
companies,  he  was  joined  by  1,200  Irish  recruits,  commanded 
by  Alexander  McDonnell,  whom  Earl  Randal  (then  advanced 
to  a  Marquisate)  sent  over  to  the  cause.  This  Alexander  or 
AHster  Mac  Coll,  son  of  Coll  IButtach  as  before  mentioned, 
was  in  the  ninth  degree  of  lineal  male  descent  ficom  John, 
Lord  of  the  Isles  and  his  wife  Margaret,  daughter  of  Robert 


EARL  OF  AKTBIM'S  IKFAKTBT.  165 

the  Second,  Eang  of  Scotland.  He  was  killed  about  the 
year  1647,  at  the  battle  of  KnockinnoBS,  near  Kanturk,  and 
yrss  interred  in  Clonmeen  Church-jard,  the  adjacent  burial 
place  of  the  O'Callaghans.  He  left  two  dons,  Coll  and 
Archibald;  the  latter  was  the  Lieutenant  in  this  Regiment, 
died  a  Captain  in  1720,  at  the  age  of  73,  and  was  buried  in 
the  secluded  mountain  Church-yard  of  Layde,  on  the  coast  of 
Antrim;  as  were  his  son  Coll,  who  died  in  1737;  and  Colics 
son,  Alexander,  who  died  in  1793,  s.p.  Coll,  the  eldest  son 
of  Alister  Mac  Coll,  had  a  son  Coll,  who  was  father  of 
Alexander,  who  had  three  sons — 1,  Coll,  whose  issue  all 
emigrated  to  America ;  2,  Michael,  who  was  father  of  Bandall, 
James,  and  Alexander;  James,  his  second  son,  was  an  indiyi- 
dual,  whose  national,  literary,  and  scientific  acquirements 
were  for  many  years  a  paramount  attraction  in  BeUast,  and 
he  was  father  of  the  Right  Honorable  Alexander  Mac  Donnell 
(resident  Commissioner  of  the  Board  of  National  Education 
in  Ireland)  and  of  John  Mac  Donnell,  Esq.,  M.D.,  a  Com-* 
missioner  of  the  Poor  Laws ;  3,  John,  the  third  son  of  the 
aforesaid  Alexander,  son  of  Coll,  remained  on  the  ancient 
family  estate  of  Olenariff,  in  Antrim,  and  he  had  a  son 
Randle,  &ther  of  the  present  Alexander  M'Donnell  of 
Temple-street,  Dublin,  and  of  his  brother  John,  a  Captain 
in  the  Cape  Mounted  Rifles.     All  of  Coil's  line  that  haye 

died  are  likewise  buried  in  Layde. The  adjudications  in 

favour  of  the  '  1649'  Officers  include  the  names  of  Lieutenants 
Alexander  and  Eneas  Mac  Donnell. 

To  return  to  Earl  Randal:  he  died  in  1682,  when  the 
Marquisate  became  extinct;  but  the  other  honors  continued 
to  his  son,  the  above  Colonel,  who  also  had  taken  an  active 
part  in  the  Civil  War  of  1641,  and  was  attainted  therefor, 
but  restored  by  the  Act  of  Settiement    In  1646,  being  then 


166  KIKO  jambs'b  ibish  abmt  ust. 

Earl  of  Antrim  in  his  fisUlier^s  life-time,  he  sat  as  one  of  the 
Temporal  Peers  at  the  Supreme  Comidl  in  Kilkenny;  while 
James  McDonnel  of  Mnff  (who  was  also  buried  at  Lame) 
and  Allen  McDonnell  of  Mnnta^  were  of  the  Commons. 
The  DedaiBtion  of  Bojal  Thanks  in  the  Act  of  1662,  ''for 
services  beyond  the  seas,^  includes  Lieutenant  Charles  and 
Ensign  Alexander  Mc  DonnelL  Li  1668  Alexander  Mac 
Donnell  had  a  confirmatory  grant  of  various  lands  in  the 
barony  of  Gleiiacm,  County  Antrim,  33,545  acres;  ¥rhile,  in 
ten  years  after,  Sr  James  Mac  Donnell,  Baronet,  passed 
patent  for  1,620  in  Mayo.  Li  1686  Eail  Bandal  was 
appointed  of  King  James's  Privy  Council,  in  which  year 
another  Alexander  Mc  Donnell  was  Sheriff  of  Ldtrim.  Li 
1688  a  Colonel  Mc  Donnell  garrisoned  Boyle,  and  *'pre- 
rented  the  tranrit  of  Protestants  with  goods  and  provisions 
towards  the  garrison  of  Sligo;  which,  on  being  requested  to 
permit,  he  aflfected  so  to  do,  but  afterwards  declined  to 
perform,  though  we  (writes  Mackenzie)  looked  upon  him  as 
one  of  the  fiiirest  reputation  among  the  Irish  in  these  parts. 
On  the  approach,  however,  of  our  party  he  drew  all  his  Horse, 
Foot,  and  Dragoons  within  the  walls  of  Lord  Kingston's 
house  and  garden."* 

On  the  18th  of  December,  in  this  year,  Tyrconnel  directed 
a  letter  firom  the  Castle  of  Dublin  to  the  aforesaid  Earl 
Bandal  in  the  words  following : — 

'Mt  Lord, — ^Finding  the  people  of  Londonderry  continue 
obstinate  in  their  rebellion,  and  that  there  appears  no  likeli- 
hood of  redudng  them  by  fidr  means,  I  desire  your  lordship 
to  give  orders  presently  to  all  the  companies  of  your  Regiment 
to  be  in  readiness  to  march  at  an  hour*8  warning;  it  being  my 


ie^$Deny^]^  16. 


-'  CRS^ — wm^mwmmmn^ 


EABL  OF  AKTBIM'S  INFANTBT.  167 

reeolution,  in  case  I  do  not  hear  by  Friday's  post,  that  the 
City  of  Deny  has  submitted,  to  order  them,  with  several 
other  Segments  of  Horse,  Foot,  and  Dragoons,  to  march 

against  it,   and  will  soon   follow  them   myself. Three 

'pacquets*  came  in  this  morning,  but  bronght  very  little 
news;  the  Eong  at  l^?mdsor  'in*  the  head  of  his  army,  which 
lies  all  along  the  Thames;  the  Prince  of  Orange  is  about 
Newbury. — ^The  Queen  and  the  Prince  are  at  Whitehall. 

I  am,  Ac., 

Ttbconnbl.' 
Pray  see  that  youi'  Begim^nt  be,  out  of  hand,  put  into 
order. 

The  original  of  this  despatch  is  in  the  possession  of  Mr. 
Samuel  Wright  Knox  of  Coleralne. 

Besides  Colonel  Alexander  there  Were  six  other  Mc 
Donnells  holding  commissions  in  this  Re^ment.  In  Lord 
Clare's  Dragoon's  Thomas  'Donell'  was  a  Comet;  as  was 

Mc  Donnell  in  Simon  Luttrell's,  and  another  -^ 

Mac  Donnell  was  a  Quarter  Master  in  Maxwell's.  The  name 
was  abo  commissioned  in  Lord  Kenmare's  In&ntry;  and  a 
Mc  Donnell  was  the  Major  of  Colonel  Cormuck  O'Neill's; 
Charles  Mc  DonneU  was  a  Lieutenant  in  the  King's  own. 
Li  Colonel  Owen  Mac  Cartie's  another  was  Lieutenant; 
as  was  Bryan  in  the  Earl  of  Westmeath's  and  Francis  in 

Colonel  John  Grace's ;  while  the  Rev. Mc  Donnell  was 

Chaplain  to  Henry  Luttrell's  Regiment  of  Horse.  The 
Parliament  of  Dublin  in  1689  was  attended  by  this  £ar( 
amongst  the  Peero;  and  amongst  the  Commons  a  Randal 
Mc  Donnell  (who  held  office  in  the  King's  Bench,  as  Clerk 
of  the  Crown  and  Prothonotary),  sat  as  one  of  the  representa- 
tives of  the  Coimty  of  Antrim,  as  did  Alexander  Mc  Donnell 
for  the  Borough  of  Jamestown,  County  of  Leitrim. 


168  KING  JAJiES'S  IBISH  ABICT  USX. 

During  the  eubsequent  siege  of  Derry,  a  Cq)taiii  McDonnell 
was  taken  prisoner,*  while  a  letter  of  the  Doke  of  Berwick, 
dated  5th  July,  1689,  mentioning  his  haying  had  a  skirmish 
with  the  enemy  near  Trellick,  adds  that  Captain  Bellew  and 
Major  Mc  Donnell  commanded  his  yanguard  on  the  occasion ; 
and  about  this  time  an  Alexander  McDonnell  was  appointed 
by  Lord  Tjrrconnel  Governor  of  Galway;  he,  in  the  progress 
of  the  war,  became  a  Brigadier-GeneraL  Colonel  O'Kelly,  in 
his  Eaeidium  Macarice^  says  he  was  a  ''soldier  of  fortune, 
raised  by  merit  from  the  ranks;**  and  Croker,  in  his  brief 
notes  on  that  little  work,  adds  that  he  was  otherwise  called 
'McGregor,*  and  was  of  Drumsna,  County  of  Leitrim.  He 
married  in  1685  the  Lady  Jane  Nugent,  a  sister  of  Thomas 
Nugent,  afterwards  created  Lord  Biyerston.  In  December, 
1690,  he  was  removed  from  the  Government  of  Galway .f  It 
is  remarkable  that  in  the  Outlawries  of  1691  he  is  styled 
Alexander  McDoimeU,  cUiaa  Gregor,  aHae  Boyde,  of  Clonin, 
County  of  Westmeath.  At  the  same  time  were  attainted  in 
Antrim,  Daniel  Mc  Donnell  of  Dunluce,  Alexander  and  John 
of  Glenarm^  Archibald  of  Bed  Bay,  with  Bandal  styled  of 
Dublin,  and  James  of  Ballybantray,  Baronet;  Augustine  of 
Ballynamore  in  Leitrim,  Charles  of  Ballyban  in  Boscommon, 
Walter  of  Ballycaskill  and  CoU  of  Cigie,  the  two  hat  in 
Mayo.  This  Earl  of  Antrim  was  outlawed  on  three  Inquisi- 
tions taken  in  Dublin,  Derry,  and  Antrim;  but,  being 
included  in  the  savings  of  the  Articles  of  Limerick,  he  waa 
restored  to  his  estates,  and  died  in  1699.  At  the  Jacobite 
Court  of  St  Germains,  Captain  'McDonald*  was  one  of  the 
Grooms  of  the  Bedchamber  ;t  while,  from  the  Despatches  of 


•  Walker's  Derry,  p.  61.  t  Clarte^e  James  11.,  v.  2,  p.  428. 

Oarie's  James  //.,  v.  2,  p.  41L 


EABL  OF  AKTBIM'S  INFANTBT.  169 

Sir  Paul  Bycaut,  it  appeara  that  in  1693  a  large  body  of  Irish 
exiles  was  sent  from  France,  under  the  command  of  a  Colonel 
McDonnel,  for  the  service  of  the  Emperor  in  Hungary.* 

At  Chichester  House,  in  1700,  sundry  claims  were  pre- 
ferred as  charges  on  Mc  Doimell  estates,  some  of  which  were 
allowed,  as  that  in  behalf  of  Bandal  then  Earl  of  Antrim,  who 
claimed,  by  descent  firom  his  unde,  certain  lands  which  were 
forfeited  by  Sir  James  and  Daniel  Mc  Donnell ;  while  James 
Mc  Doxmell*s  daim,  on  behalf  of  five  Mc  Donnells,  minors, 
for  remainders  in  tail,  to  which  they  were  successively  entitled 
in  various  lands  forfeited  by  Bandall  McDonnell,  was  also 
allowed.  In  1721  an  Act  of  the  Irish  Parliament  was  passed, 
further  to  secure  the  jointure  of  Bachel,  Countess  Dowager 
of  Antrim,  relict  of  Bandal,  late  Earl  of  Antrim,  deceased, 
and  to  provide  a  portion  for  the  Lady  Helena  McDonnell, 
the  only  daughter  of  said  Earl. 

All  that  has  been  written  above  of  the  Mac  Donnells  in 
deference  to  the  Colonel,  regards  an  offshoot  from  the  parent 
stock  in  Ireland,  which  had  at  a  very  early  period  settled  in 
Scotland,  and  sent  back  thence,  in  the  sixteenth  century,  the 
gaUant  and  noble  ancestors  of  the  McDonnells  that  thence- 
forth  flourished  in  Ulster,  and  of  him  who  ranked  Colonel 
of  this  Begiment.  It  is  therefore  due  to  those  of  the  sept 
who  pre-existed,  and  still  are  known  in  other  parts  of 
Ireland,  and  espedally  in  the  north-western  part  of  Con- 
naught,  to  trace  the  origin  of  the  fiunily.  By  the  testimony 
of  the  native  annals  and  geneal(>gies  its  lineage  is  derived 
frcMB  Donell,  who  was  himself  descended  from  Heremon, 
the  youngest  son  of  Milesius,  through  a  direct  succession 
of  ancestry,  upon  which  are  exhibited  names  that  History 


t  See  Thfurjpe^  CataL  SouOwell  MSS^  p.  69. 


170  KiNa  James's  ibish  abicy  list. 

is  proud  to  record.  Of  these  may  be  partioulacked  Conn, 
styled  'of  the  hundred  battles'  in  the  language  of  the 
bards,  bj  reason  of  his  haying  reduced  thd  provincial  and 
petty  provinces  of  Ireland,  afber  many  conflicts,  to  an 
acknowledgment  of  his  supremacy*  He  died  about  A.D.- 
177.  His  grandson  Cormac  was  early  in  life  driven  fixnn  his 
kingdom  of  Ulster  and  obliged  to  take  refuge  in  Scotland. 
After  a  short  sqoum  there  he  returned  with  auxiliaries  from 
that  country,  and  fought  successftd  battles  against  his  old 
opponents  at  Faughart  and  Crimuu  He  was  nevertheless  ill' 
disposed  to  resume  dominion  under  such  disastrous  auspices, 
and  retiring  to  an  humble  dwelling  near  the  ancient  town  of 
Kells  in  Meath,  he  there  devoted  the  remainder  of  his  life  to 
the  study  of  philosophy  and  religion.  The  pagan  priesthood 
gathered  round  him,  and  in  his  conferences  with  them  he 
induced  such  a  foreshadowing  of  Christian  theism,  that  St. 
Columba,  in  font  centuries  after  his  deaths  caused  a  chapel  to 
be  erected  over  his  grave^  as  commemorative  of  the  earliest 
Irish  convert  from  paganism;  and  certainly  from  his  time 
the  influence  of  heathenism  declined  amongst  that  people. 
Cormac's  grandsons,  known  as  the  three  CoUas,  espousing 
their  ancestor's  resentment,  invaded  Ulster  at  the  conmience- 
ment  of  the  fourth  century,  levelled  the  local  palace  of 
Eamania,  withdrew  all  government  from  its  site,  and  estab- 
lished their  own  on  the  more  fertile  district  of  Uriel  (Louth 
and  Armagh). 

From  CoUa  Uais,  the  eldest  of  these  brothers,  have  come 
down,  as  the  venerable  Camden  records,  the  noble  fiunilies 
of  the  McDonnells  or  McConnells,  both  of  Ireland  and 
Scotland.  The  Annals  of  the  Four  Masters  make  frequent 
mention  of  those  of  Northern  Connaught,  and  of  the  inter- 
course which  existed  between  the  McPonnells  of  the  two 


BABL  OF  AirrBm*8  INFANTRY.  171 

countries.  In  1258  Mac  Sorlej  McDonnell  sailed  round 
Connaught,  with  a  fleet  from  the  Hebrides,  until  he  came 
to  Connemara,  where  he  captured  a  merchant  veeeel  and  seised 
on  the  cargo,  which  consisted  of  triney  clothe  broBSj  and  iron. 
Jordan  Dexeter,  the  Sheriff  of  Connaught,  pursued  Mac 
Sorlej  to  the  island  at  which  he  stopped,  and  near  which 
Ids  ships  were  anchored^  and  a  conflict  ensued,  in  which 
Jordan  was  slain  with  many  others^  Mac  Sorlej  and  his 
people  returned  to  thdr  own  country  joyfully  and  enriched. 
In  the  following  year  a  daughter  of  Dugald,  the  son  of  Mac 
Sorley,  was  married  to  Hugh,  son  of  Felim  O'Connor.  In 
1397  Dugald  McDonneU  and  Cathal  ogs  O'Connor,  having 
prevailed  upon  the  chief  of  Tirconnel  (O'Donnell)  with  his 
adherents,  to  aid  them  agunst  their  enemies,  a  battle  was 
fought  between  the  parties  near  Sligo,  in  which  Marcus  Mac 
Donnell  and  his  son  Donell  with  many  other  chiefs  were  slain. 
The  site  of  this  battle  establishes  the  &ot,  that  this  Mac 
Donnell  was  of  Mayo,  and  the  OConnor,  of  Sligo<  In  1467 
occurred  a  severe  engagement  between  the  Burkes  (aided 
by  the  O'Briens)  and  the  O'Kellys,  in  which  '  Hugh  &uy, 
son  of  Turlough  Mac  Donnell,  constable  of  the  galloglasses, 
ten  of  the  chiefs  of  Clan  Donnell,  and  eight  score  of  the 
Gralloglasses,  with  many  others  beside,  were  slain.'  In  1501, 
say  the  Four  Masters,  Gilla-oia-Naemh^  son  of  Cormac,  son 
of  Art  McDonnell  of  Cloonkelly  (a  district  on  the  confines 
of  Mayo)  was  slidn,  and  the  same  annalists  record  the  death 
of  Colla  Mac  Donnell,  also  of  Cloonkelly,  within  fifteen  years 
after.  In  1593  Eneas  McDonnell,  who  was  the  last  head  of  the 
noble  Abbey  of  Cong,  in  Mayo,  surrendered  its  possessions  to 
the  Crown ;  about  which  time  contests  having  arisen  amongst 
the  Burkes  for  the  title  of '  McWilliam,'  the  Mac  Donnells  of 
Mayo  supported  the  daim  of  William  Burke  of  Shrule. 


172  KIKO  JAHS8*8  IBI8H  ABMY  UST. 

In  the  lamentable  absence  of  parodnal  registries  in  Ireland^ 
and  particularij  in  Connaugfat,  1%b1  evidenoes  of  fiunily  gene* 
alogies  are  hardly  to  be  expected,  nor  would  it  be  required 
for  the  object  of  these  memoin ;  but  scattered  links  can  be 
discovered  in  a  class  of  records  which  the  paramount  vicis- 
dtudes  of  that  country  neoesatated,  as,  inquisitions  p<>$t 
mortem^  outlawries,  attainders  and  confiscations,  giants  of 
pardons  and  protections,  <£c.,  and  when  these  are  diligentlj 
tested  by  fiunily  traditi(ms  and  ancient  trust- worthy  documentSi 
a  oonsidenible  adyanoe  to  belief  may  be  attained.  In  1610 
such  inquisitions  were  held  on  Eneas  and  Maohnurry  McDon- 
nell of  Mayo,  while  licenses  of  pardon  were  about  the  same 
tibme,  OD  King  Jameses  Plantation  scheme,  most  numerously 
taken  out ;  amongst  which  were  those  to  Maohnurry  McDon- 
nell of  Boselee  (Hollymount),  to  Donnell  McDonnell^  Ejught, 
and  to  James  McDonnell,  Knight,  both  of  the  same  locality ; 
to  James  dufe  McDonnell,  to  Owen  and  Boiy  McDonnell, 
to  Conell  offe  and  to  Hugh  buy  McDonnell  of  Batlynaboe, 
to  C<xineU,  son  of  Manus,  to  Turlc^h  roe  McDonnell ;  and 
to  Maohnurry,  son  of  Alexander  McDonnell  of  Ballynama- 
rogue,  all  in  Mayo;  while  the  (dantation  grants,  in  1604  and 
immediately  succeeding  years,  show  what  tracts  of  lands  the 
Sept  forfeited  in  this  County,  even  before  the  great  National 
attainders  of  1642  and  1691.  Grants  thus  alluded  to  passed 
as  o£  parcels  of  the  estates  of  *'  Banell'  McDonnell,  Myles, 
son  of  PheUm,  Hugh  buy  and  Geoffirey  dufe  McDonnell 
of  Ballyallenan,  slain  in  reheUion^  to  John  Eang,  ancestor 

of  the  Viscounts  Lorton; ^parcels  of  the  estate  of  John, 

son  of  Ulick  McDonnell  of  Ballyvenin,  attainiedj  to  Michael 
Cormuck  of  Innismoyne,  a  quarter  of  Ower,  part  of  the  estate 
of  Maohnurry  McDonnell,  alain  in  rebellion^  to  Alderman 
Nicholas  Weston  of  Dublin; ^parcel   of  the  estate  of 


EABL  OF  AKTBIM*8  IKFANTBY.  173 

Turloiigh  roe  'Mac  Connell  aliaa  McDonnell/  attainted^  to 

John  Baxter ; of  Allen  McConnell  to  Sir  John  Everard ; 

of  Alexander,  son  of  Hugh  buy  McConnell  of  Balackan, 

attainted,  to  Sir  John  King;  while  Strafford's  Survey  of  the 
County  in  1635  shows  McDonnells  to  have  been  theretofore 
further  seised  of  Clogher,  Comeireigh,  Drombraddan,  Car- 
ronkillin,  Kinlevy,  Lisbragane,  CarrowBrro,  with  yarious 
other  townlands.  Some  few  and  small  grants  had  been  made 
in  1612  et  eeq,  to  native  residents,  as  to  James,  son  of  Lysagh 
McDonnell;  to  Farragh  oge  McDonnell,  to  Coll  duffe;  to 
Allen,  son  of  GiUaspeg  and  to  Randle  McDonnell,  all  these 
being  described  as  of  the  before-mentioned  locality  of  Bosslee 
(HoUymount),  Qxk  the  vicinity  of  which  Mr.  Christopher 
Chevers  McDonnell,  hereafter  named,  has  inherited  landed 
property).  As  the  above  numerous  forfeitures  antidpated 
those  which  overwhelmed  this  cotmtry  in  1641,  not  a  single 
McDonnell  of  Mayo  appears  upon  the  Boll  of^  outlawries  of 
that  period. 

In  that  year  Jamee  McDonnell  Vas  one  of  the  Committee 
appointed  by  the  Confederate  Catholics  at  Kilkenny  to  draw 
up  a  form  of  government  for  Ireland.  On  the  Boll  of 
Adjudications  decreed  after  the  Bestoration,  in  fiivour  of  the 
Officers  who  fought  in  this  country  for  Boyalty,  to  the  time 
of  King  Charles's  decapitation,  appear  the  names  of  Lieu- 
tenants Alexander  and  Eneas  McDonnell;  and,  on  the 
enrolments  of  Connaught  Certificates  in  1667  stand  Cahir, 
James,  Charles,  and  Sir  James  McDonnell.  This  last  was 
a  Baronet,  and  got  from  the  Crown,  in  ten  years  after,  a 
very  extensive  grant  of  lands  in  the  Barony  of  Grallen,  in 
Mayo,  subject  to  the  payment  of  £400  to  John  Bingham 
of  Bellanalabe. 

One  of  those  genealogical  certificates,  which,  in  the  times 


174  KiNa  James's  irish  arbtt  list. 

of  Catholio  persecution  in  Ireland,  was  neoessitated  to  intro- 
duce cadets  from  that  coimtry  to  foreign  service,  was  obtained 
in  December,  1732,  on  behalf  of  James  McDonnell,  who  had 
been  born  in  Mayo  in  1693.  It  was,  in  the  usual  manner, 
avouched  hj  the  bands  and  seals  of  the  Archbishop  of  the 
Province  and  the  Bishops  of  the  Sees  wheiw  the  applicant 
resided,  or  was  known;  in  this  case  bj  the  Archbishop  of 
Tuam  and  the  Bishops  of  Killalla  and  Ardagh;  and  from 
this  document  it  appears  that  an  ancestor  of  said  James, 
having  marned  a  daughter  of  Q'Buarc,  styled  Prince  of 
Bre&ey,  had  a  son  Coll  Handle  McDonnell,  who,  as  shown 
by  andent  pedigrees  and  correspondence,  and  by  the  will  of 
the  above  Jaines,  became  the  husband  of  a  daughter  of 
0*Connor-Sligoe,  an  illustrious  Sept  hereafter  noticed,  and 
he  seems  identical  with  the  Coll  described  as  of  Cigie,  and 
attainted  in  1691,  as  above.  His  son,  Miles,  married 
Honoria  O^Malley,  of  another  not  less  ancient  Sept  within 
Mayo,  and  he  had  by  her  five  sons  and  one  daughter:  1, 
Charles;  2,  Bandle  (of  "whom  hereinafter);  3,  Eneas,  a 
traveller,  who  wrote  a  history  of  Jamaica;  4,  the  above 
James,  who,  having  obtained  the  aforesaid  certificate,  entered 
the  military  service  of  the  Emperor  of  Germany,  in  which 
he  early  so  distinguished  himself,  that  Charles  the  Sixth 
constituted  him  a  Grand  Chamberhun,  and  conferred  upon 
him  in  1738,  when  he  had  risen  to  the  rank  of  Lieutenant- 
Colonel,  the  title  of  Count,  transmissible  to  his  hsm  male 
and  female.  His  patent  recites  the  capture  of  the  celebrated 
Marshal  Villeroi  at  Cremona  by  another  member  of  this 
fiunUy,  also  a  gallant  officer  in  the  Imperial  service.  5,  The 
fifth  son  of  Miles  was  Bonaventure,  a  Catholic  Bishop  in 
Ireland,  while  the  only  daughter  was  married  to  ■  ■  ■ 
Grarvey,  ancestor  of  the  &mily  of  Murrisk- Abbey. 


£ABL  OF  ANTRIM*0  INFANTBT.  175 

Handle,  styled  of  Bosbeg,  the  second  son  of  Myles,  bom 
in  1686,  married  Jane  Lynch  of  Partry,  and  died  in  1766, 
leaving  issue  by  her  three  sons  and  six  daughters ;  1,  Joseph, 
of  Carranaoon,  of  whom  presently;  2,  Charles,  who  married 
Jane  Miller,  and  had  by  her  five  sons  and  one  daughter;  3, 
Eneas,  who  married  Harriet  O'Donnell.  Of  the  daughters 
the  eldest  became  the  wife  of  a  James  McDonnell,  on  whose 
death  she  married  Thomas  Tyrrel  to  her  second  husband, 
and  by  him  bad  a  daughter,  Catherine,  whose  name  is 
immortalized  in  the  fine  old  Irish  melody  of   *  Kathleen 

Tryall.'- The  above  Joseph  of  Carranacon  married  Mary 

Lynch  of  Castle-Cana,  in  Mayo,  by  whom  he  had--rl,  John, 
hereafter  noticed ;  2,  Miles,  of  Doo  Castle,  who  married  Mary 
Amie  Hughes,  and  had  issue — (i,  Joseph  Myles,  late  a 
member  of  ParliameQt  for  Mayo,  who  married  Eleanor 
Lynch  of  Cartron,  County  Galway,  and  had  issue  by  her; 

ii.  Myles,  who  married  Catherine  Lynch  of  Ballycurrane 

Castle;  with  two  other  sons  and  two  daughters);  3,  James- 
Joseph,  who,  having  been  unfortunately  implicated  in  the 
rebellion  of  1798,  died  an  exile  in  America.  Joseph  of 
Carranacon  had  likewise  four  daughters.  John,  the  eldest  son 
of  said  Joseph,  married  Celia,  daughter  of  John  Dolphin  of 
Turoe,  and  had  issue  by  her  two  daughters,  Eleanor  and  Cecilia 
(the  latter  married  Boderic  O'Connor  of  Miltown,  County 
KoscommoQ,  Barrister,  of  whom  see  ante^  vol.  1,  p.  143),  with 
a  son,  Joseph,  who  died  unmarried  in  1835.  Eleanor,  who 
became  the  wife  of  John  Chevers  of  Killian,  in  the  County 
of  Galway,  lately  deceasedi  has  issue  by  him  as  mentioned  post 
in  the  Mount-Leinster  memoir.  Christopher,  her  second  son, 
now  (as  tliere  noticed)  bears  the  additional  surname  of 
McDonnell. 
,    It  may  be  added  in  reference  to  the  Mayo  McDonnells,' 


176  KING  JAMKS*S  IBISH  ABMT  LIST. 

that  in  the  year  of  the  great  earthquake  at  Lisbon  (1755), 
Anthony,  Dominiok,  and  Terence  McDonnell,  of  Urkre,  in 
Mayo,  were  students  at  the  Catholic  CoUege  in  that  city, 
and  the  former  perished  in  the  awful  Tisitation.  In  the 
following  year  Francis  McDonnell  was  Prior,  and  Anthony 
McDonnell  Sub-Prior  of  the  Abbey  of  Burrishoole. 

This  memoir  of  the  McDonnells  of  Mayo  has  been  intro- 
duced here  as,  although  many  of  that  surname  i^pear 
commissioned  in  this  list,  and  especially  in  the  Earl  of 
Antrim's  Segment,  none  could  be  traoed  with  any  genea- 
logical certainty  to  Mayo.  On  Colonel  Oliver  0'Gam*s 
Regiment  lliey  should  have  held,  and  possibly  did  hold  rank, 
but  the  return  of  its  strength  is  defective  on  the  College  *  List,* 
and  is  whoUy"  vacant  in  the  British  Museum  copy.  The 
circnmstance  of  Coll,  the  ancestor  of  Mr.  Chevers  McDonnell, 
having  been  one  of  those  attainted  in  1691,  and  having  been 
on  such  his  outlawry  described  as  of  Cigie,  in  Mayo,  suggests 
his  having  done  service  for  King  James. 

The  name  of  McDonnell  is  also  distinguished  as  settled  in 
Clare,  in  the  Queen's  County,  and  in  liVlcklow.  See  Dr. 
O'Donovan's  notes  on  the  Four  Masters,  ad  ann.  1570. 


CAPTAIN  LORD  *  INNISKILLEN,' 

(bogeb  mac  guibe.) 

The  Irish  county,  now  known  as  Fermanagh,  of  which 
Ennisldllen  is  the  chief  town,  was  anciently  the  principality 
of  the  Sept  of  Mao  Guire,  who  held  it  for  centuries  after 
the  Invasion,  independent  of  English  government;  and  were, 
according  to  tbe  Irish  form,  solemnly  inaugurated  at  Lis- 


naekent.  In  the  time  of  James  the  Fbrst,  hotrever,  Ulster, 
mduding  their  territory,  fell  into  the  potrer  of  the  Crown 
by  the  AttftinderB  of  O'Neill,  O^Donnel,  Mac  Guire,  &c., 
and  was  subjected  to  the  allocations  and  disposition  of  the 
Plantation.  Nerertheless,  Connor  Boe  Mae  Guire,  then  the 
acknowledged  Captain  of  his  name,  obtained  from  Eang 
James  a  re-grant  of  12,000  acres  of  the  confiscations  of  his 
ancestors,  and  was  created  Baron  of  Ennishillen,  a  title 
which  passed  in  his  descendants  to  the  nobleman  here  in* 
trodttced. 

Of  the  earlier  notices  of  this  Sept  it  may  be  tnentioned 
that  when,  in  1314,  King  Edward  was  about  to  prosecute 
the  war  in  Scotland,  he  directed  an  especial  letter  missire 
to  ^  Laveragh  Mac  Wyr,  dnd  Blbemorum,'  seeking  his  aid 
on  the  expedition.  In  1338,  say  the  Masters  '  died  Boderio 
Mac  Guire  the  hospitable,  Lord  of  Fermanagh^  a  man  who, 
in  making  prescmits  of  money,  of  clothing,  of  steeds,  and  other 
goods  to  the  learned  men  and  professors  of  Ireland,  was  the 
most  liberal  of  the  clan  to  his  time.'  When  Edmund  Mor* 
timer,  who  had  married  the  grand-daughter  of  Edward  the 
Third,  come  over  to  Ireland  as  Lord  Lieutenant  in  1379, 
varioi»  native  chiefe  waited  upon  him,  and  amongst  these 
the  Mac  Gmre.  In  1428  ''  Hugh,  son  of  Philip  Mac  Guire, 
died  at  Elnsate,  on  his  landing  from  Spain,  where  he  had 
been  perfornung  the  pilgrimage  of  St.  James  of  Compostella. 
Thomas  Oge  Mac  Guire,  who  had  accompanied  him,  con- 
Teyed  his  body  to  Cork,  where  it  was  buried.'*  In  1450 
Piers  (Peter)  Maguire,  Bishop  of  Clogher,  died  at  Cleenish, 
and  was  interred  at  Lisgoole ;  and,  in  1471,  the  aforesaid 
^Thomas  offe  resigned  hie  lordship,  after  Ixmng  spent  tl^ 
greater  portion  of  his  life-tame  in  performing  acts  of  charity,- 
hosfntality,  and  noble  deeds.    He  conferred  the  lordship  on 

VOL.  II.  N 


178  KINa  JAMBS'S  IBI8H  ABMY  LIST. 

Iu8  son  Edmund,  appointed  his  second  son  tanist,  and  left 
Ids  third  son  Rossa,  in  the  Bishopric  of  Clogher.*  His  death 
is  thus  conunemorated  by  the  Masters :  '  In  1480  died  Thomas 
oge^  son  of  Thomas  more^  son  of  Philip,  son  of  Hugh  roe 
Mac  Guire,  the  most  dis^guished  of  his  time  for  alms-doing, 
piety,  and  hospitality,  a  man  who  defended  his  territory 
against  invading  foes,  a  founder  of  monasteries  and  churches^ 
a  donor  of  chalices,  a  man  who  was  at  IU>me,  and  twice 
Tisited  the  City  of  St  James  (of  Compostella).  He  was 
interred  in  the  monastery  of  Cavan,  having  selected  that  as 
his  burial  place.* 

In  1503  '  the  Mao  Guire,  t.  e,  John,  son  of  Philip,  son  of 
Thomas  more^  namely  the  Giolla  duv^  one  of  the  most  worthy 
of  the  chieftains  of  Ireland  in  his  time,  the  most  meiciftil 
and  humane  Irishman,  and  who  l)est  protected  his  territory 
and  estate,  the  most  valiant  in  war  against  opposing  tribes 
and  distant  enemies,  th^  most  distinguished  for  good  govern* 
ments,  laws,  and  regulations,  both  in  church  and  oountry, 
died  in  lus  own  fortress  of  Ennisldllen,  and  was  buried  in 
the  monastery  of  the  friars  at  Donegal,  he  having  selected  it 
for  that  purpose;  while  in  1518  'Felim,  son  of  Bryan,  son 
of  Conor  age  Maguire,  died?  having  returned  firom  the  City 
of  St.  James  of  Compostella,  after  a  year's  pilgrimage,  and 
he  was  interred  in  the  monastery  of  Monaghan.* 

The  influence  of  the  Mac  Guire  in  a  later  century  is  thus 
spoken  of  by  Sir  John  Davis,  in  a  report  to  the  King's 
Council: — '^Concerning  Fermanagh,  otherwise  Mac  Guire's 
country,  that  territory  was  never  reduced  to  the  Crown  from 
the  conquest  of  Ireland,  either  by  surrender,  attainder,  or 
other  resumption  whatever,  until  Sir  John  Perrot's  govern*- 
ment;  who  caused  Lord  Conogher,  &ther  of  Hugh  Mao 
Gmre,  who  was  a  prinapal  actor  in  the  late  rebellion,  and 


EABL  OF  AITTBIH'S  INFAITTBT.  179 

slain  in  Munster,  to  surrender  all  the  County  of  Fermanagh 
in  general  words  unto  the  late  Queen,  and  to  take  new  pa- 
tents back  again  of  all  the  County  in  like  general  words 
to  him  and  his  heirs,  whereupon  was  reserved  a  rent,  &c/' 
On  the  Plantation  of  Ulster,  which  was  much  influenced  by 
this  representation  of  the  then  Attomey-Greneral,  Bryan  Mao 
Gruire  had  a  grant  of  various  lands  in  the  old  district,  created 
the  manor  of  Inseyloughagease,  with  license  for  fidrs  and 
markets,  to  hold  same  for  ever,  as  of  the  Castle  of  Dublin 
in  common  soceage,  subject  to  the  conditions  of  the  Plan* 
tation.  In  1610  Sir  Conor  roe  Maguire  had  a  pension 
granted  to  him  of  £333  Os.  8d«  for  bis  gallant  services  against 
the  rebels  at  Tyrone,  where  he  had  eight  horses  killed  imder 
him.  The  entry  adding  that  Queen  Elizabeth  had  given  to 
him  the  whole  County  of  Fermanagh,  which  he  surrendered 
on  getting  two  Baronies  assured  to  him  by  Royal  grant,  but 
afterwards  gave  up  one  to  the  crown  to  fiioilitate  the  Plan* 
tation.  Of  this  pension  £100  was  made  payable  on  his 
decease  to  his  son  for  Aw  life.  Others  of  this  Sept  were  fidn 
then  to  take  out  patents  from  the  Crown,  while  Dame  Mar- 
garet Mac  Gwyre,  on  the  grant  of  a  yearly  pension  of  £100, 
surrendered  all  her  right  of  dower  off  Fermanagh. 

The  Act  for  the  attainders  of  the  Ulster  septs  and  Icurds 
(1612),  makes  express  mention  of  Sir  Hugh  Mac  Guire,  as 
having  then  lately  fitUen  in  the  field  in  rebellion.  In  1616, 
however,  the  King's  letter  issued  to  accept  a  surrender  from 
Connor  roe  Mac  Guire,  of  an  annual  pension  of  £200  granted 
to  him  for  his  life,  and  of  £50  after  his  death  for  one  of  his 
sons,  which  had  been  granted  to  him  in  consideration  of  tiie 
surrender  of  his  right  to  Fermanagh,  excepting  the  Barony 
of  MagherarStephanagh,  and  to  grant  him  thenceforth  an 
annual  pension  of  £250  English  during  his  life,  and  others 


18Q  kutg  James's  vbosb  abmt  list. 

of  £50  each  for  any  two  of  his  sons,  and  also  all  fines  and 
forfeitures  in  said  barony.  In  1618  died  Brian  Ever  Mac 
Gwyre,  seised  of  estates  in  Fermanagh,  Cuohonagh  Mac 
Gwyer  was  his  son  and  heir,  then  aged  18  years.  In  1626 
this  Cuchonagh*s  brother,  Cormac  Magwyre  died  in  full  age 
and  married.  In  the  preyious  year  the  aforesaid  Conor  Roe 
Magwyer  of  Maghentr  Stephana  died,  leaying  Bryan  roe 
his  son  and  heir,  then  aged  36  and  married.  In  1629  died 
John  gurtoffh  Magwyre,  Redmond  his  son  and  heir  being 
then  aged  15.  The  deaths  of  various  other  members  of  this 
sept  are  of  subsequent  reoord,  in  inquisitions,  which  ^ve 
their  names  with  those  of  4iheir  heirs,  and  the  ages  of  the 
latter,  but  however  importani  such  details  may  be  in  many 
other  eases,  iheir  partial  omission  in  tiiis  is  deemed  excusable. 
The  Sept,  it  may  be  concluded,  suffered  yet  more  severely 
in  the  confiscations  of  1642,  by  reason  of  the  part  they  had 
taken  with  Lord  Mac  Guire  ;  while,  beyond  their  ancient 
district,  were  attainted  Murrough  and  Thomas  Mac  Guire  of 
Angestown,  County  of  Meath,  and  Donogh  Mac  Guire  of 
Gastlemartin,  County  of  Kildajre.  Cromwell's  Act  of  1652 
excepted  from  pardon  for  life  and  estate  ^  Connor  Mac  Guire, 
Baron  of  Enniskillen;*  while,  on  the  other  hand,  the  declara* 
tion  of  Royal  gratitude,  for  services  beyond  the  seas,  recognises 
those  of  Ensign  Connor  Mao  Guire,  and  of  Patrick  Mac 
Guire  of  BaUykUcunny,  *  County  of  Enniskillen.'  O'Cal- 
kgfaan  says  {Brigades,  v.  1,  p.  279,)  that  one  of  this  Sept, 
on  being  compelled  to  leave  Ulster,  retired  to  the  Parish 
of  Mac  Elligott  near  Tralee,  whence  his  grandson  passed  to 
Yieima,  and  there,  through  the  interest  of  a  Trinamftn^  he 
procured  a  commisaon  for  his  son  in  the  Imperial  army. 
That  son  defended  Dresden  in  1760  against  Fiederick  the 
Ghreat,  and  ranked  Colonel  of  a  Regiment  of  four  Battalions, 


BAKL  OF  ANTRIM'S  IHTAKTBT.  181 

a  Count  of  the  Holy  Boman  Empire,  and  a  Lieutenant- 
General  of  their  Imperial  Majesties'  armies. 

In  1661,  on  information  that  one  James  'Mac  Wyer, 
then  Sub-Sheriff  of  the  County  of  Westmeath  and  an  Ensign 
in  his  Majesty's  army,  had  nevertheless  theretofore  been  a 
commissioned  officer  with  the  Irish  rd^eh  in  1647,  and  then 
commanded,  under  the  said  rebels,  the  castle  of  Castle-Sickard, 
and  that  his  wife  was  a  Papist,  the  Irish  House  of  Commons 
prayed  the  Lords  Justices  forthwith  to  remove  said  James 
from  all  employment,  civil  and  military;  while  in  1662  another 
vote  of  that  House,  '  on  behalf  of  Cudionagh  Mac  Gwyre, 
grandson  of  Bryan  Mac  Gwyre,  who  had  in  a  very  high  and 
ample  manner,  testified  his  loyalty  to  the  King  and  aflfeetion 
to  the  Protestant  religion,  not  only  by  discovering  the  horrid 
rebellion  begun  in  1641,  but  in  performing  many  other 
acceptable  and  memorable  services  and  continuing  all  along, 
to  his  death,  fidthful  to  the  Protestant  cause  in  tiiis  kingdom, 
ordered  that  the  estate  of  his  said  grand-&ther,  having  never 
been  <]Uspo6ed  of  or  set  out  to  adventurers,  should  be  settled 
and  confirmed  upon  him  and  his  heirs,  audi  that  a  Bill  be 
prepared  for  that  purpose.* 

In  1685-6  the  Earl  of  Sunderland  wrote  by  the  Ringed 
order  firom  WhitdiAll  to  the  Earl  of  Clareiidon,  ih^n  the 
Irish  Viceroy,  recommending  to  his  Excellency  Dr.  Dominick 
Maguire,  then  Roman  Catholic  Archbishop  of  Armagh,  and 
the  other  prelates  of  that  communion  in  Ireland,  *'  for  patron* 
age  and  protectitm  upon  all  occasions;^  and  desiring  his 
Excellency  to  recommend  to  the  Prelates  of  the  established 
church,  and  to  the  Sheiiffi)  and  Justices  of  the  Peace  there, 
not  to  molest  the  Roman  Catholic  clergy,  in  the  exercise  of 
their  AAAlAaiaflH/HLl  functions  amongst  those  of  their  own 
communion.    The    King  further  directed  the  payment  of 


182  KING  James's  ibish  abmt  list. 

certain  sums  out  of  the  Irish  Exchequer  to  the  said  Catholic 
Primate  to  be  partly  for  himself,  and  other  parts  in  trust 
annuities  for  certain  other  Roman  Catholic  Bishops.*  The 
total  sum  so  allocated  for  this  hierarchy  was  £2,190  per 
annum,  to  be  pud  to  the  Primate,  'without  any  account 
impressed  or  other  charges  to  be  set  upon  him»' 

Lord  Enniskillen,  though  here  tanked  as  but  a  Captain, 
was  Lord  Lieutenant  of  the  County  of  Fermanagh,  after- 
wards sat  as  a  Peer  in  the  Parliament  of  1689,  and  ultimately 
commanded  in  this  war  a  Regiment  which  he  had  himself 
raised.  He  fought  at  Aughrim,  where  fell  Colonel  Art  Mac 
Guire  of  Tempo,  '  one  of  the  chief  noblemen  of  Ulster,  and  a 
•tout  warrior.'  Another  Lifimtxy  Regiment,  alluded  to  here- 
after, was  led  by  Colonel  Cudionagh  Mac  Guire,  the  Deputy 
Lieutenant  of  Fennanagh^  as  he  was  its  Sheriff  in  1686 ; 
while  in  the  Earl  of  Clancarty's  Lifimtry  Alezand^  Mac 
Guire  was  a  Captain. 

The  attainders  of  1691  present  the  nlunes  of  Lord  Ennis- 
killen^ Cuchonagh  of  Lisnaskea,  County  of  Fermanagh  (of 
whom  hereaftei^  Alexander,  also  of  Lisnaskea,  Thomas  of 
MuUintoose,  County  Antrim,  James  of  Ballinecurvin,  County 
Cork)  and  Domiidck  Mac  Guire,  '  commonly  called  Primate 
of  Leland.*  After  the  capitulation  of  Limerick,  Lord  Ennis- 
killen accompanied  the  Lish  Refugee  Army  to  France ;  but, 
having  no  Regiment  assigned  to  him  there,  he  retired  to  St. 
Germains,  where  he  died  in  October^  1708,  aged  67.  He 
was  succeeded  by  his  brother  Phillip,  as  the  sixth  Lord 
Enniskillen,  who,  by  his  wife,  the  daughter  of  Sir  Phelim 
O'Neill  of  Kinard,  and  sister  to  Brigadier  Gordon  O'Neill, 
had  a  son  Theophilusi  the  seventh  Lord  Enniskillen ;  the  son 

■  ■  I  ■  1     ■  .  I  I      Ml  ■         I 

*  CFCJaXUsghmU  Maoarw  Exddium^  p.  30&  ^ 


BASL  OF  ANTEQf'S  IKFANTBT.  183 

of  which  latter  nobleman,  bj  his  lady,  Margaret  O'Donnell, 
of  the  Tyrconnel  line,  was  named  Alexander,  and  accounted 
eighth  Lord  Enniskillen.  He  was  an  Officer  of  the  Irish 
Brigades,  and,  about  the  middle  of  the  last  centuij,  a  Captain 
in  Bulkelej's  Begiment.* 

A  Maguire  appears,  commissioned  as  a  Lieutenant,  in 
Colonel  Owen  Mac  Cartie*s  Infantxy. 

The  above  Colonel  Cuchonagh  Mac  Guire  was  cut  down 
at  the  pass  of  Au^irim,  leatdng  by  his  wife  (a  Magennis  of 
Castlewellan)  three  sons,  of  whom  the  two  youngest  died 
unmarried;  the  eldest^  Bryan,  was  restored  to  a  part  of  his 
estate  and  died  in  1700.  His  son,  Robert,  succeeded  him, 
but,  dying  without  issue^  his  younger  brother,  Hugh,  a 
Colonel  in  the  Austrian  service,  became  the  representative 
of  this  ancient  &niily,  for  but  a  short  interval;  he  also  died 
in  1763,  without  issue;  and  according  to  Sir  Bernard  Burke 
Edward  Maguire  of  Gortoral  House  in  Fermanagh,  D.L.,  is 
the  direct  lineal  descendant  of  the  Chie£ 


CAPTAIN  MANUS  O'DONNELL 

The  researches  of  O'Callaghan,  as  set  forth  in  his  recently* 
published  History  of  the  Irish  Brigades,  Vol.  1,  pp.  212,  231, 
376,  405,  and  those  of  Dr.  O'Donovan  in  the  Appendix  to 
the  Four  Masters,  vol.  3,  are  so  fully  illustrative  of  this  noble 
Sept  as  to  make  it  preferable  to  restrict  their  memoir  here  to 

*  (TCaUaghaiCs  Irish  Brigades,  rol.  I,  p.  276,  where  much  is  written 
of  oilier  Mac  Gkdfes,  diBtingoishfid  in  fbrdga  sertioe,  and  espedaUy  of 
John  jSgismuiid  Maguire. 


184  EJKa  9AMm^9  1BI8H  A«MT  LIST. 

the  more  prominent  features  of  th^  lineaget  which,  aocording 
to  the  native  AniuJiste,  waa  derived  from  Niall  of  the  nine 
hostages,  whose  glorious  achievements  have  made  him  the 
^veted  progenitor  of  the  oldest  Septs.  ConaU  Golban,  say 
they,  was  his  fifth  son,  and  endowed  With  that  district  in 
Ulster  called  from  him  TirConnell.  In  the  eleventh 
century,  when  surnames  were  first  adopted  ixx  Ireland,  the 
ruler  of  this  country  took  that  of  0*D(mndl,  and  his  lineal 
descendants,'  down  to  the  time  of  James  the  first,  were 

inaugurated  its  chiefs  on  the  rock  of  Doon4 ^In  1244  the 

O'Dopnell  was  specially  requested  by  King  Heniy  the  Thirds 
who  styled  him  King  of  TyrconneU^  to  j(»n  the  Irish  arma^ 
ment  then  convened  for  service  in  Scotland.  In  1257,  say 
the  Four  Masters,  "  a  brilliant  battle  was  fought  by  Qeoffi?ey 
O'Donnell  Lord  of  Tircsonnelli  against  the  Lord  Justiee  of 
Ireland,  Maurice  Fitzgerald,  and  the  English  of  Connaught, 
^t  Credrain  Ciller  in  Boscede,  in  the  territory  of  Carbury, 
north  of  Sligo,  in  defence  of  his  principality.  A  fierce  ami 
terrible  conflict  it  was,  in  which  bodies  were  hewed^  horses 
disabled,  and  the  strength  of  both  sides  exhausted ;  the  men 
of  Tirconnell  maintained  thar  ground,  and  completely  over- 
threw the  English  forces  in  the  engagement,  and  defeated 
them  with  great  slaughter,  but  Oeofirey  himself  was  severely 
wounded,  having  encountered  in  the  fight  Maurice  Fitacgerald 
in  single  combat,  in  which  they  desperately  wounded  each 
pther.  By  this  fortunate  victory  the  English  and  the 
Geraldines  were  driven  from  North  Connaught.  .  .  .  • 
Donogh,  the  son  of  Cormac  O'Dcmnell,  was  slain  in  the  thick 
of  the  fight;  the  people  of  Tirconnell  then  returned  home, 
in  consequence  of  the  dangerous  wounds  of  O'Donnell,  for 
otherwise  he  would  have  pursued  the  defeated  English  to  the 
Moy.    On  Geoffirey^s  return  home  he  demolished  the  Castle 


%AJELh  ov  aktbim's  ikfantbt.  185 

of  Caoluifloe,  which  had  been  erected  by  the  English  to  keep 
the  people  of  Tiroonnell  in  subjection.''  GeoflBrey  O'Donnell 
"  w«a  Unfilled  by  his  wounds  at  Lough  Beatagh  for  the  space 
of  a  year  after  the  battle  of  Credndn.  When  O'Neill 
(Bryan)  received  intelligence  of  this,  he  collected  his  forces 
for  the  purpose  of  marching  into  Tiroonnell,  and  sent 
messengers  to  O'Donnell  demanding  sureties,  hostages,  and 
submission  trom  the  Tiiconellians,  as  they  had  no  lord 
capable  to  govern  them  after  Geoffirey.  The  messengers 
having  delivered  their  commands  to  O'Donnell,  returned 
bade  with  all  possible  speed.  O'Donnell  summoned  the 
ConeUians  6com  all  quarters  to  wait  on  him,  and  th^  having 
assembled  at  their  lord's  call,  he^  ordered  them,  as  he  was 
not  able  to  lead  them,  to  prepare  for  him  the  coffin  in  which 
fats  remains  should  finally  be  conveyed,  to  place  him  therein, 
and  to  cany  him  in  the  very  midst  of  his  people;  he  told 
them  to  fight  bravely  as  he  was  amongst  them,  and  not  to 
submit  to  the  power  of  their  enemies.  They  then  proceeded 
in  battle  array,  at  the  Command  of  thdor  lord,  to  meet 
O'Neill's  force,  until  both  armies  confronted  each  other  at 
the  river  called  Suileach  (Swilly);  at  length  the  Tyroniana 
were  defeated  and  driven  back,  leaving  behind  them  many 
of  thdr  men,  horses,  and  much  property.  On  the  return  of 
the  Conellian  force  from  their  victory,  the  coffin  in  which 
O'Donnell  was  borne  was  laid  down  on  the  place  where 
the  battle  was  fought,  where  his  spirit  departed  from  the 
mortification  of  the  wounds  he  had  received  in  the  battie  of 
Credrain;  and  his  death  was  not  dishonourable,  for  in  all 
his  expeditions  he  was  victorious  over  his  enemies.  When 
O'Neill  received  intelligence  of  the  death  of  O'Donnell,  he* 
again  sent  messengers  to  the  ConneTlians,  demanding  hostages 
and  submission  from  them;  upon  which  the  ConneBans  held 


186  KINO  James's  ibish  abmt  list. 

a  consultation  to  determine  what  they  should  do,  and  to 
decide  to  what  chief  they  should  yield  obedience  and  sub- 
mission, for  they  had  no  acknowl^ed  lord  to  command  them 
after  the  death  of  Oeoi&ey.  While  thuid  deliberating  they 
beheld  Donald  oge^  the  son  of  Donald  mare  O'Donnell,  who 
had  arrived  fixmi  Scotland,  a  noble  and  intelligent  youth  in 
his  eighteenth  year,  on  whom  the  Connellians  conferred  the 
chieftainship.  This  was  a  proper  election,  foi*  he  was  by 
right  their  own  lawful  lord.*  (He  was,  according  to  native 
heraldry,  the  20th  in  lineal  descent  firom  Niall.)  The 
Conellians  informed  him  of  their  choice^  and  at  the  same 
time  communicated  to  him  the  message  they  had  received 
from  O^Neill,  at  which  he  expressed  his  indignation  and 
contempt;  and  on  that  ocdosion  he  made  use  of  that  ezcieUent 
old  sa]ring  in  the  Albanan-Gaelic  whicb  they  used  in  con- 
ferring with  the  messengers,  viz.,  that  every  man  should  have 
his  own  country  I  Similar  to  the  return  of  Tuathal  Teachmar 
over  the  seas  fixmi  Albain  (Scotland),  where  the  chieftains 
of  Ireland  were  expell^  by  the  Aithech-Tuatha  (Attacota), 
was  the  return  of  Donal  oge  O'Donnell  from  Albain,  in  sup- 
porting the  rights  of  Princes,  in  reconciling  chiefs,  and  in 
defending  his  own  territory  from  foreigners,  from  the  day  he 
was  inaugurated  in  his  lordship  to  the  day  of  lus  deatL" 

In  1262  this  Donal  oge  ^marched  with  a  force  first  into 
Fermanagh,  from  thence  to  the  rough  district  of  Connaught 
(t.  0.,  Leitrim),  and  as  &r  as  Ghnnard  of  Teffia  (in  Longford); 
and  in  all  the  places  through  which  he  passed  the  people  paid 
him  tribute  and  yielded  him  submission,  aftier  which  he  returned 
home  victoriously.'  The  Four  Masters  indeed  are  elaborate 
on  his  achievements  in  this  and  subsequent  years.  In  1313 
his  son  Hugh  had  a  sinular  Boyal  summons  to  the  war  in 
Scotland;  he  died  in  1333,  as  the  Four  Masters  relate, '  Lord 


EABL  OF  A1ITSIM*8  INFANTBT.  187 

of  Tyiconnelly  Kinell  Moam,  Inisowen,  Fermanagh,  North 
Connaugkt,  and  Brefnej,  and  heir  to  the  Crown  of  Ulster; 
the  most  dreaded  and  formidable  to  his  enemies  of  any  of  the 
Irish  in  his  time,  a  man  hj  whom  most  of  the  English  fell| 
and  also  of  the  Irish  who  were  opposed  to  him;  one,  whose 
government,  laws,  and  regulations,  were  superior  to  any  of  his 
neighbouring  chiefd.  i  .  *  He  died  in  a  monastic  habit,  and 
was  buried  with  great  honour  and  sdiemnitj  in  the  monastery 
of  Easroa  (near  Ballyshannon).  The  Chief  of  this  sept  in 
1394  was  one  of  the  Dynasts  of  Ulster^  that  rendered  homage 
to  Richard  the  Second  in  the  Dominican  Friary  of  Drogheda; 
but  Nial  garbh  0*Donnell,  who  was  the  Chief  in  1422,  and 
some  succeeding  years,  maintained  constant  hostilities  against 
the  English,  until  having  been  taken  prisoner  in  1434,  he  was 
delivered  to  Sir  Thomas  Stanley^  the  Ldrd  Justice^  who  sent 
him,  in  1439,  a  captive  to  the  Isle  of  Man;  in  order  that  he 
might  be  redeemed  from  the  English,  and  a  hundred  marks 
were  offered  fot  his  ransom ;  but  he  died  while  in  captivity. 
Naghtan  0*Donnell,  his  brother,  was  appointed  his  successor/* 
In  1474,  says  the  same  annalists,  '  the  monastery  of  Donegal 
was  founded  by  Hugh  roe^  i.e*j  the  O'Donnell,  son  of  Nial 
ffarbh  and  his  wife  Fionnuala,  the  daughter  of  Conor-na^sron 
O'Brien  of  Thomond.  It  was  dedicated  by  them  to  God  for 
the  benefit  of  their  souls,  and  for  the  purpose  of  forming  a 
burial  place  for  themselves  and  their  posterity. 

In  1483  '  a  great  alliance  was  formed  between  Hugh  roe 
O'Donnell  and  O'Neill,  the  former  collected  all  the  force  of 
Tyrconnell  and  of  North  Connaught,  and  ONeill  with  aU  his 
joining,  they  proceeded  in  battle  array  to  Traghbally  of 
Dundalk,  which  they  plundered  as  well  as  the  surrounding 


*  Armak  Four  AHagteri. 


188  KING  JAMES'S  HUSH  ABMT  LIST. 

ooimtxy.  The  Earl  of  Ealdare,  Lord  Jostioef  went  in  pnnuit 
with  a  great  army  of  the  English  and  overtook  them,  but 
thej  were  defeated  vriih  great  loss ;  on  O'Donnell'a  side,  Mao 
Qoilkn  and  the  son  of  Torlogh  Cairach  O'Conor  were  killed. 
O'Donnell  afterwards  maidied  to  Louth,  where  he  received 
presents  and  payments  from  the  inhabitants  fi»r  protecting  and 
sparing  their  town«  Thence,  returning  through  Tyrone,  he 
spoiled  and  burned  the  country,  in  every  direction,  through 
which  he  passed,  until  he  arrived  at  the  great  river  {sembU 
the  BladkWater)i  Hia  forces  cut  and  cleared  their  way 
through  very  dense  and  impassable  woods,  which  were  along 
the  banks  of  that  river,  so  as  to  make  an  easy  pass  for  his 
forces;. he  then  (Commanded  his  men  to  oonstroct  strong 
wooden  bridges  serosa  the  river,  by  which  the  whole  of  his 
forces,  both  horse  and  foot,  crossed  the  stream,  without  dither 
a  man  or  horse  being  drowned ;  after  which  they  let  the 
bridge  down  the  stream,  and  their  enemies  could  do  nothing 
but  behold  them  from  the  opposite  side«  0*Donnell  then 
returned  home  with  triumph  and  victory.*  Jn  twelve  years 
after.  Con,  son  of  the  above  mentioned  '  Hugh  roe  O'Donnell 
laid  siege  to  Sligo,  which  Owen  O'Conor  with  the  dans  of 
M'Dermott  and  M'Donough  sought  to  relieve,  but  O'Donnell, 
aided  by  Owen  O'Buarc,  Tanist  of  Brefiiey,  confronted  him 
at  Ballysadare,  when  at  the  very  commencement  c^  the  action, 
the  O'Donnell  (Hugh  roe),  who  had  just  returned  from 
Scotland,  remaining  but  a  night  at  his  fortress  of  Donegal, 
proceeded  to  ud  his  son,  and  his  presence  secured  the  victory.* 
In  1494  Hugh  O'Donnell,  the  recognised  Prince  of 
Tyrconnel,  was  recdved  with  great  honour  by  James  the 
Fourth  of  Scotland,  at  Glasgow;*  and  Pinkerton,  in  his 

*  Can^.  Thes.  Sootue* 


r 


fiABL  OT  AinPRIM'S  IKTAKTBT.  189 

Scotland^  mentions  a  correspondence  between  those  indivi- 
duala  as  extant.  In  1499  this  Hugh  'went  on  amicable 
terms  towards  the  English,  to  paj  a  visit  to  the  King  of 
Engknd*8  representaliye,'  after  which  he  led  a  hostile  expedi- 
tion into  Mojlnrg,  and  compelled  the  M'Dermott  to  restore 
to  his  custody  the  celebrated  cathaUf  containing  the  psalter  of 
Columbldlle,  with  much  prej,  property,  and  tribute.  Soon 
afterwards  he  joined  the  Lord  Justice  in  that  attack  on  Clan- 
ricard  which  led  to  the  battle  and  their  victory  at  Knocktow. 
He  died  in  1505  at  the  advanced  age  of  78,  and  was  buried  in 
the  Monastery  of  Donegal.  In  the  early  part  of  that  year  he 
had  gone  on  a  pilgrimage  to  Rome,  going  and  returning 
through  London,  where  he  was  on  both  occasions  entertained 
with  great  honour  by  King  Henry  the  Seventh. 

At  the  justs,  with  Eling.  Henry  the  Eighth,  held  in  1511 
at  Westminster,  in  honour  of  the  birth  of  a  Prince,  Hugh 
dubh,  the  son  of.  Hugh  roe  O'Donnell  received  the  honour  of 
Knighthood;  yet  this  monarch  is  shown  soon  after  to  have 
taken  tUnbrage  at  the  friendly  intercourse  which  was  main- 
tained between  the  0*Donnells  and  the  Kings  of  Scotland.^ 
Nor  would  such  jealousy  seem  wholly  groundless,  as,  accord- 
ing to  the  Masters,  this  Hugh  dtibhj  also  on  the  invitation  of 
the  King  of  Scotland,  '  sailed  for  that  country  with  some 
attendants,  and,  having  arrived  there,  received  great  honours 
and  presents  from  the  King.  Having  remained  there  with 
him,  he  advised  the  King  not  to  come  to  Ireland,  as  he 
Intended^  and  O'Donnell  returned  home,  aftier  having  en* 
countered  great  perils  at  sea.*  In  1516  the  Castle  oi  Sligo  wafir 
taken  by  him,  under  interesting  circumstances,  detailed  by  the 
Masters,  who  commemorate  with  glowing  eulogy  his  death 

*  EW9  Letters^  ^d  ser.,  vol  1,  p.  224. 


190  KINO  JAMBS'S  IBISH  ABMT  L18T. 

in  the  monasteiy  of  Donegal,  *  having  previously  taken  upon 
him  the  habit  of  St.  Francis,  repented  his  transgressions  and 
faults,  and  done  penance  for  his  sins  and  the  fnulties  of  his  life ; 
and  he  was  buried  in  the  same  monastery  with  great  honour 
and  solemnity,  which  were  his  due.  A  man  to  whom  rents 
and  tributes  had  been  paid  by  other  territories,  over  which  he 
had  jurisdiction  and  power,  such  as  Moylurg,  Maghera- 
Connaught,  Clan-Conway  (in  Gralway),  Costello-Gallen, 
Tyrawley  and  Conmaicne-Cuile  (in  Mayo),  as  well  as  in  East 
O'Cahane's  County  (Derry),  the  Boutes  and  Claneboy/ 

In  1529  Boderic  O'Donnel  was  Bishop  of  Derry.  In 
three  years  after,  O^Donnel  covenanted  with  Sir  William 
Skeffington  that,  if  the  King  wished  to  reform  Ireland,  of 
which  it  would  seem  the  Irish  chief  entertained  some  doubt, 
he  and  his  people  would  gladly  be  governed  by  the  laws  of 
England.*  In  1537  Manw,  son  of  the  above  Hugh  dubh 
O'Donnell,  succeeded  to  the  Chiefiy,  Dr,  O'Donovan,  in  his 
memoir  before  alluded  to,  says  that  this  Manns  married  four 
times,  and  had  by  two  of  these  wives  a  numerous  issue.  In 
1567  Hugh  O'Donnell  was  knighted  by  Sir  Henry  Sydney; 
in  the  following  year  he  became  chief  of  his  Sept,  and  was 
£either  of  Hugh  roe  0*Donnel,  who  was  treacherously  carried 
off  from  Donegal  in  the  time  of  Sir  John  Perrot's  goyem- 
ment,  and,  to  the  discredit  and  injury  of  the  English  interest, 
was  confined  in  the  Castle  of  Dublin,  whence  he  twice  made 
his  escape.  On  the  last  occasion,  he  kindled  a  war  in  his 
native  territory,  which  expelled  the  English  from  the  Castle 
of  Denial,  and  regained  his  whole  country  from  them,  with 
such  acts  of  implacable  hostility  as  the  recollection  of  his 
own  suffering  stimulated.    He  was  in  truth  an  extraordinaiy 


•  J)aini^9  Hia  BeL,  p.  52. 


EASL  OF  AKTBm'S  Iin?*ANTBY.  191 

xDan,  of  talents,  courage,  literary  acquirements,  and  personal 
attractions  that  projected  him  to  the  admiration  of  his  age. 
Betham,  in  the  first  part  of  his  Antiquarian  Researches^ 
furnishes  very  fully,  from  an  Irish  manuscript,  his  history 
and  achievements.  In  1601,  with  the  flower  and  strength  of 
Ulster,  he  flew  to  co-operate  with  the  Spaniards  in  the  siege 
of  Eansale,  but  was  obliged  to  give  up  the  cause  by  the 
precipitancy  of  the  Spanish  commander.  The  result  is 
touchingly  narrated  by  the  Four  Masters : 

''  After  the  Irish  and  the  small  party  of  the  Spaniards,  who 
were  along  with  them  at  that  time,  of  the  King  of  Spain's 
people,  had  been  defeated  by  the  English  at  Kinsale,  0*Don- 
nell,  Le,^  Hugh  roe,  was  seized  with  great  anger  and  anguish 
of  mind,  and  could  not  repose  for  the  space  of  three  days  and 
three  nights  afterwards,  so  that  he  despaired  of  relief:  and 
the  resolution  he  came  to  at  the  end  of  that  time,  tiirough  the 
recommendation  of  O'Neill,  though  he  advised  it  with  reluc- 
tance, was  to  depart  from  Ireland  and  go  to  Spain,  to  King 
Philip  the  Third,  to  request  more  forces  and  succour  firom 
him;  for  he  was  of  opinion  that  the  King  of  Spain  was  the 
most  likely  person  to  relieve  him,  and  likewise  the  most 
disposed  to  aid  all  those  who  fought  on  behalf  of  the  Boman 
Catholie  religion;  and  moreover,  on  account  of  his  alliance 
with  the  Irish,  from  their  having  origixiaUy  come  fi*om  Spain 
to  invade  Ireland,  as  recorded  in  the  book  called  '  the  Booh  of 
Invasions'  Having  determined  on  that  resolution,  the  persons 
he  selected  to  accompany  him  were  Bedmond,  the  son  of  John 
Burke,  Captain  Hugh  Mostyn  son  of  Bobert;  Flahery  son 
of  Fithil  O'Maolconry,  a  worthy  Father  of  the  Order  of  St- 
Francis,  and  some  others  of  his  own  faithful  friends.  When 
that  resolution  was  made  known  to  all  in  general,  most 
mournful  and  melancholy  were  tine  clapping  of  hands,  the 


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192  KIKO  JAMES'S  IBI8H  ABKT  LIST. 

ezoessive  sorrowful  weejnng  and  the  load  lamentotioiis  and 
vailings,  which  preyailed  throughout  0'Donnell*8  oamp ;  and 
they  had  cause,  for  they  did  not  ever  again  behold  their  leader 
and  Lord  of  their  country,  to  rule  over  themas  Prince  in  the 
island  of  Eire.  He  took  shipping  at  Casilehaven,  and,  after 
a  voyage  of  eight  days,  debarked  at  Comnna,  where  was  the 
Tower  of  Breogan,  whence  the  sons  of  Milesius  had  made 
their  expedition  against  Ireland.  O'Donnell  conridered  his 
being  landed  there  a  &yoarable  omen,  and  made  a  sol^am 
Tisit  to  the  Tower,  after  which  he  proceeded  to  the  King, 
who  was  then  at  Zamora  in  Casljle.  His  mission  was  not 
however  successful.  He  died  in  1602,  and  was  bnried  with 
great  magnificence  at  Valkdolid.  The  mdependence,  which 
the  Irish  chieftains  so  long  upheld  in  Ulster  was  closed  in 
1606,  when  a  vessel,  entering  Lough  SwiSy,  carried  off 
thence  the  Eari  O'Neill  with  his  Countess,  namely  Catherine, 
daughter  of  Magennis,  her  three  sons  Hugh  the  Baron,  John 
and  Bryan;  Art  oge^  son  of  Cormac,  son  of  the  Baron; 
Ferdorcha,  son  of  Con,  son  of  O'Neill ;  Hugh  oge^  son  of 
Bryan,  son  of  Art  0*N^ ;  the  Eari  O'Donnell,  U.,  Bory 
the  son  of  Hugh  roej  deceased,  with  Cathbar  his  brother,  his 
sister  Nuala,  and  his  son  Hugh,  who  wanted  three  weeks  of 
being  a  year  old;  also  Cathbar's  wife,  Bose,  daughter  of  the 
O'Doherty,  and  their  son  Hugh,  aged  two  years  and  a  quarter, 
tc^ether  with  a  great  number  of  his  faithful  friends.  .  .  . 
It  was  on  the  festival  of  the  Cross  that  they  embarked,  a 
distinguished  company;  for  it  is  most  certain  that  the  sea  has 
not  borne  n(x  the  wind  wafted  from  Ireland  in  the  latter 
times,  &  party  in  any  one  ^p,  more  ennnent,  illustrious,  and 
BoUe  than  they  were  in  point  of  genealogy,  or  more  dis- 
tinguished for  great  deeds  and  valorous  adiievements,  and 
would  that  Qod  had  granted  them  to  remain  in  thdlr  patri-^ 


EARL  OF  ANTRIM'S  INFANTRY.  193 

monies,  imtil  their  youths  should  arriye  at  the  age  of  manhood. 
Woe  to  the  heart  that  meditated,  woe  to  the  mind  that 
planned,  woe  to  the  council  that  determined  on  the  project, 
which  caused  the  party,  who  went  on  that  voyage,  to  depart, 
while  they  had  no  prospect  to  the  end  of  their  lives  of 
returning  safe  to  their  hereditary  estates/*  Leland  says  that 
Hugh  roe,  on  his  retirement  to  Spain,  was  in  that  country 
every  where  received  '  with  all  that  pomp  and  magnificence, 
which  is  paid  to  blood  Royal  only.'  The  expatriation  of 
those  once  powerful  dynasts  of  Northern  Ireland  left  the 
most  valuable  part  of  Ulster,  upwards  of  800,000  English 
acres,  at  the  disposal  of  the  Crown,  which  exercised  its  power 
in  the  memorable  Plantation  of  that  Province. 

King  James,  early  in  his  reign,  granted  to  Boderic  0*Don- 
nell,  *  brother  to  the  arch-traitor  Hugh  O'Donnell,  lately 
deceased  in  Spain,'  the  title  and  dignity  of  Earl  of  Tyrconnel, 
with  remainder  to  his  heirs  male ;  and,  in  defect  thereof,  to  his 
brother  Gralfred  or  Cafiry  O'Donnell  and  his  heirs  male,  with 
the  title  of  Baron  of  Donegal  to  his  heir  apparent;  making, 
at  the  same  time,  a  more  substantial  grant  to  him,  on  like 
entails,  of  the  territories  or  countries  in  the  precinct  of 
Tyrconnel,  in  as  large  and  ample  manner  as  his  brother 
Hugh  math  O'Donnell,  attainted,  and  dead  in  Spain,  or  his 
father  Hugh  Mc  Manus  O'Donnell,  or  his  grandfather  Manus 
Mc  Donnell,  or  any  other  of  his  ancestors  had  enjoyed  or 
possessed  the  same;  reserving  to  the  Crown  all  churches, 
abbeys,  tithes,  and  certain  castles ;  also  excepting  all  manors, 
lands,  and  estates  which  the  Earl  or  any  of  his  ancestors  at 
any  time  possessed  within  O'Doghertie's  country,  and  reserving 
also  to  the  Crown  the  power  of  erecting  forts  on  the  premises 
80  granted.* 

*Rot.  PaL  1,  Jae,  1,  in  Cane.  Hib. 
VOL.  11.  O 


194  KIKG  JAMES'S  IRISH  ABHT  LIST. 

The  Act  of  1612,  for  the  attainder  of  the  Earl  of  Tyrone 
and  his  *  accomplices,'  included  in  its  desolating  penalties  the 
above  Cafiiy  O'Donel,  brother  to  the  then  late  Earl  of 
Tyrconnell,  of  Caffersoonse,  County  of  Donegal;  Cafiiy  oge 
O'Donel  of  Strafollis,  and  Donell  oge  0*Donel,  late  of  Donegal 
in  said  County.  It  is  however  recorded  that,  in  1628,  Cafiiy, 
son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Gilladuff  O'Donnell,  died  seised  of  part 
of  Outerglyny  in  Donegal,  Turlough,  his  son  and  heir,  being 
then  of  full  age  and  married.  Some  few  years  previously  a 
pension  of  £400  per  annum  had  been  assigned  to  the  Countess, 
wife  of  the  late  Earl  of  Tyrconnel,  on  which  is  retained, 
in  AyeeougKa  Catalogue^  the  comment,  'This  amiuity  was 
granted  in  lieu  of  her  jointure,  which  was  of  much  more 
value.  By  her  patent  she  should  have  been  paid  out  of  the 
customs ;  she  hath  got  no  payment  for  some  time,  but  hath 
often  petitioned  for  it.  This  pension  is  all  her  maintenance.' 
The  Kilkenny  Assembly  of  the  Confederate  Catholics  in 
1646  was  attended  by  Hugh  O'Donnell  of  Ramelton.  In 
1655  died  John  O'Donnell,  an  officer  in  foreign  service, 
considered  the  head  of  the  family  in  his  time ;  he  was  father 
of  Hugh  the  celebrated  Balldearg  hereafter  alluded  to. 

Of  this  Sept  was  Daniel  O'Donnell,  who,  in  December, 
1688,  was  appointed  Captidn  of  a  Company  in  the  Boyal 
service,  and  in  1689  was  authorised  to  rank  and  act  as  a 
Colonel.  After  the  capitulation  of  Limerick,  he  passed  over 
to  France,  where  he  succeeded  Colonel  Nicholas  Fitz-Gerald 
in  the  command  of  his  Ke^ment.  He  served  with  this  corps 
in  France,  Germany,  Italy,  and  Flanders,  and,  having  attained 
the  rank  of  Brigadier,  retired  to  St.  6ermains-en>Laye,  where 
he  died  in  1735,  in  the  seventieth  year  of  his  age.* 

*  CCaOaghanU  IrUik  Brigades^  toL  1,  p.  221. 


wmmmmmmam 


EABL  OF  AKTBIM*S  XSTBSSTKT:  195 

The  achieyements  of  Brigadier  Balldearg  ruadh  O'Donnell 
in  this  war  are  of  peculiar  interest.  The  Irish,  pladng  fiuth 
in  an  ancient  prophecy,  were  willing  to  believe  that  he  would 
deliver  their  country  firom  the  English  yoke.  "He  was/' 
(writes  Colonel  O'Kelly  in  the  Exddiwn  Macaruxy  pp.  125-6, 
&c.)  "  heir  presumptive  to  the  second  Prince  of  Ulster,  that 
O'Donnell  who,  at  the  dose  of  Queen  Elizabeth's  reign, 
retired  into  Spain,  where  he  died  without  issue.  His  brother 
also  died  there,  but  leaving  one  son,  who  was  carried  off 
by  nckness  in  the  flower  of  his  age ;  whereupon  Balldearg, 
being  next  of  kin,  went  into  Spain,  where  he  was  received 
with  honour  by  the  King,  and  established  in  the  dignity  and 
employment  theretofore  filled  by  his  kinsman.  It  was  at  this 
time  that  he  made  his  will,  full  particulars  of  which  have 
been  kindly  communicated  by  Dr^O'Donovan,  in  translation,  t 
It  was  executed  at  Madrid,  on  the  9th  April,  1674;  and  he 
thereby  appointed  his  broths  Connell,  heir  to  his  House  and 
property,  with'  remainder  to  Ins  issue  male,  remainders  to 
Dominick,  Hugh,  John,  Neill,  Michael,  and  Daniel  O'Donell 
successively  in  tail  mail;  and,  in  fiulure  of  all  their  such  issue, 
to  Manus  O'Donell  and  the  hdrs  male  of  his  body ;  failing  r^ 
which,  to  whoever  can  prove  himself  to  be  the  next  heir  male 
to  the  testator,  and  in  definilt  of  all  these,  he  desired  that  his 
fortune  should  be  applied  to  found  a  Jesxdt  Convent  in  Spain 

for  Irish  students. ^Of  this  testament  Balldearg  appointed 

the  then  Catholic  Primate,  Dr.  Oliver  Plunket,  the  Earl  of 

Tyrone,  his  own  brother  (said  Connell),  and  two  others,  j^/ .^{^  ;>4^ 

Executors.    In  this  instrument  the  Testator  styled  himself 

'Hugh  O'Ponnel,  Earl  of  Tyrconnel,  (bom  in  Donegal  in 

Ireland,  and  lawful  son  respectively  of  the  late  John  QlPonnel      1 

and  Catherine  O'Bourke  his  lawfiil  wife),  now  being  in  this 

capital  (Madrid)  and  about,  as  Captain  of  Cavahy  in  the 

service  of  His  Majesty,  to  set  out  for  Catalonia,'  &c.,  &c.  ^         ^ 


196  KISG  JAMES'S  IBI8H  ABMT  LIST. 

After  serving  several  years  in  the  Spanish  wars  against 
France,  when  he  heard  of  the  Prince  of  Orange's  invasion  of 
England,  and  James's  return  to  Ireland,  he  solicited  fiom  the 
Spanish  court  permission  to  quit  service  there,  in  order  to 
serve  his  own  King  and  country ;  but,  being  unable  to  obtain 
his  discharge,  by  reason  that  the  Irish  and  thdr  Ejng  were 
then  strictly  leagued  with  Louis  the  Fourteenth,  he  left  Spain 
without  any  license,  and  arrived  at  Kinsale  after  the  engage- 
ment on  the  Boyne.  The  King  recommending  him  to 
Tyrconnel,  he  gave  him  the  command  of  the  new  levies 
raised  by  the  inhabitants  of  Ulster,  who  were  then 
retired  into  Connaught;  but  afforded  him  ndther  arms  nor 
maintenance ;  and,  observing  soon  after  that  O'Donnel  grew 
popular  among  the  old  Irish,  and  especially  with  the  natives 
of  Ulster,  who  superstitiously  believed  him  to  be  the  pro- 
phesied deliverer  of  Ireland,  he  took  from  him  some  of  the 
new  legions,  whom  he  incorporated  in  the  standing  army, 
leaving  him  and  the  rest  without  any  manner  of  subsistence, 
but  what  they  were  forced  to  extort  firom  the  country.  He 
also  encouraged  the  nobles  of  Ulster,  and  even  the  officers 
of  his  own  Brigade  to  oppose  him,  in  order  to  suppress  his 
aspiring  mind,  and  render  him  contemptible  to  the  people; 
but  his  chiefest  aim  was  to  breed  jealousies  between  him  and 
Brigadier  Gh)rdon  O'N^,  who  was  descended  firom  the  first 
Prince  of  Ulster;  for  he  apprehended  (and  perhaps  he  had 
reason)  that  if  the  forces  of  Ulster,  all  composed  of  old  Irish, 
were  united  together,  they  might  easily  obstruct  his  dedgn 
to  reduce  Ireland  under  the  jurisdiction  of  William  the 
Thirds  in  order  to  preserve  there  the  English  interest,  which 
is  held  so  sacred  by  those  of  England,  and  even  by  some 
natives  of  Ireland  deriving  their  extraction  thence  (whereof 
Tyrconnel  was  himself  one).      O'Donnel  was  at  that  time 


I     \i3     Ll.  iLiBiiiljUl    LI l"^JWIJ_-i'  '  ■ilii'.wwiiiwiiwiMillMllll  ^11 .1  W,  I.I  im.ll    I  !±  L'JLli      ._    IJ'  Ulll"Wf  J"  I  "f 

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EABL  OF  Antrim's  enpantet.  197 

posted  at  Jamestown,  to  defend  the  Shannon  on  that  side ; 
and,  when  De  Grinkell  forced  over  a  passage  at  Athlone, 
he  had  orders  sent  to  him  in  all  haste  to  march  straight  to 
Gralwaj ;  but,  to  satisfy  Tyrconnel  and  those  of  his  party, 
who  loudly  declared  that  to  entrust  a  person,  of  his  credit 
among  the  andent  Irish,  with  a  place  of  that  consequence, 
was  in  effect  to  abrogate  the  Boyal  authority  in  Ireland;  the 
first  orders  were  coimtermanded,  and  he  was  bid  to  dispose 
of  his  men  into  several  posts  for  the  defence  of  the  western 
parts  of  Connaught." 

After  the  &tal  day  of  Aughrim,  Balldearg  was  ordered 
to  gather  in  his  scattered  force  with  the  object  of  stiiengthen- 
ing  Gfalway.  The  enemy,  however,  had  taken  measures  to 
prevent  his  throwing  succour  into  that  town.  Its  surrender 
dedded  BaDdearg's  course,  and  in  August,  1691,  he,  accord- 
ing to  Story,*  negotiated  with  De  Ginkell's  agent  to  go  over 
to  the  cause  of  King  William,  provided  he  might  have  the 
men,  he  brought  over  with  him,  admitted  to  pay,  in  order 
to  serve  his  Majesty  in  Flanders  or  dsewhere,  and  that  him- 
self should  be  created  Earl  of  Tyrconnel,  a  title  to  which 
he  claimed  an  ancestral  right;  he  likewise  required  that 
£2,000  should  be  given  to  him.  '*  The  Greneial,"  adds  Story, 
'*  thought  it  politic  to  consent  to  some  of  O'DonneFs  pro- 
positions, and  firom  the  following  Christmas  he  and  Colonel 
Henry  Luttrel  received  each  a  yearly  pension  of  £500.  Of 
his  doings  in  September,  1691,  in  the  country  between  Sligo 
and  Boyle,  see  the  Annals  of  Boyle,  vol.  1.  Ultimately, 
"  with  about  1200  of  his  own  men,  he  joined  800  of  the 
WUliamite  Ulster  forces,  and  then  joined  Lieutenant-General 
Arthur  Forbes,  Earl  of  Granard,  with  5,000  more  Williamite 

*  Story's  ImparL  Hut  pt  XL,  p.  182. 


198  KING  JAMES'S  IBISH  ABHT  LIST. 

militia  and  a  tndn  of  artillery  from  Leinster,  that  were  com- 
missioned to  reduce  Sir  Teague  O'Begaa  in  Sligo/'*  The 
Memoirs  of  James  the  Second  speak  very  dispara^gly  of 
Balldearg,  as  that  '^  he  had  set  up  for  a  sort  of  independent 
commander;  and,  having  got  together  no  less  than  eight 
Begiments  newly  raised,  with  a  crowd  of  loose  men  over 
and  above,  he  lived  in  a  manner  at  discretion,  so  that  those 
troops  were  in  effect  but  a  rabble,  that  destroyed  the  country, 
ruined  the  inhabitants,  and  prevented  the  regular  forces  from 
drawing  that  subsistence,  they  might  othemise  have  had 
from  the  people.'^  A  very  intelligent  antiquarian,  who  has 
devoted  much  attention  to  such  manuscript  evidences  relating 
to  Ireland,  as  he  could  discover  on  the  Continent,  considers 
/X  that  the  conduct  of  Balldearg  in  this  war  has  been  much 
misrepresented.  He  writes  that  sometime  after  the  capitula- 
tion of  Limerick,  Balldearg  retired  to  Spain,  and  joining 
the  Spanish  army  in  Piedmont  in  1692,  served  three  years 
therein  ;  when  returning  to  Madrid  he  was  appointed  a 
,  Spanish  Major-General  in  1695.  He  was  living  in  1703, 
about  which  time  he  died  without  issue.  Connell,  the 
aforesaid  brother  of  Balldearg,  was  ancestor  of  the  O'Donnells 
of  Larkfidd  and  Greyfield. 

At  the  battle  of  Aughrim,  a  Major  O'Donnell  was  killed. 
The  Attainders  of  1691  present  the  names  of  Andrew  and 
Thomas  O'Donnell  of  Maheraneawley,  and  James  Donnell 
of  Ballynehinny  in  Armagh  ;  the  above  Manus,  described 
as  of  Boylagh  in  Donegal,  Esq. ;  Cafl^,  Hugh,  Turlough, 
and  Eugene  of  the  same  locality;  Daniel  oge  of  Castlelaven, 
with  Cormack  and  Bryan  O'Donnell  of  Forhugh,  all  ixk 

^  C^CkJhghmCs  Bhcddkan  Macark^  p.  14,  &c. 
t  Clark^s  James  IL^  voL  2,  p.  434.      ^ 


EABL  OF  ANTBIM'S  INFANTBT.  199 

Don^al.    The  Captain  Manus  here  under  consideration  was 
the  grandson  of  another  Manus,  who  was  a  Colonel  in  the 
army  of  the  Confederate  Catholics  under  Owen  Boe  O'Neill. 
Thia  Captain  married  a  daughter  of  Maguire  of  Tempo,  by 
whom  he  had  issue  three  sons,  Charles,  Manus,  and  Hugh. 
His  will  was  proved  in  the  diocese  of  Tuam  in  1737,  but  it 
cannot  now  be  found.    Charles  O'Connor  in  his  ^  IHe8ertation8 
on  the  Arudent  HUtory  of  Ireland^  published  in  1753,  says, 
these  three  sons  of  Manus  were  all  then  living  and  *•  worthy  of 
such  a  parent  and  of  such  ancestors.'    Charles  the  eldest  of 
this  issue  died  in  1770,  leaving  three  sons.    Hu  eldest  son, 
Manus,  bom  in  1713,  entered  the  Austrian  service  at  an 
early  age,  as  Dr.  O'Donovan  relates,  and  was  created  a  Count 
by  the  Empress  Maria  Theresa.     He  died  in  1793  at  the  age 
of  80,  as  appears  by  the  family  tomb  at  Straid  Abbey  in 
Mayo,  leaving  by  his  wife  only  one  daughter.      Con,  the 
second  son  of  the  above  Charles,  died  unmarried.    Le¥nis,  the 
third  son,  also  engaged  in  the  Austrian  service,  but  having 
married  in  the  County  of  Mayo,  he  died  there,  leaving  three 
sons,  the  youngest  of  whom,  Lewis,  according  to  Dr.  ODono- 
van,  succeeded  to  his  father's  property  on  the  deaths  of  the 
two  elder  without  issue.     He  died  and  was  buried  at  Ostend 
in  1841,  leaving  issue  one  son,  Charles,*and  three  daughters. 
Manus  the  second  son  of  the  officer  whose  name  heads  this 
notice  died  in  1797,  without  male  issue.     Hugh,  his  third 
and  youngest  son,  styled  of  Newport,  having  married  Miss 
Browne  of  Brownestown,  had  issue  by  her  five  sons  and 
three  daughters.     Of  those  sons  four  died  unmarried.    Neal, 
who  was  the  third  son,  was  created  a  Baronet  in  1780;  and, 
dying  in  1811,  left  Sir  Neal,  his  eldest  surviving  son,  third 
Baronet,  from  whom  the  honour  has  descended  to  the  present ; 
Sir  Richard  Annesley  O'Donnell. 


200  EIKG  JAHES'S  IBISH  ABHT  LIST. 

Dr.  O'Donovan  has,  in  an  appendix  to  his  Edition  of  the 
Four  Masters,  drawn  up  forty-four  pages  exclusively  illus- 
trating, by  most  valuable  details,  the  special  branchy  of  this 
noble  house,  as  well  in  Ireland  as  in  Spain  and  Austria;  and 
£rom  its  authority  much  of  this  O'Donnell  memoir  has  been 
derived.  MATimilian  Count  O'Donnell,  of  Vienna,  is  con- 
sidered the  present  head  of  the  Austrian  O'Donnells. 


CAPTAIN  ARTHUR  MAGILL. 

This  seems  to  have  been  one  of  the  fiunilies  introduced  into 
Ulster  by  the  Plantation.  In  1642  was  attainted  John 
Magill,  described  in  his  outlawry  as  of  Naptown,  County  of 
Dublin ;  he  was,  however,  a  conaideiable  landed  proprietor  in 
Down,  and,  on  the  holding  of  the  Commisdon  respecting  the 
confiscations  of  that  period,  was  adjudged  an  *  innocent  Pro- 
testant.* In  1660  he  was  Sheri£P  of  that  County,  and,  as 
relied  upon  in  his  petition  to  tiie  Irish  House  of  Conmions  in 
1665,  he  had'  relieved  several  of  his  Majesty's  Officers  and 
good  subjects,  while  he  alleged  that  he  was  of  English  extrac- 
tion, a  Protestant  from  his  youtii,  and  always  opposed  to  the 
*  rebels'  in  Ireland.  His  innocence  was  tiiereupon  fully 
recognised  by  the  House;  and,  in  tiie  following  year,  he 
obtained  a  confirmatory  grant  of  various  lands  in  Down, 
subject  to  certain  existing  leases  and  mortgages;  and  soon 
after  a  more  foil  and  disencumbered  titie  to  7,113  acres  in 
that  county  (which,  having  descended  to  his  grandson  John 
Ma^ll,  were  created  the  Manor  of  Gill-ford) ;  he  was  attainted 
in  King  James's  Parliament  of  1689,  but,  as  that  denunciation 
was  ineffective,  his  descendants  continued  to  inherit  his  estate 


EASL  OF  ANTBIM'S  XSFAJXTRY.  201 

to  the  time  of  Queen  Anne,  and  the  name  is  yet  on  the  Roll 
of  Magistrates  in  three  or  four  Ulster  Counties.  In  1667 
Captains  Hugh  and  James  MacGill  had  confirmatory  patents 
of  lands  in  Wicklow  and  Longford,  as  trustees  for  the  (1649) 
officers.  On  the  attainders  of  1691,  this  Arthur  Magill  is 
styled  of  the  City  of  Dublin,  Esq.,  and  also  of  Cameidlanagh 

in  Antrim.     In  Colonel  Cormuck  O'Neill's  In&ntry, 

Magill  was  an  Ensign. 


CAPTAIN  VAUGHAN. 

Of  this  surname,  three,  John,  Cormuck,  and  Connor  Yaughan, 
described  as  of  Callebeg,  County  Cork,  were  attainted  in 
1643 ;  while  in  1696  Charles  Yaughan  of  Moneyvansheare, 
in  said  county,  was  outlawed,  together  with  Edward  Yaughan 
of  Gralway,  and  Thomas  of  the  same  place,  merchant.  On  the 
roll  of  those  who  had  adjudications  as  of  the  *  1649'  Officers, 
appear  the  names  of  Captains  Henry,  James,  and  Thomas 
Yaughan. 


LIEUTENANT  SEXTON. 

PiEBCE  Sexton  of  Ballynedogh  and  Bobert  Sexton  of  Bally- 
golleroe,  in  Kildare,  were  attainted  in  1642,  as  was  Patrick 
Sexton,  styled  of  Kilbride,  in  Wexford,  in  1691,  most 
probably  the  above  officer.  The  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland 
from  the  fourteenth  century.  At  a  later  period  it  was  chiefly 
located  in  Limerick;  where,  in  1640,  Christopher  Sexton 
had  livery  of  premises,  as  brother  and  heir  of  Nicholas  Sexton 

(see  also  ante  vol.  1,  p.  166). Captain  Bandolph  '  Sexton* 

was  one  of  the  '  1649 '  Officers. 


uw*— — e—p»i— gat—ihMfcMi*  i         -f  .1— i^Ma 


202  KING  James's  ibish  abmt  list. 


ENSIGN  CON  O'BOURKE. 

The  earliest  Irish  Annalists  record  the  high  antiquity  of  this 
Sept,  giving  them  the  title  of  Elings  of  West  Brefnej,  a  terri- 
tory which,  in  modem  parlance,  comprised  the  whole  County 
of  Leitrim,  with  the  Barony  of  Tullaghagh,  County  of  Cavan, 
and  a  portion  of  that  of  Carbury,  County  of  Sligo;  the  same 
authority  sets  down  some  of  the  race  as  Kings  of  Connaught 
on  the  first  use  of  the  surname.  Tieman  O'Bourke  was  King 
of  Brefhey  and  Conmacne  at  the  time  of  the  English  invasion, 
an  event  which  is  popularly  attributed  to  the  seduction  of  his 
wife  by  Dermot  Mac  Murrough.  His  death  is  thus  recorded 
by  the  Pour  Masters  at  1172,  *  Tieman  O'Rourke,  Lord  of 
Brefney  and  Conmacne,  for  a  long  time  a  very  powerful 
chieftain,  was  treacherously  slain  at  Tlachgoe  (near  Athboy), 
by  Hugh  de  Lacy  and  Donal,  son  of  Annadh  O'Bourke,  one 
of  his  own  tribe.  He  was  beheaded  and  ignominiously  carried 
to  Dublin;  his  head  was  placed  over  the  town  gate,  and  his 
body  was  gibbeted,  with  his  feet  upwards,  on  the  north  side 
of  the  city,  a  woeful  spectacle  to  the  Irish.'  His  wife,  the 
unfortunate  Dervorgilla,  died  in  1193,  at  the  Monastery  of 
Mellefont.  In  1376,  say  the  Masters,  died  Tdigue  O'Bourke, 
Lord  of  Bre&ey,  when  Tieman,  his  son,  assumed  the 
Lordship. 

In  1580,  according  to  the  same  authority,  '  The  O^Bourke, 
t.  e.  Bryan,  the  son  of  Bryan,  son  of  Owen,  having  resisted 
the  English  in  the  harvest  of  this  year,  Sir  Nicholas  Malby 
marched  to  attack  him;  0*Bourke  thereupon  sent  all  his 
women  and  people  over  Slieve-an-Erin,  and  demolished  the 
Castle  of  Leitrim,  before  the  coming  of  Sir  Nidiolas.    He 


EABL  OF  ANTRIM'S  INFANTBT.  203 

afterwards  burned  and  plundered  the  woody  district  between 
the  rivers  Suck  and  Shannon.  Nevertheless,  on  the  occasion 
of  Sir  John  Perrot's  Conciliation  Parliament,  *'  thither  went 
the  chief  of  Gbdrbhthrian  (t.  e.  the  rough  districts)  of  Con- 
naught,  namely  O'Bourke,  Captain  of  West  Breihey ,  t.  e.  the 
aforesaid  Bryan ; "  but  this  imfortunate  chief,  having  hospitably 
received  the  crew  of  some  of  the  Armada  vessels,  which  were 
cast  on  his  shores,  incurred  the  jealousy  of  Queen  Elizabeth, 
and  was  by  the  Lord  President  driven  into  Scotland,  where 
he  was  seized  by  the  government  there,  delivered  to  Elizabeth, 
and  afterwards  executed  in  London  as  a  traitor* 

Li  1604  Ejng  James  granted  to  Thadeus  or  Teigue 
CBourke,  '*  only  legitimate  son  of  Sir  Bryan  O'Bourke,*" 
various  Lordships  and  Manors  in  '^  0*Rourke*s  territory. 
County  of  Leitrim,'*  which  had  preyiously  belonged  to  Sir 
Bryan  O'Bourke,  and  which  had  been  by  him,  according  to 
the  policy  of  the  day,  surrendered  by  Sir  John  Perrot,  with 
the  object  of  obtaining  a  re-grant  thereof  in  tail  male.  King 
James's  grant  is  stated  to  comprise  166  quarters  of  land, 
with  castles,  manors,  advowsons,  &c.,  the  patentee  to  hold 
same  thenceforth  at  knight's  service  when  required,  and 
presenting  to  the  Lord  Deputy  yearly  at  Easter,  "a  fair 
chief  horse,  and  a  piece  of  gold  with  the  words  '  serviendo 
gvhemcf  engraved  thereon.'*  f  At  the  supreme  Council  of 
Kilkenny  in  1646,  Hugh  O'Bourke  of  Cooncrena  was  one 
of  the  Commons.  The  Act  of  Explanation  (1665)  sai^ 
the  rights  of  this  Ensign  Con  O'Bourke  to  his  estates  in  the 
County  of  Leitrim;  and  in  1680  Brian  O'Bourke  had  a 
confirmatoiy  grant  of  405  acres  in  Mayo. 

Besides  the  Officer  here    noticed   Bourke  was    a 

*  LdamSt  Ireland^  toL  2,  p.  322.    f  Pat.  RoU  in  Chancery^  temp.  Jas  1. 


204  KING  JAMSS'S  IBISH  ABBTT  LIST. 

Captain  in  Fitz-James's  Regiment  of  Infantry,  and  Midiael 
Rourke  an  Ensign  in  Colonel  Henry  Dillon's.  The  Attain- 
ders of  1696  comprise  the  names  of  Brian,  son  of  Frands 
O'Rourke  of  Ghdovrea,  Brian  oge  O'Bourke  of  Camegreve, 

Terence,  son  of  Brian  O'Boorke  of  Lallagh,  Bonrke, 

son  of  Con  O'Bourke,  and  Thady  and  John  O'Bourke  of 
Dungebb,  all  in  the  County  of  Leitrim. 

The  name  appears  frequently  distinguished  in  the  service 
of  foreign  Potentates  of  Europe;  as  in  Count  Owen  O'Bourke 
of  the  Austrian  army  in  the  time  of  Maria  Theresa;  Count 
John,*  a  commander  in  the  armies  of  Russia,  Poland,  and 
France,  between  the  years  1760  and  1780;  and  another 
Count  Owen,  who  was  married  to  a  neice  of  Field-Marshal 
deLacy. 

*  See  of  him,  TTafiberV  EHbemim  Mag,  fir  1782,  p.  144,  4kc. 


EABL  OF  TYBOKE*S  INFANTBT. 


205 


EEGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 


BICHABD,  EABL  OF  TYBOKE. 


Capiams, 

The  ColoneL 

Thomaa  Nugent, 
Lieat-ColoneL 

Bichard  Keagle, 
Uajor. 

James  Magrath. 
Edward  Butler. 

Joseph  Comerford. 
Valentiiie  Walsh. 

James  Power. 

Francis  Cndoe. 

Lord  CastleoosmeL 

John  Byrne. 

LordCahir. 

Piers  WaUh. 

Donumck  Feniter. 

Andrew  Bice. 

HnghM<Namaia, 
Granad. 

Edmimd  Fitzgerald. 

Nicfa<das  Stafford. 

Joseph  *Neagle.* 


{John  Power. 
Bichard  Fitzgerald. 

John  Power. 


>  David  Power. 
Garrett  BosselL 


>  James  Bryan.  Denis  Bryan. 

Lewis  Bryan.  Peter  Aylward. 

{ISSwtoSSr^  }jobn  Power. 

J«i<»P»rton.  {5S«^S?"^ 

AndrewBioe.  

John  Madden.  Thomas  Power. 

Kicholas  Mmphy.  Piers  Dohbins. 

Edmnnd  Fitcgerald.  William  CanolL 

JohnBonan.  

Michael  Mmphy. 

Thomas  Power.  Frands  Garvan. 

Bobert  Walsh.  Bobert  Barry. 

William  Walsh,  CA^pfain. 
—^  Comerford,  SurgwiL 


206  KINO  JAMESES  IBISH  ABHT  LIST. 


COLONEL  THE  EARL  OF  TYRONE. 

On  the  inyasion  of  Lreland  the  Earl,  commonly  styled 
'Strongbow/  conferred  upon  Robert  le  Poer  the  territory 
of  Waterford,  excepting  therefirom  the  City  and  the 
cantred  of  the  Ostmen,  or  Danes,*  whom  the  inyaders 
found  settled  there,  and  in  good  policy  encouraged  as 
merchants.  At  the  dose  of  the  thirteenth  centuiy,  when  the 
Earl  of  Desmond  refused  to  attend  a  parliamentary  summons, 
the  Lord  Deputy  raising  the  King*s  standard,  marched  into 
Munster,  seized  his  possessions  and  executed  Eustace  le  Poer, 
one  of  his  chief  adherents.f  Amongst  the  Irish  Magnates 
and  Captains  who,  in  1314,  accompanied  Edward  the  Second 
from  Ireknd  in  his  expedition  against  Scotland,  were  John 
le  Poer,  Arnold  le  Poer,  and  Peter  le  Poer,  Knight.  Li  1320 
Meyler  le  Poer  was  Bishop  of  Leighlin,  as  was  Robert  Poer, 
of  Waterford  and  Lismore  in  1446.  Li  1375  Nicholas  le 
Poer  was  summoned  to  Parliament  as  Baron  le  Poer,  as  he 
was  on  three  subsequent  occasions;  Richard  his  son  was 
created  Baron  of  Curraghmore.  Sir  Henry  Sydney  in 
reporting  his  inspection  of  the  Province  of  Munster  in  1575, 
writes  of  this  locality  and  its  Lord:  'The  day  I  departed 
from  Waterford,  I  lodged  that  night  at  Curraghmore,  the 
house  that  Lord  Power  is  baron  of;  where  I  was  so  used  and 
with  such  plenty  and  good  order  entertained  as  (adding  to  it 
the  quiet  of  all  the  country  adjoining,  by  the  people  called 
Power*s  country,  for  that  surname  has  been,  since  the  begin- 
ning of  the  Englishmens'  planting  inhabitants  there),  it  may 

*  Sir  John  DoMs  BisL  ReL,  p.  60.  f  l<lein,  p.  89. 


EARL  OF  TYRONE'S  INFANTBT.  207 

be  well  compared  with  the  best  inhabitants  of  the  English 
Pale.  And  the  lord  of  the  country,  though  he  be  of  scope 
of  ground,  a  far  less  territory  than  his  neighbour  is,  yet  he 
lives  in  show  &r  more  honorably  and  plentifully  than  he  or 
any  other,  whatsoever  he  be,  of  his  calling,  that  lives  in  this 
Province.'  This  nobleman  had  a  subsequent  grant  of  license 
to  hold  fairs  and  markets  at  Kilmacthomas ;  and  at  the  time 
of  his  death,  in  1607,  his  eldest  son  being  a  minor,  his 
wardship  was  committed  to  his  mother  Helen,  Countess  of 
Ormond.  In  1609  John,  son  and  heir  of  William  Power  of 
Tramore,  deceased,  had  livery  of  his  estate ;  as  had  William, 
son  and  heir  of  Peter  Power,  late  of  Elilballykilto.  In  1614 
King  James  granted  to  Sir  William  Power,  otherwise  le  Peer 
of  Ejlbolan,  and  to  the  Lady  Ellen  his  wife,  the  manor  of 
EHbolan,  with  markets,  fairs,  courts,  leet  and  baron,  with 
large  tracts  in  Cork,  Kerry,  and  Limerick  Counties ;  and  in 
1617  Walter,  son  and  heir  of  Ed.  Poer  of  Ballimelally, 
County  Waterford,  had  similar  livery  of  his  estate.  The 
attainders  of  1641  include  David,  the  son  of  John  Power 
described  as  ^of  Prowhus,  Edmond  edicts  Naghton  Power  of 
Dromenyne,  and  Robert  Power  of  Castletown,  all  in  the 
County  of  Cork.  The  Supreme  Council  of  Kilkenny  in 
1646  had  David  'Poer'  of  Clonmore  and  John  Power  of 
Kilmacdan  amongst  its  members.  Colonel  Milo  and  Major 
Soger  Power  appear  amongst  the  '1649'  recorded  OflScers, 
while  the  declaration  of  Boyal  gratitude  in  the  Act  of  Settle- 
ment particularly  notices  Mr.  David  'Powre'  of  Eilbolan, 
and  Captain  Edmund  Power  of  Inch,  County  of  Cork. 

In  1673  Richard,  the  above  Colonel,  and  lineal  male 
representative  of  the  Lords  of  Curraghmore,  was  created 
Viscount  of  Dedes  and  Earl  of  Tyrone.  At  the  close  of  the 
year  1681  however  he  incurred  the  fearful  suspicion  of  the 


208  KING  JAH£8'8  IIU8H  ABKT  LIST. 

English  Parliament,  as  one  connected  vdth  the  'horrid  Popish 
Plot,*  and  a  motion  was  made  in  the  Commons  that  he  be 
impeached  of  High  Treason  ;*  he  however  was  placed  in  1687 
on  the  establishment  for  a  pension  of  £300  per  anvum^ 
sat  in  the  Parliament  of  1689,  and  in  September  1690 
was  one  of  the  Irish  parties,  who  negotiated  the  terms  for 
surrendering  Cork  to  Colonel  Churchhill,t  subsequentlj 
Duke  of  Marlborongh.  He  died  soon  after,  as  did  John  the 
second  Earl,  in  1693  unmarried,  when  the  honours  devolved 
upon  his  brother  James,  who,  having  married,  died  in  1703, 
leaving  the  Lady  Catherine  Poer  his  heiress;  but  the  Earl- 
dom expired  with  him.  In  1711  Anne,  Countess  of  Tyrone, 
widow  of  Earl  James,  in  behalf  of  herself  and  daughter  (said 
Lady  Catherine,  then  a  minor),  obtained  the  authority  of  an 
Act  of  Parliament  to  enable  her,  during  her  life,  or  such  as 
may  on  her  decease  be  the  guardian  of  said  Lady  Catherine, 
to  make  leases  for  31  years  of  the  estates  devised  by  the  late 
Earl  James  to  her  and  her  daughter.  This  Lady  Catherine, 
having  in  1717  married  Sir  Marcus  Beresford  (the  descendant 
of  Tristram  Beresford,  who  came  over  on  the  Plantation  of 
Ulster,  as  manager  for  the  Corporation  of  Londoners,  com- 
monly styled  the  Irish  Sodety),  he  was  raised  to  the  Peerage 
in  1720,  as  Baron  Beresford  of  Cavan  and  Viscount  Tyrone, 
and,  in  26  years  after,  was  cheated  Earl  of  Tyrone.  His 
descendant  was  further  advanced  in  1789  to  the  Marquisate 
of  Waterford. 

Besides  this  Colonel,  John  Power  was  Lieutenant-Colonel 
in  Lord  Ealmallock's  In&ntry;  as  was  James  Power  in  Sir 
Michael  Creagh^s.     The  name  was   also  commissioned  on 

*  Memoirs  oflrekend^  1716,  p.  34. 
t  iSitof^'f /n^Kir^  iKMOf^,  pt  L,  p.  143. 


EABL  OF  TYBONE*S  INFANTBT.  209 

Tjrroonners  Horse,  on  Sir  Francis  Carroll's  Dragoons,  and 
on  Lords  Kenmare's,  Clancartj's  and  Gralway's,  Edward 
Butleir's  and  Dudley  Bagnall's  respectiye  Regiments  of 
In&ntry.  In  the  Parliament  of  1689,  while  the  above  Earl 
sat  amongst  the  Peers,  John  Power  was  in  the  Commons, 
one  of  the  representatives  of  the  County  of  Waterford;  as 
was  John  Power  of  Ealbolan  for  the  Borough  of  Charleville. 
The  Attainders  of  1691  include  this  Earl  of  Tyrone  with  the 
aforesaid  John  Power  of  Elilbolan,  three  others  in  Cork,  four 
in  Carlow,  three  in  Gralway,  one  in  Clare,  and  thirty^one  in 
Waterford.  On  tiie  formation  in  France  of  the  Brigade 
Regiment  styled  <of  Dublin,*  this  John  Power  was  appointed 
Colonel,  while  another  John  Power,  the  Lieutenant-Colonel 
it  would  seem  of  Sir  Michael  Creagh's,  had  the  same  rank 
under  him. 

In  1703  John  Power,  ^commonly  called  Lord  Power/ 
petitioned  Queen  Anne,  setting  forth  that  '^during  the  late 
calamitous  limes  he  was  kind  and  serviceable  to  divers 
Protestants,  especially  in  Limerick  during  the  siege,  he  being 
then  Mayor  of  the  dty;  that  he  had  gone  to  France  and  was 
in  the  army  there,  when  encouragement  having  been  given  to 
him  by  the  late  King  William,  he  quitted  that  country, 
though  offered  a  Major-Generalship  if  he  remained ;  that  the 
sudden  death  of  that  King  retarded  his  interest,  but  her 
Majesty  having  given  him  license  to  return,  he  gave  up  his 
son  to  be  educated  a  Protestant,  the  Queen  allowing  a  yearly 
nuuntenance  for  his  education ;  and  that  she  gave  himself  an 
appointment  to  go  and  serve  the  'King  of  Portugal,  her  ally. 
That,  during  his  absence  from  the  kingdom,  he  was  outlawed 
as  for  treason,  though,  as  he  relied,  he  had  neither  real  nor 
personal  property  that  could  accrue  to  the  Crown  by  his 
outlawry.  That  however,  by  a  recent  Act  of  Parliament  such 
voii.  n.  P 


210  KINO  JAMEB'S  IRISH  ABMT  LI8T. 

attunder  could  not  be  cleared  awaj,  bat  only  by  another 
Act,  the  benefit  of  which  he  therefore  prajed.  In  the 
Civil  Establishment  of  1727  the  name  of  Henry  Power, 
commonly  called  Lord  Power,  appears  for  a  grant  of  £550 
per  aiMium^  althoogh  a  fieport  of  the  Irish  Commons'  Com* 
mittee  in  1715  said,  that  this  pension  was  granted  to  a  person 
of  suspected  principles  in  London.  This  Henry,  as  appears 
by  another  petition  in  1717,  of  Sir  Marcos  Beresford  (the 
husband  of  Lady  Catherine)  claimed  her  estates  as  next  Kevr 
male  of  her  &ther.  The  attempt  was  however  denounced  as 
'  bold  and  dangerous.'  The  claimant  died  in  1742,  and  was 
buried  in  the  vault  of  St  Matthew's,  Biiigsend,  County 
Dublin. 


CAPTAIN  JOSEPH  COMERFORD. 

Obtelitjs'b  Map  locates  this  family  in  the  Barony  of  Shel- 
bume  in  Wexford,  it  was  established  also  in  the  adjoining 
Counties  of  Waterford  and  Kilkenny.  In  1358  John  '  Que- 
merfoid'  was  one  of  those  whom  the  King  appointed  to 
assess  and  collect  a  subsidy  over  the  latter  county  in  idd  of 
the  war  against  Art  Kavanagh.  In  that  century  Patrick 
Freny  (French)  died  seised  of  premises  in  Kilkenny,  to  a 
portion  of  which  Ellen  Freny  succeeded  as  one  of  his 
oo-heireases ;  she  afterwards  married  Richard  Comerford 
senior,  who  was  &ther  of  Richard  the  younger,  whose  son 
and  heir  Thomas  Comerford  died  in  1558,  seised  of  the  manor, 
castle,  and  town  of  Ballyburr,  leaving  Richard  his  s<m  and 
heir,  then  aged  24  and  married.  It  was  by  a  daughter  of 
this  Kohard  that  John,  brother  of  the  last  Earl  of  Desmond, 


^HPj^lj^jjUP^^gijUqUmipi^ggp^jUB^^^^p^^^^^^^'^'^^'^HI^pi— ai     p  III  I         iiw 


EABL  OF  TTBOKE*S  INFAKTBT.  211 

had  an  only  son  Gkrald,  who  retired  with  his  &ther  to  Spain^ 
where,  after  the  death  of  Earl  James,  they  bore  the  title  of 
Counts  of  Desmond  in  sncoession,  until  Gerald's  death  in 
Germany,  s*  p. 

In  the  Corporate  History  of  Waterford  this  name  appears 
frequently  on  the  roll  of  Mayors  from  1432  to  the  Be^olution. 
In  the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth  Grarret  Comerford  was  one  of 
the  CounsellOTS  appointed  by  the  Lord  Deputy,  1^  Charles 
Blount,  to  be  assistant  to  the  Lord  President  of  Munster  in 
the  discharge  of  his  arduous  duties;  his  aetangs  in  which  trust 
are  repeatedly  noticed  in  the  Pacata  Hibemia,  He  ranked 
as  second  Justice  of  Munster,  and  was  in  1603  advanoed  to 
be  the  second  Baron  of  the  Irish  Exchequer.  In  the  following 
year,  he  died  sdsed  in  fee  of  the  manor  of  Inchol^an,  with 
the  advowson  thereto  belonging,  in  the  County  of  Ejlkenny ; 
leaving  Fulke  Comerford  his  son  and  heir,  then  of  full  age 
but  not  married.  This  Fulke  died  in  1622,  Gerald,  his  son 
and  heir  being  then  only  eleven  years  of  age.  In  1607 
Thomas  Comerford,  of  Callan,  had  a  grant  of  sundry  mes- 
suages  and  gardens  in  that  town  or  within  its  liberties;  and 
in  1617  Thomas  Comerford  had  Uvery,  ^B  son  and  heir  of 
James  Comerford  of  Ballymacka  in  Kilkenny;  he  was 
subsequently  seised  of  Garryricken,  and  died  in  1635, 
leaving  James  junior,  his  son  and  heir,  then  aged  21,  In 
1624  Richard  Comerford  of  Denginmore  in  the  County 
Kilkenny  died,  seised  of  the  manor  of  Blackcastle  in  Meaih, 
with  sundiy  other  castles  and  lands,  Ac.,  Edmund  kia  son 
and  heir  died  in  five  years  after,  Thomas,  his  son  and  heir, 
being  then  of  full  age  and  married.  Pierce  Comerford, 
described  as  of  Man^,  County  of  Wicklow^  is  the  only 
individual  of  the  name  who  appears  on  the  Boll  of  the  1642 
attainders.      At  the  Supreme  Council  of  the  Confederate 


212  KDra  james's  iBigH  abkt  list. 

Catholics  (1646,  &c.),  Dr.  Patrick  Comerford,  then  Bonuui 
Catholic  Bishop  of  Waterford,  sat  as  one  of  the  spiritoal  Peers, 
while  Edward  Comerford  of  Callan  was  of  the  Commons. 

On  this  Army  List,  besides  the  above  Captein  Joseph, 
there  are  commissioned,  in  Colonel  Thomas  Butler's  Foot, 
Michaek  Comerford  a  Lieutenant,  and  James  and  Garret 
Ensigns;  and  in  Colonel  Dudley  Bagnall's,  John  Comerford 
was  an  Ensign.  On  the  Attsdnders  of  1691  are  four,  of 
proprietors  within  the  County  of  Kilkenny,  vdth  Thomas 
Comerford  of  Ennisoorthy,  During  the  wars  of  the  Spanish 
Succesnon,  John  Comerford  was  distinguished  as  Colonel  of 
an  Lish  Begiment  of  In&ntry  in  the  Army  of  Philip  the 
Fifth;  and  there  were  several  gallant  officers  of  the  name, 
bdonging  to  the  Lnsh  Brigades  in  the  service  of  Ftanoe. 


CAPTAINS  VALENTINE  AND  PEERS  WALSH. 

*  The  earliest  representatives  of  this  name  in  Ireland  were/ 
writes  O'Callaghan,*  *  two  noble  men  in  the  time  of  Henry 
the  Second,  viz.,  Philip  Walsh  distinguished  for  his  gallantry 
in  1174,  in  a  naval  engagement  against  the  Danes  at  Cork, 
by  boarding  the  ship  of  their  Admiral,  Turgesius,  and  slaying 
his  son  Gilbert;  and  David  Walsh,  who  signalized  himself  in 
the  following  year  at  the  crossing  of  the  Shannon,  when 
Baymond  le  Gros  attacked  Limerick.  From  this  Philip  and 
David  sprang  the  Walshes  of  Castiehowel  in  the  County 
of  Kilkenny,  (where  a  range  of  mountams  is  stiU  known  by 
their  name)  ;  of  Ballykileavan  in  the  Queen's  County;   of 

*  Brigadet^  voL  1,  pp.  iSO-I. 


^m 


EABL  OF  TYBONB'S  INFAKTBT.  213 

Ballyrickmore  in  Waterford ;  of  GraugUabeg  in  Tipperary ; 
of  Oldcourt  and  Old  Connaught  in  Wicklow,  and  of  Camck«> 
mines  in  Dublin  Counties. 

In  the  reign  of  Edward  the  Third,  John,  son  of  Bartholo- 
mew '  the  Walsh,*  had  letters  of  pardon  and  protection  dated 
at  Kilmallock ;  as  had  John,  son  of  Bichard,  son  of  William 
Walsh  at  Clomnel.  Gregory  Walsh  of  Anath  was  in  1356 
the  assessor  of  a  subsidy  off  the  County  of  Cork,  about  which 
time  William  Walsh,  dying  seised  of  Killmorin  in  that 
County,  David  his  son  and  heir  succeeded  thereto.  Thomas 
Walsh  was  then  appointed  to  assess  a  hosting  on  Tipperary. 
A  remarkable  appeal  of  John  Walshe  '  of  the  island,'  in  1376, 
from  the  Conmstory  of  Cork  to  the  Prerogative  of  Cashel,  is 
of  record  in  the  Bolls  of  Chancery.  In  nine  years  after 
King  Bichard  '  granted  *  to  Nicholas,  son  of  John  Walsh, 
and  to  Philip  lesagh  Walsh,  that  they  '  might  chastise '  the 
malefactors  of  their  sept,  and  parley  with  the  Bong's  enemies 
in  the  County  of  E^ilkenny.  In  1401  Peter  '  Walsche '  was 
a  Justice  in  eyre<,  as  was  Nicholas  Walsche  in  1409.  Another 
Nicholas  was  Sheriff  of  the  County  of  Waterford  in  1414 ; 
at  which  time  Boger  Walsh  was  one  of  three  commissioners 
appointed  'to  enquire  concerning  the  underground  obstruc- 
tions, that  affected  the  course  of  the  Poddle  river,  and  caused 
the  Cathedral  of  St.  Patrick's  to  be  flooded  and  wasted.'  In 
1431  Henry,  son  and  heir  of  William  Walsh  deceased, 
petitioned  the  King,  setting  forth  that  his  &ther,  said  Wil- 
liam, had,  some  years  previously,  a  grant  of  the  lands  of 
BaUyhawIey,  &c.,  in  tail  male,  and  he  prayed  a  confirmation 
of  such  his  inheritance.  In  1441  Henry  Walsh,  styled  of 
Carrickmayne  (probably  the  Henry  of  tiie  last  notice)  had  a 
Treasury  '  liberate '  for  his  services  and  great  expenses,  in 
refflsting  the  enemy  on  the  marches  of  the  County  Dublin 


214  KING  jajieb's  ibish  abmy  ubt. 

In  1587  the  Queen,  by  letters  under  the  Ptitj  Seal, 
commanded  that  NicholaB  Wabh,  who  had  been  Chief  Justioe 
of  Munster,  and  was  then  Second  Justice  of  the  Bench  in 
Dublin,  should  be  sworn  of  Her  Majesty's  PriTy  CoundL 
He  was  subsequently,  in  1603,  promoted  by  E^g  James 
to  be  Chief  Justioe  of  the  Common  Pleas.  A  little  genea- 
logical manuscript  in  Trinity  College,  Dublin  (F.  iii.  27),* 
gives  some  links  of  the  pedigree  of  the  Walshes  of  Killen- 
cargy,  County  of  Wicklow,  and  of  Kilgobbin,  Canickmines, 
and  Shanganagh,  County  of  Dublin,  for  many  generations. 
Amongst  the  'Englished  Irish,*  reported  in  the  time  of 
James  the  First  to  be  sojourning,  after  the  dege  of  Kinsale, 
in  the  King  of  Spain's  dominions,  were  "William  Walsh, 
Nicholas  '  Wise,'  Captain  Thomas  Preston,  James  Gremon, 
Walter  De  la  Hqyde  (who  served  the  ancient  Irish  in  the 
last  war),  George  De  h,  Hoyde»  Captain  Bathe,  Thomas 
Stanyhurst,  John  Bathe,  &c.''  In  1593  died  Theobald 
Walsh  of  Carrickmayne,  and  Bichaxd,  then  his  son  and  heir, 
died  in  1619,  leaving  Theobald,  junior,  his  son,  aged  16  years. 
In  1599  Sir  Nicholas  '  Welch'  was  one  of  the  Councillors 
appcnnted  by  the  Lord  Deputy  to  be  assistant  on  the  Presi* 
dent  of  Munster,  and  his  services  there  are  detailed  in  the 
Paeata  Hibernian  Early  in  the  reign  of  James  the  First,  Sir 
Oliver  Lambert^  Knight,  Privy  CoundUor,  had  a  grant  of 
{inter  alia)  estates  of  Richard  and  Oliver  '  Walshe,'  in  the 
King's  County,  both  of  whom,  as  the  patent  alleges,  were 
'  slain  in  rebellion  against  Queen  Elizabeth.' 

In  1603  James,  son  and  heir  of  Bobert  Walsh,  late  of 
Waterford,  had  livery  of  his  estates ;  as  had  Walter,  son  and 

heir  of  Bobert  Walsh,  late  of  Castlehowdl,  in  Kilkenny,  in 

I ■ 

*  Damd  Mofyneuafs  CoUecliong, 


•  i    L      '»• 


EAKL  OF  TTHOKE'S  IKFAKTBT.  215 

1605.  In  1605  the  above  Chief  Justice,  Sir  Nicholas  Walsh, 
obtained  by  patent  various  estates  in  Kilkenny  and  Water- 
ford,  same  being  thereby  limited  to  himself  and  his  wife  in 
tail  male,  remainder  to  Nicholas  Walsh,  junior,  the  '  natural 
or  reputed '  son  of  Bsid  Sir  Nicholas,  in  tail  male ;  remainders 
to  James,  son  of  Edward;  and  to  Bichard,  son  of  James 
Walshe  respectiyely,  with  other  remainders  over.  In  1608 
Bichard,  son  and  heir  of  Theobald  Wabh  of  Carrickmines, 
deceased,  had  livery  of  his  estates ;  while  James  Walsh  had  a 
grant,  in  three  years  after,  of  the  Castles  of  Shanganagh  and 
Connagh,  with  lands  there  as  well  as  in  Corkagh  and  Little 
Brea.  An  Inquisition  taken  at  Ejikenny  in  1639,  found  that 
Walter  Walsh,  then  late  of  Castie-hoyle  in  that  County,  had 
in  1613,  together  with  his  wife,  settled  his  estates  to  the 
respective  uses  of  James  Walsh  and  Edmund  Walsh,  both 
of  whom  had  died  before  holding  the  Inquisition,  and  that 
after  the  death  of  said  Edmund,  Piers  Walsh  succeeded  to 
the  inheritance,  as  his  son  and  heir,  and  that  he  died  in  1637, 
leaving  Edmund  his  son  and  heir,  then  aged  nine  years.  In 
the  reign  of  James  the  First  Thomas  Walsh  was  promoted 
by  the  Pope  to  the  See  of  Waterford,  where,  as  reported  to 
the  government,  he  was  '  relieved  by  his  fnends  and  by  a 
stipend  he  received  for  ministering  sacraments  and  preaching.' 
Dr.  James  Walsh,  appointed  to  Ferns  at  the  same  time  and 
by  the  same  authority,  'lives  by  private  tithes  and  by  the 
help  of  Us  friends.' 

The  Walshes  attainted  in  1642  were  WiHiam  of  Anges- 
town  in  Meath ;  Oliver,  Christopher,  and  Laurence  of  Moor- 
town,  Nicholas  of  Kildrought  (Celbridge),  John  of  Castle- 
dermot,  clerk,  and  Bichard  of  Kilcullen-bridge,  all  in  the 
County  of  Kildare.  Piers  of  Loyglass,  Edward,  Edmund, 
and  Henry  of  Clonmannin,  Michael  and  TVllliam  of  Park, 


216  KINO  fAMBS'B  IBISH  ABKT  LIST. 

and  John  of  Killincarrig  (these  last  all  in  Widdow  Conniy:) 
with  Theobald  and  John  of  Carrickmines,  Patrick  of  Tyrrels- 
town,  and  John  of  Newtown -Coolock  in  Dablin.  At  the 
Kilkenny  Assembly  in  1646,  Thomas  Walsh,  the  Roman 
Catholic  Archbishop  of  Dublin,  was  of  the  Spiritual  Peers, 
while  Michael  and  WilUam  of  Park,  County  of  Wicklow, 
with  John  of  Ballybechaine,  and  John  of  Wallford,  were  of 
the  Commons.  An  Inquisition,  taken  in  1687,  finds  that 
John  Walsh,  of  the  old  stock  at  Shanganagh,  died  in  1671, 
seised  in  tail-male  of  Ejlturk^  '  Connagh,*  Cork,  and  Little 
Bray;  that  he  held  same  directly  under  the  King  by  military 
service,  and  that  Edward  Walsh  is  his  son  and  heir.  On  the 
subsequent  death  of  this  Edward  without  issue,  these  estates 
passed  to  his  brother,  John,  in  whose  time  by  a  private  Act 
of  the  Irish  Parliament  (11th  Anne,  chap.  4)  the  Shanganagh 
and  Cork  or  Corkagh  parcels  were  sold  for  the  payment  of 
debts.  In  1668  Walter  Walsh  had  a  confirmatory  giant  of 
829  acres  in  the  Queen's  County,  370  in  Dublin,  687  in 
Cork,  and  of  the  Castle,  manor  and  lands  (200  acres)  of 
Kilbegge  in  Wexford;  while  in  1679  John  Walsh  passed 
patent  for  1,793  acres  in  Tipperary,  to  hold  to  him,  his  heirs 
and  assigns,  and  to  the  heirs  of  Patrick  Walsh,  who  was 
grandson  of  David  Walsh  the  proprietor  in  1641.  Ensigns 
Greorge  and  Robert  Walsh  were  of  the  '  1649*  (Mcers. 

Beddes  the  above  two  Captains  in  this  Regiment,  with 
Robert  Walsh  a  Lieutenant,  and  John  Walsh  an  Ensign 
thereon ;  in  Lord  Galmoy's  Horse,  Levns  and  Oliver  Walsh 
were  Comets ;  in  Tyrconners  Michael  Walsh  was  a  Quarter- 
Master;  in  Colonel  Cormuck  O'Neill's  Infantry,  James  was 

an  Ensign ;  in  Colonel  Charles  Cavenagh's, Walsh  was 

also  a  Captain,  as  was  another  Walsh  in  the  Earl  of  West- 
meath*6 ;  and  in  Colonel  John  Grace's,  Robert  Walsh  was  a 


EABI.  OF  TTBON£*S  INFANTBT.  217 

Captain  and  Adam  Walsh  an  Ensign.  This  Robert,  described 
as  'of  Cloneshj/  wito  one  of  the  Bepresentatives  of  the 
County  of  Kilkenny  in  the  Parliament  of  1689  at  Dublin. 

Both  the  above  Captains,  Valentine  and  Peirs,  were 

of  the  aforesaid  Sept,  distinguished  as  *  Walsh  of  the  Moun- 
tains.' The  former  ttbs  attainted  in  1691,  described  as  of 
Piltown,  Coimty  of  Waterford,  as  was  Piers,  of  Guning, 
County  of  Kilkenny,  With  ten  others  in  the  latter  County, 
five  in  Wexford,  two  of  Wicklow,  and  tWo  of  Dublin.  The 
only  Walsh  estate,  on  which  a  claim  was  made  at  Chichester 
House,  was  that  of  Robert  Walsh  in  the  County  of  Kilkenny, 
whereon  Mary  his  widow  claimed  the  fee  of  tithes  and  glebes 
found  to  be  forfeited  by  him,  but  which  she  alleged  were  hers, 
under  the  will  of  Piers  Walsh,  her  father. 


■i-ji. 


CAPTAIN  FRANCIS  CRITISE. 

Of  this  Anglo-Norman  family,  which  had,  on  the  conquest  of 
England,  settled  in  Cornwall^  a  branch  came  to  Ireland  with 
the  invaders  of  Henry  the  Second's  tdme^  and  obtained  giants, 
from  the  successful  '  Strongbow'  and  Prince  John,  of  various 
estates  in  the  Counties  of  Dublin  and  Meath;  those  in  the 
former  included  the  glen  of  the  Naul,  on  the  boundary  of 
each.  At  its  head  a  member  of  this  family  erected  that  castle 
whose  ruins  faintly  testify  its  former  importance,  and  in 
which  his  descendants  resided  down  to  the  time  of  Charles  the 
First.  In  1225,  when  the  ^ssensions  of  the  O'Conor  family 
distracted  Connaught,  Hugh  0*Conor  seeking  the  aid  of  the 
English  *•  was  not  disappointed,  they  promptly  and  cheerfully 
responded  to  the  call,  and  their  expedition  proved  profitable 


218  KIKO  JAHE8*8  IBISH  ABITT  LIST. 

to  them,  for  great  was  their  booty  and  small  their  loss.  They 
were  on  this  occasion  commanded  by  William  Cnice*  and  the 
the  sons  of  Griffin.'*  Stephen  '  de  Craes'  was  the  indiyidiial 
sdused  of  the  Naul  in  the  time  of  Richard  the  First  and  King 
John.  His  lineal  descendant,  Hugh  *  de  Crues*  married  the 
heiress  of  Sir  Henry  Tyrrell,  to  whom  the  Chief  Serjeantcy  of 
Leinster  was  granted  by  Prince  John;  and  by  this  marriage, 
according  to  the  constmction  of  the  law  at  that  period, 
Tyrrel's  estates,  with  the  seijeantcy,  passed  to  this  Hugh, 
and  his  filling  such  office  at  the  time  is  proved  by  a  roll  in  the 
Tower  of  London.  His  grandson,  Nicholas  *  de  Cruys,'  had 
license  to  enfeoff  his  son  Robert  in  the  estates  and  serjeantcy ; 
soon  after  which,  Robert  dying,  King  Edward  the  Second,  in 
1320,  committed  to  the  Royal  Escheator  the  custody  of  his 
estates,  &c.,  to  hold  during  the  minority  of  his  son  Richard. 
In  1346  Thomas,  son  of  a  Peter  de  Cruys,  was  commissioned 
with  the  Baron  of  Slane  and  others,  to  parley  with  the  dis- 
affected Irish  of  Meath,  and  induce  them  to  allegiance. 
Walter  de  Cruys  was  about  the  same  time  confirmed  by 
Edward  the  Third  in  his  seisin  of  the  manor  of  Balrothery, 
which  his  father  had  held  before  him;  while  another  branch 
of  the  family  was  then  seised  of  the  manor  of  Stillorgan,  at 
the  south  side  of  the  Liffey . 

By  an  inquisition  taken  in  1356,  it  was  found  that  the 
King*s  Escheator,  acting  on  the  aforesaid  authority  of  1320, 
had  seised  upon  sundry  lands  which  were  held  by  military 
service  of  De  Cruys's  manor  of  the  Naul;  that  Richard,  then 
a  minor,  having  subsequently  attained  age,  acquired  same, 
and  died  seised  thereof  in  1338,  leaving  John  de  Cruys  his 
heir,  who  died  in  1359,  dmilarly  seised  of  the  manor  of  the 

*  AtmaU  of  the  Four  MasUn, 


EABL  OF  TYBONE'S  mVASTBY.  219 

Naol,  as  vreVL  as  of  other  lands  in  Cruisetown  and  Altemaah, 
whicli  last  he  held  of  the  Lady  Elkabeth  de  Bui^o,  as  of  her 
manor  of  Kells.  Margaret,  the  only  ohild  and  hdress  of  lUs 
John,  had  preyiously  married  Simon  Cruise,  and  thus  kept 
the  estates,  &c.  in  the  same  name  and  fiunily.  That  Simon 
acquired  the  serjeantcy  also,  and  acted  in  discharge  of  its 
duties,  is  proved  by  a  record  of  1376  in  the  office  of  the  Chief 
Remembrancer,  Dublin.  In  that  year  a  John  Cruys,  who 
appears  to  have  been  a  son  of  this  Simon,  was  elected  a 
confidential  envoy  to  England,  to  communicate  with  the 
government  there  on  the  state  of  Ireland,  and  he  received 
£20  as  remuneration  for  his  expenses  of  travel  and  sojourn. 
In  1380  he  was  summoned  to  a  Parliament  convened  to  meet 
at  Baltinglas;  in  two  years  after  was  appointed  one  of  the 
guardians  of  the  Peace  for  the  Counties  of  Dublin  and  Meath; 
in  1385,  fiUed  the  office  of  Justice  in  eyrey  and  in  the  same 
year  had  a  treasury  liberate  for  his  expenses  and  services  in  a 
military  expedition  against  the  O'TooIes  and  other  *•  Irish 
enemies,*  on  whidi  occasion  he  was  badly  wounded.  In  1386 
the  King^s  Escheator  was  ordered  to  give  possession  of  the 
manors  of  Clonmore  and  Mansfieldstown  in  the  County  of 
Louth  to  (as  it  would  seem)  this  John  and  Matilda  his  wife. 
In  tiie  following  year,  he  and  John  D*Arcy,  then  Sheriff  of 
Meath,  had  nmilar  commission  with  that  which  was  given  to 
Thomas  de  Cruys  in  1346. 

In  1394  John  Cruys  was  summoned  to  a  great  council;  in 
the  following  year  he  had  an  order  on  the  treasuiy  for  twenty 
marks,  on  account  of  his  services  at  divers  councils,  and  for 
his  expenses  in  furnishing  men-at-arms  and  archers,  during 
the  wars  in  Widdow,  Westmeath,  and  other  places;  and  in 
1399,  by  a  writ  reciting  that,  whereas  John  Cruys,  'chevaler,* 
held  160  acres  at  Thomcastle  (Booteratown  near  Dublin),  the 


220  KING  James's  ibish  abht  list. 

rent  of  which  to  the  Crown  he  was  unable  to  di69harge,  by 
reason  of  the  premises  being  subject  to  be  burned  and  laid 
waste  by  adjoining  Irish  enemies  of  the  mountains;  it  was 
thereupon  directed  that  he  should  be  exempted  from  any  such 
payments  during  his  life<  In  1404  he,  being  then  styled 
Knight,  was  empowered,  jointly  with  five  other  Commis- 
doners,  to  assemble  the  magnates, '  proceres,'  and  commons  of 
die  County  of  Dublin,  when  their  services  might  be  required ; 
and,  in  two  years  after,  he  had  committed  to  his  custody  the 
manor  of  Bathwyre,  with  the  advowson  of  the  church  there. 
An  inquisition  of  1408  finds  that  this  John  had  died  seised, 
in  his  own  right  and  in  right  of  his  wife,  of  the  manors  of 
Merrion,  Thomcastle,  Killsallaghan,  Bathmore,  Donagh- 
patrick,  and  Ballgyhen,  with  portions  of  those  of  Duleek, 
Dundalk,  and  Kenlis,  of  which  Thomas,  who  was  their  son 
and  heir,  became  afterwards  possessed }  while  a  James  Cruys, 
who  married  Catherine  Plunket,  had  livery  from  the  Crown 
of  the  inheritance  of  the  Naul,  toith  the  office  of  Chief  Serjeant^ 
It  is  of  record  that,  on  some  untrue  suggestions  to  the  Crown, 
this  office  was  afterwards  conferred  on  a  Walter  Goulding, 
who,  and  his  descendants  for  four  generations,  usurped  the 
office,  until  in  the  time  of  Edward  the  Sixth  (1552)  Walter, 
described  as  the  descendant  and  heir  of  the  above  James 
Cruys,  proceeded  to  recover  the  office  before  the  Lord  Deputy 
and  Privy  Council,  when,  "  after  the  production  and  examina- 
tion of  divers  and  several  ancient  and  authentic  writings, 
deeds,  licenses,  and  inquisitions;  and,  after  allowing  a  long 
time  to  the  counsel  for  the  Crown,  to  show  any  title  in  the 
King,  when  passing  the  patent  to  Goulding,  it  was  decreed 
and  adjudged  that  the  said  Walter  Cruys'  ancestors  were  all, 

*  LyncJCe  Feudal  Dignities^  p.  104,  drc 


BABL  OF  TYBONE'S  INFAKTBT.  221 

under  the  giant  from  Eling  John,  lineally  seised  and  possessed 

of  said  office,  and  that  said  Walter  should  be  inunediately 

restored  to  the  possession  thereof,  and  enjoy  same  according 

to  said  grant  of  Eang  John.     Accordingly  it  was  found  on 

inquisition  of  1610,  that  Christopher,  son  and  heir  of  Walter 

de  Cruys,  had  been  seised  of  the  manors  of  Naul,  Grallagh, 

and  Cmisetown  in  the  Counties  of  Dublin  and  Meath,  and 

also  in  his  demesne  as  in  fee  of  the  Chief  Serjeantcy  of  the 

County  of  Dublin^  '^  which  office  was  granted  to  his  ancestor  by 

the  most  serene  Prince  John,  formerly  Eang  of  England,  to 

be  held  from  him  and  his  successors  by  military  service ;  that 

said  Christopher  died  in  that  year  (1610),  and  was  succeeded 

by  his  grandson  and  heir,  Christopher,  son  of  (reotge  Cruise, 

who  continued  seised  thereof  to  the  time  of  the  civil  war, 

when  he  forfeited  on  attainder  the  manor  of  the  Naul  and 

other  lands  in  the  County  of  Dublin,  with  the  Castle  and  500 

acres,  which  were  granted  to  Charles,  Viscount  Fitz-Harding* 

With  him  were  then  attainted  Walter  Cruise  of  Cruise* 

town.  County  of  Meath,  and  Peter  Cruise  of  the  Naul. 

The  latter  was  transplanted  on  a  Connaught  debenture,  into 

that  Province,  and  from  him  are  the  western  Cruises  prind- 

paUy  descended.      Their    previous   existence,   however,  in 

Clare  is  shown  by  an  annal  of  the  Four  Masters  at  1584, 

where  is  stated  that,  when   Sir  John  Perrot  was  on  his 

memorable  circuit,  to  persuade  or  compel  the  gentry  of  that 

devoted  Province  to  compound  for  titles  to  their  estates,  "  he 

was  waited  upon  at  Quin  Abbey  (in  Clare),  where  he  stopped, 

by Cruise,  then  Sheriff  of  the  County.*'    In  five  years 

after  the  same  annalists  record  an  engagement  between  the 
Burkes  and  the  people  of  Inchiquin,  in  which  Thomas,  the 

*  UAU09C9  HuU  CourUy  ofJDMin,  pp.  487  &  494. 


222  KING  JAHfiS'S  IBISH  ABMT  LIST. 

son  of  Christopher  Cruise  was  slain/*  In  1646  Walter 
Cruise  of  Arlonan  was  one  of  the  Supreme  Council  at 
Kilkenny.  In  1668  a  confirmatory  grant  of  lands  in  the 
County  of  Louth  to  Mary  and  John  Fowke  contained  a 
saving  of  the  right  of  a  Christopher  Cruise  to  a  mortgage 
thereon;  while,  in  1679,  Gairett  Cruioe  had  a  confirmatory  ^< 

grant  of  121   acres  in   Roscommon. In   Lord    Slane's  ^^ 

Segment  of  Infitntry ^  Cruise  was  a  Captain.  .  .^^ 

The  Attainders  of  1691  broke  the  fortunes  of  many  of 
the  name,  and  in  particular  of  Patrick  Cruise  of  Taberath,  .^ 

County  of  Meath,  and  Patrick  Cruise  of  Dublin,  M.D. ;  firom  ,  -^ 

whom,  as  well  as  firom  the  above  mentioned  Walter  of  Cruise-  . 

town,  are  descended  the  Cruises  of  Bahood,  Belgart,  Drynam,  ^^ 

iSbc.,  in  short  all  the  Cruises  of  Leinster,  as  well  as  some  in 
Munster.  Drynham  had  been  the  estate  of  the  Bussells,  but, 
by  the  marriage  of  Andrew  Cruise  of  the  old  Naxd  line  with 
Bridget,  the  daughter  and  heiress  of  Bartholomew  Bussell,  > 

in  1771,  ants  p.  81,  it  passed  to  that  fiunily.  Bobert  Russell 
Cruise,  the  great  grandson  of  that  marriage^  now  represents 
those  two  lines. 


CAPTAIN  DOMINICK  FERRITER. 

This  fionily  is  of  Irish  record  firom  the  time  of  Edward  the 
Third.  "  It  was,"  writes  the  Reverend  Mr.  Rowan  to  the 
compiler  of  these  papers,  '^  a  family  established  at  Dingle  in 
the  County  of  Kerry,  and  conspicuous  in  the  troubles  of 
1641,  <&c.,  when  a  member,  Piers  Ferriter,  was  taken  prisoner 
and  executed  by  Cromwell^s  commander.  Brigadier  Neilson, 
at  Eallamey."  Besides  this  officer,  Edmund  Ferriter  stands 
upon  the  Army  List  a  Captain  in  Colonel  Niohohis  Browne's 


«  • 


<■'- 


i  ' 


-'I 


£ABL  OF  tybohe's  ikfantbt.  228 

In&ntry ;  ndither  name,  however,  appears  on  the  subsequent 
Attidnders,  but  only  those  of  Maurioe  Ferriter  of  Ballynalugy 
and  Peter  Ferriter  of  Ballyoaghter  in  the  County  of  Kerry. 


CAPTAIN  NICHOLAS  STAFFOED. 

This  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  earliest  period 
after  the  English  Invasion.  In  1408  Maurice  Stafford, 
who  had  served  the  King  in  Munster,  where  he  was  taken 
prisoner  by  Turlogh  Mac  Brene,  and  kept  in  captivity  until 
he  paid  largely  for  his  ransom,  had  a  grant  from  the  Crown 
of  certain  lands  in  Kilkenny;  he  was  afterwards  commissioned 
as  a  Justice  in  eyre.  In  1411  Philip  Stafford  was  one  of  the 
influential  gentry  of  the  County  of  Wexford  elected,  to  raise 
a  gratuity  for  the  prior  of  Kilmainham,  by  reason  of  his 
services  within  said  County*  In  1599  Francis  Stafford  was 
on  the  Council  appointed  to  be  assistant  to  the  Lord  Pre* 
sident  of  Munster  in  conducting  the  government  of  that 
disturbed  Province ;  while  a  Captain  William  Stafford,  with 
one  hundred  Infantry,  and  a  Lieutenant  Thomas,  were 
distinguished  there  in  that  service  a^  shown  in  the  Pacata 
Hihemia.  In  1600  Dr.  Nicholas  Stafford  was  appointed  by 
the  Queen,  Bishop  of  Ferns,  in  the  enjoyment  of  which  See 
he  died  in  1604.  In  1606  Eling  James  the  First  granted 
to  William  Barker  the  wardship  and  marriage  of  Nicholas 
Stafford,  son  and  heir  of  Richard  Stafford  of  Ballinakaheme, 
County  of  Wexford,  deceased;  for  a  fine  of  £17  16s.  8d.,  and 
an  annual  rent  to  the  same  amount,  with  the  usual  allowance 
for  his  maintenance  and  education  in  Trinity  College  ;*  and 

*  Pnaent  RoU^  3  James  /.,  m  Cane.  Eib. 


224  KING  JAMES'S  IBISH  ABMY  LIST. 

in  1612  John  Stafford  had  livery  of  his  estates,  as  son  of 
Nicholaa  Stafford  the  younger,  who  was  son  and  heir  of 
Nicholas,  the  elder,  hite  of  Ballinakaheme,  in  Wexford, 
deceased.  In  1624  died  Kichard  Stafford,  seised  of  the  manor 
of  Bahayle  and  sundry  other  lands  in  Wexford,  James,  his 
son  and  heir,  being  then  but  16  years  old.  In  six  years  after 
Hamond  Stafibrd  of  Ballyconnor,  in  the  same  County,  died 
leaving  Hamond  junior,  the  son  of  his  son  Denis,  his  heir, 
then  of  full  age.  In  lCi32  the  above  John  Stafford  of  Bally- 
nakaheme,  being  seised  of  the  manor,  castle,  and  lands  there, 
settled  same  on  the  marriage  of  his  son  and  heir  Nicholas, 
with  Mary  daughter  of  Peter  Cornwall  of  Drymnagh,  to 
which  estates  said  Nicholas  succeeded  in  1638  on  the  death 
of  his  father. 

A  manuscript  book  of  obits  in  Trinity  College  supplies 
links  of  the  pedigree  and  descendants  of  the  Staffords  of 
Wexford  for  four  generations,  At  the  Supreme  Council  of 
Ejlkenny  in  1646,  Bichard,  son  of  Bichard  Stafford  (evidently 
of  the  Ballinakaheme  line)  was  one  of  the  attending  confederate 
Catholics.  In  1677  William  Stafford,  of  Lisneroe  in  Mayo 
had  a  confirmatory  patent  for  1,017  acres  in  that  County,  as 
had  Patrick  Stafford  for  258  in  Clare.  In  the  following  year 
died,  at  a  very  advanced  age, '  Martha,  daughter  of  Mr.  Francis 
Stafford  (of  an  ancient  English  family)  and  wife  of  Sir 
Henry  O'Neill  of  Claneboys.  She  was  buried  at  Carrick- 
fergus.*  Of  Dean  Alexius  Stafford,  a  secular  priest  of  this 
County,  who  celebrated  mass  in  Christ  Church  daily  during 
King  James's  sojourn  in  Dublin,  mention  has  been  made 
before  {ante  p.  6).  He  was  one  of  the  Bepresentatives  of 
the  Borough  of  Bannow  in  the  Parliament  of  1689,  as  was 
the  above  Captain  Nicholas  Stafford  of  that  of  Fethard  in 
Wexford.     After  James's  flight  to  France,  Stafford, 


EARL  OP  tyeone's  intantby.  225 

Esq.,  was  one  of  his  Court  at  St.  Germalns.  The  Attainders 
of  1691  include  this  Nicholas,  described  as  of  Fethaid  and 
Eilcoran,  County  of  Wexford,  with'  Marcus  Stafford  of 
Gowran,  Peter  of  Fassetown,  and  John  of  Boscam  in  the 
same  County.  The  aforesaid  William  Stafford  appears  also 
to  have  forfeited  estates  in  Mayo,  on  which  sundry  mortgage 
claims  were  preferred  at  Chichester  House. 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  WINSTON. 

He  is  described,  in  the  inquisition  on  his  attainder,  as  '  of 
Ballycashin,  County  of  Waterford,'  and  in  the  patents  con- 
sequent upon  the  Acts  of  Settlement,  one  passed  in  1669  for 
a  small  allotment  in  Waterford,  to  Elizabeth  Winston  and 
William  her  son.  The  name  appears  to  be  a  corruption  firom 
Wynchedon  or  de  Wynchedown.  Kichard  de  Wyncedoun 
is  on  Irish  records  of  the  time  of  Edward  the  Second.  In 
1345  John  Wynchedon  was  one  of  three  leading  men 
assigned  to  treat  on  peace  with  Mc  Dermot  and  his  men, 
and  to  reclaim  them  to  friendship  ;*  the  name  was  then  also 
established  in  Cork.  In  1377  Richard  Wynchedon  was 
farmer  of  the  Royal  lands  in  that  County,  t  He  was  after- 
wards one  of  the  Justices  in  eyre  in  Munster,  while  John 
Wynchedon  was  appointed  to  several  offices  of  trust  in  the 
same  province,  and  he  was  also  one  of  the  Justices  in  eyre 
there  in  1407. 

*  Bot,  Pat  19  ^  20,  Edio.  8,  m  Cane  Hib. 
t  RoL  Clous,  51,  Edw,  3,  m  Cane,  Hib, 

VOL.  II.  Q 


226  KINO  JAMES'S  IRISH  ABHT  LIST. 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  *  RON  AN; 

The  O'Bonans  or  Bonaynes  were  a  Sept  long  settled  in 
Munster  and  parts  of  Leinster.  At  the  time  of  the  English 
Invasion,  two  of  the  name  presided  over  Irish  Bishoprics; 
Kinad  O^Bonan  over  Glendaloch,  and  Mel-Brendan  0*Bonan 
over  Kerry  (t.«.,  Ardfert).  The  Attainders  of  1642  present 
only  the  name  of  Owen  O'Bonayne  of  Ballybeg,  County  of 
Elildare;  while  in  1646,  Francis  O'Bonayne  of  Kilkenny  was 
one  of  the  Confederate  Catholics  there  assembled.  The 
Attainders  of  1691  include  the  above  Lieuteni(nt,  described 
as  of  Hilltown,  County  of  Waterford,  with  William  Bonayne 
of  EoUhadnett,  Philip  of  Carganassy,  James  of  BonayneV 
Court,  William  his  6on»  and  John  of  Youghal,  all  in  the 
County  Cork;  Thomas  of  Dungarvan,  with  James,  Stephen, 
and  Nicholas  of  Limerick.  At  the  Court  of  Claims  in  1700 
William  Bonayne  sought  and  was  allowed  the  fee  of  oertidn 
Youghal  and  County  of  Cork  estates,  which  had  been  for- 
feited by  James  Bonayne  of  Bonayne^s-Court;  and  at  same 
time  were  allowed  claims  of  Hamilton  Montgomery  and 
Grace,  otherwise  Bonayne,  his  wife,  and  those  of  Anstace, 
Elizabeth,  and  Margaret  Bonayne,  minors,  by  their  guardians, 
as  charged  on  said  estates.  James  Bonayne  abo  forfeited 
plots  and  tenements  in  Kinsale.  In  certain  forfeitures  of 
Nicholas  of  Youghal,  Amos  Strettell  and  Edward  Webb,  on 
behalf  of  themselves  and  all  the  Quakers  of  Ireland,  claimed 
a  remainder  for  years. 


EARL  OP  TTEONB'8  inpantby.  227 


ENSIGN  PETER  AYLWARD. 

This  fiuuilj  name  is  recorded  on  the  Irish  Bolls  from  the 
time  of  Edward  the  Second ;  and  is  located,  on  Ortelius'a 
Map,  in  the  Barony  of  Upper-third,  County  of  Waterford. 

In  1356  John  '  Eilleward  *  was  one  of  the  influential  gentry 
of  this  County,  who  elected  Peter,  son  of  Boger  le  Poer  to 
its  shrievalty,  and  he  was  subsequently  intrusted  with  some 
state  commissions.  On  his  death,  in  1355,  Andrew  'Eyl- 
ward,'  his  son  and  heir,  had  livery  of  his  estates,  as  also  of 
certain  other  lands  which  he  held  of  John,  son  of  Peter 
Eylward,  as  of  his  manor  of  *  Faileyge.'  In  1357  William 
Eylward  was  epipowered  to  collect  a  subsidy  off  the  barony 
of  Dunlost  in  the  County  of  Kildare.  In  1388  Bichard 
Eylward  died  seised  of  Falyk  (Faithlegg),  when  Bichard  his 
son  became  entitled  thereto.  In  1566  and  1577,  Peter 
Aylward  was  Mayor  of  Waterford,  as  was  Nicholas  Aylward 
in  1592,  Sir  Peter  Aylward  in  1627,  and  John  Aylward  in 
1650.  In  1602,  the  Lord  Deputy,  on  his  return  from 
Munster,  after  the  successful  termination  of  the  war  in  that 
Province,  calUng  at  Waterford,  knighted  there  Bichard 
Aylward  and  Edward  Gough,  **  two  ancient  and  well  deserving 
citizens.'**  A  confirmatory  patent  of  1666  to  Francis  Jones 
affected  to  convey  to  him  certain  lands  in  Wexford,  the 
estate  of  Bichard  Aylward ;  but  for  which  he,  Aylward,  had 
three  years  previously  obtained  a  decree  of  innocence.  The 
patent  therefore  saved  his  right,  but  left  him  to  his  remedy 

*  Pacata  Htbemia,  p.  503. 


d28  KIKO  jrAMB8*8  IBI8H  ABUT  IJ8T. 

in  kw.  In  1677  Peter,  son  of  John  Aylwmrd,  had  a  oon- 
finnatoiy  gisnt  of  2,483  acres  in  Cralway,  as  had  Nicholas 
for  911  in  the  same  county.  The  Attainder  of  the  Oflfeer 
nnder  present  consideration,  desciibes  him  as  *  I^ene '  Ayl- 
ward  of  Aylwardstown  Coonfy  Kilkenny  (of  which  pkMse 
Leonard  Aylward  was  proprietor  in  1626),  and  of  Faithl^^, 
County  of  Waterford.  John  Aylward  of  Bobinstown  in  the 
former  County,  is  the  onlyindiTidual  of  the  name  on  the  Boll 
of  Attainders  in  1642. 

Another  of  this  somame  was  Captain  in  Colonel  Edward 
Butler's  Infimtry. 


ENSIGN  FBANCIS  GABVAN. 

A  LnsxrnsKANT  John  Grarvan  was  one  of  those  '1649* 
Officers  who  obtained  an  adjudication  for  his  seryices,  soon 
after  the  Bestoration. 


KtraSNT'S  TSFASTBT. 


229 


REGIMENTS  OP  INFANTRY. 


COLOmSL  BICHABD  N170ENT. 


CcpitAu, 

-CtVuifdiowfi, 

EntSgm. 

Richard  Niig«nt| 

Nngent. 

-^Nugent. 

CdloneL 

i*— Nugent, 

TjrnSL 

Petit. 

Lieiit.-CoI. 

Tho.  Nugent. 

Grady. 

'Metzeeon.* 

Iffledy 

^— -Dalton. 

Burke. 

N««^ 

Geoghegaa. 

Fhmket. 

Ma.  Nugent. 

Patrick  Musett 

— ^DowdalL 

Deaae. 

Robert  Nugent. 

FaireU. 

ReiUy. 

— —  Deaae. 

*Dal&' 

Feigaa  FaxrelL 
Qeoifge  DowdaU. 

FanelL 

-^Nugent. 

ICatthew  Nugent 

2d0  KISQ  JAMS8*S  IRISH  ABUT  UST. 


CAPTAIN  PATKICK  MISSETT. 

This  suniame  was  estabfished  in  Ireiaiid  in  the  time  of 
Henry  the  Second^  when  de  Lacy  created  its  chie£^  Baron  of 
Lnne,  within  his  Palatinate  of  Meath,  with  landed  possesfflons, 
which  passed  by  the  marriage  of  three  co-hdresses  to  the 
families  of  Vemaill,  Lonndres,  and  Talbot.  William  de 
Miseett  was  one  of  the  witnesses  to  a  grant  of  lands  and 
churches  by  Archbishop  Laurence  O^Toole  to  the  Priory  of 
the  Holy  Trinity  in  DubEn.  At  the  close  of  the  fourteenth 
century  Walter  *  Meset '  was  one  of  the  influential  gentry, 
selected  to  assess  his  barony  to  a  state  subsidy.  The  Attain- 
ders of  1691  describe  the  above  Captain  as  of  Pluckstown  in 
Meath,  with  his  relative  James  Missett  of  the  same  locality; 
they  also  name  Bartholomew  of  Naas  and  Bobert  of  Boberts- 
town,  County  of  Ejldare,  the  former  a  Lieutenant,  and  the 
latter  an  Ensi^  in  Sir  Maurice  Eustace's  Li&ntry,  while 
another  of  this  name  was  a  Lieutaaant  in  Lord  Slane's.  Of 
the  Ejldare  Missetts  the  Attainders  of  1642  record  three, 
viz.,  James  and  Laurence  Missett  of  Casilemartin,  and  Gecarge 
of  Ealcullen  Bridge  in  that  County. 


LIEUTENANT HURLESTON. 

This  surname  does  not  appear  on  the  BoUs  of  Attainder, 
nor  has  it  been  found  on  any  Lish  records. 


mv      ui' 


nugbnt's  inpantey.  231 


ENSIGN PETIT. 

Soon  after  the  English  Inyodon  Hugh  de  Lacy,  the  great 
Palatine  of  Meath,  granted  to  William  Petit  a  most 
extensive  territory  round  Mullingar,  of  which  he  and  his 
successors  ranked  as  Palatine  Barons.  This  William  had 
also  a  patent  exempting  him  from  being  sued  any  where  but 
before  the  King.  In  1191  he  was  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland. 
In  1227  Balph  le  Petit  succeeded  to  the  See  of  Meath.     In 

1301 le  Petit  was  summoned  by  the  King  to  do  service 

against  the  Scots,  and  in  1319  Kobert  Petit  was  advanced  to 
the  Bishopric  of  Clonfert.  In  1373  Meyler  and  Laurence 
Petit  were  smnmoned  to  a  great  Council,  held  in  Dublin.  In 
1400  Alexander  Petit,  Bishop  of  Meath,  was  interred  at 
Trim.  In  Queen  Elizabeth's  Parliament  of  1585,  Redmond 
Petit  was  one  of  the  Representatives  of  MuUingar.  The 
forfeiting  Petits  in  1642  were  Garret,  Thomas,  William,  and 
Adam,  and  their  confiscations  then  comprised  3,000  Planta- 
tion acres.  Those  outlawed  in  1691  were  Edward  Petit  of 
Baltrasney,  Lucas  of  Irishtown,  and  Thomas  of  Taghmon, 
all  in  Westmeath. 


232 


EOrO  JMMWB'a  IRDH  ASXT  UST. 


BEGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 


JZHIOO  PBBSTON,  LOSD  YISOOUHT  GOSXARBTOK. 


liOid  GonuofCoOf 
ColoDd. 

Bidurd  EufCaee, 
CoL 


Ofhrv  Fitufwld, 
llajor. 


Hngfa  GMrUan. 


BmUfgti. 


UsttlMfr  BamewBlL 


DOIoB. 


Gcnld  FEtigenld. 


Canon. 


D' Arey. 

ReOIy. 

Stokes. 


TbcMntt  Gaitlatt. 


DflkD. 

JttDM«Hog«r.' 


Taafle. 


2^  t 


LOBD  gorbianston's  infantbt.  233 


COLONEL  JENICO  PRESTON,  LORD 

GORMANSTON. 

This  name  is  found  on  Irish  record  from  the  time  of  Edward 
the  Second,  when  the  name  of  Richard  Preston  appears  on 
a  commission.  In  1317  that  monarch  granted  to  William 
de  Prestoun,  burgess  of  Drogheda,  certain  premises  in  the 
County  of  Louth,  which  had  come  to  the  Crown,  by  the 
forfeiture  of  Hugh  de  Lacy,  Ejiight,  who  had  abetted  the 
Scottish  invasion.  Roger  de  Preston  was  a  Justice  of  the 
Common  Pleas  in  Ireland  in  1326,  and  was,  in  1358,  ad- 
vanced to  be  Chief  thereof.  In  the  previous  year,  it  was 
*'  agreed  and  granted  by  the  Lord  Justice,  Chancellor,  and 
Privy  Council  at  Dublin,  that  Robert  de  Preston,  son  of 
the  Judge,  and  then  (1357)  the  King's  Sergeant,  should, 
for  the  Eling's  benefit  and  profit,  accompany  the  Lord  Justice 
towards  the  parts  of  Leinster  and  Munster,  to  plead  and 
defend  the  pleas  of  the  Crown,  and  should  receive  four 
shillings  per  day  wages,  for  himself  and  a  man  and  horse 
at  arms."  This  individual  was  knighted  in  1361  by  Lionel, 
Duke  of  Clarence,  and  obtained  a  grant  in  fee  of  the  manor 
of  Gormanston.  He  was  likewise  Lord  of  Preston  in 
Lancashire,  fiUed  the  office  of  High  Chancellor  of  Ireland, 
and  was  summoned  to  the  parliaments  of  1374,  1377,  and 
1381,  and  to  a  Great  Council  in  1382.  In  1385  the  King 
granted  to  John  Breeden,  clerk,  the  custody  of  two-thirds 
of  the  estates  in  Louth  and  Meath,  of  which  Richard  de 
Preston  had  died  seised,  to  hold  during  the  minority  of  his 
son  and  heir,  Thomas,  with  the  reversion  of  the  remaining 


234  KINO  JAMBS'S  IRISH  ABMT  LIST. 

third  held  by  Margaret,  the  widow  of  said  Richard,  and  then 
the  wife  of  eaid  John  Breeden.  About  this  time  William 
Prestonn  was  a  Justice  in  eyre.  On  the  death  of  Christopher 
de  Prestonn,  chivaler,  in  1405,  the  King  committed  the 
custody  of  his  estates  to  Janico  Dartas,  Eiiight.  In  the 
last  year  of  the  reign  of  Henry  the  Fifth,  Christopher  de 
Preston,  with  eight  other  proprietors  of  the  County  Meath, 
was  appointed  to  assess  said  County,  in  twentieths,  hundreds, 
and  thousands,  for  a  hosting  of  marches,  to  be  set  *  to  repel 
the  Irish  enemies  or  English  rebels,  wherever  they  presume 
to  enter.'  A  writ,  of  1434,  redting,  that  the  town  of  Nobber, 
which  is  the  key  of  the  county  of  Meath,  had  been  then 
lately  burnt  by  Irish  enemies,  empowered  Christopher  Preston 
to  summon,  for  three  days  in  each  quarter  of  the  year,  during 
three  years,  all  the  domestics  and  labourers  witiiin  said  town 
and  within  the  barony  of  Moygallion,  to  labour  on  the  repairs 
and  re-construction  of  the  fosses  and  fortress  there.  In  1478, 
Sir  Robert  Preston,  great-gisndson  of  the  former  Sir  Robert 
of  1361,  was  constituted  Lord  Deputy,  and,  in  the  same  year, 
was  elevated  to  the  Peerage  by  the  title  of  Viscount  Gor- 
manston.  In  1494  he  held  a  Parliament  in  Drogheda,  and 
his  son,  Sir  William  Preston,  the  second  Viscount,  was  Lord 
Justice  of  Ireland  in  1515. 

In  1611,  Jenico,  Viscotmt  Oormanston,  had  a  grant  of 
sundry  premises  in  the  Counties  of  Carlow,  Dublin,  Kildare, 
and  Wicklow,  theretofore  possesions  of  religious,  houses. 
His  son,  Viscount  Nicholas,  on  the  breaking  out  of  the  dvil 
war  of  1641,  caused  the  resident  Noblemen  and  Gentry  of 
the  County  of  Meath  to  assemble  at  the  Hill  of  Crofty,  near 
Gormanston:  the  Lords  Fingal,  Slane,  Louth,  Dunsany, 
Trimleston  and  Netterville,  with  upwards  of  1,000  of  the 
leading    gentry,    responded   to    his    invitation.       See    ante 


LORD  gobmakston's  infaktbt.  235 

vol.  1,  p.  121.  He  was  accordingly  in  the  following 
year   attainted,   with    Robert    Preston,    also    described    as 

of  Gormanston,  Preston  of  Rogerstown,  County  of 

Meath,  James  of  Grangemore,  and  l^chard  of  Kilkekn, 
Coonty  of  Ejldare.  The  Assembly  of  the  Confederate 
Cactholics  at  Kilkenny  in  1646  was  attended  by  three  members 
of  this  House,  Thomas,  James,  and  Robert  Preston  of  Gor- 
manston. The  former,  styled  Colonel  Thomas,  had  been 
General  in  the  army  of  the  Confederate  Catholics  of  Ireland, 
and  was  created  Viscount  Tara  in  1642,  he  was  therefore, 
by  Cromwell's  Act  of  1652,  excepted  from  pardon  for  life 
and  estate,  together  with  Nicholas  Viscount  Gormanston. 

In  165S-4  Alderman  John,  son  of  Hugh  Preston  of 
Bolton,  in  Lancashire,  was  Mayor  of  Dublin ;  he  had  married 
Mary,  daughter  of  John  Morres,  of  Bolton,  by  whom  he  had 
seven  sons  and  three  daughters;  five  of  his  sons  and  two 
of  his  daughters  died  infants.  Phineas,  the  eldest,  survived 
and  married  Letitia  Hamond  of  Chertsey,  by  whom  he  had 
issue.  Samuel,  the  Mayor's  second  son,  married  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Theophilus  Sandford  of  Moyglare,  in  Meath, 
while  Mary,  the  eldest  and  .only  surviving  daughter  of  the 
Mayor,  became  the  wife  of  Nehemiah  Donnellan,  by  whom 
she  had  issue,  James  and  John.      The  Mayor  married  a 

second  wife,  Katherine,  daughter  of Ashbumham,  and 

relict  of  Sir  John  Sheriock,  knight,  by  whom  he  had  no  issue. 

His  third  wife  was  Anne,  daughter  of  Richard  Tighe  of 

Dublin,  by  whom  he  had  John  and  Nathaniel  Preston.  The 
Mayor  himself  died  at  Ardsallagh  in  1686,  and  was  buried 
in  Christ  Church,  Dublin.* 

In  1662   Sir   Francis    Hamilton   and   Sir  James  Cuffis 

♦  Funer€d  Entry,  R  21 


236  KING  JAM£S*S  IBI8H  ABMT  LIST. 

petitioned  the  Irish  Commons,  stating  that  they  had  been 
forcibly  ejected  from  the  town  and  hinds  of  Gormanston  by 
Jenico  Preston,  commonly  called  Lord  of  Gormanston;  and 
the  Speaker  was  thereupon  authorized  to  direct  the  Sheriff 
of  Meath  to  repair  to  the  house  of  Gormanston,  and  deliver 
to  the  petitioners  the  possession  thereof,  as  well  as  of  the 
lands  so  detained.  In  1669,  however,  this  Jenico  had  a 
confirmatory  patent  for  the  Castle,  town,  and  lands  of 
Gormanston,  with  5,425  acres  in  Meath,  1,244  in  Dublin, 
865  in  Leitrim,  and  65  in  Ejldare;  as  had  the  aforesaid 
Alderman  John  for  12,677  acres  in  Meath  and  Queen's 
County;  while  in  1677  Sir  George  Preston  had  an  eztenmve 
confirmatory  grant  of  fisheries  throughout  the  course  of  the 
Shannon.  In  1674  was  interred  in  St.  James's  Churchyard 
(once  the  chief  burial  ground  of  the  Catholic  aristocracy  of 
Ireland)  '  Thomas  Preston,  Viscount  Tara,  son  of  Anthony 
Preston,  Viscount  Tara,  who  was  son  of  Thomas  Lord  Tara, 
who  was  a  son  of  Viscount  Gormanston.'  The  aforesaid 
Viscount  Thomas  had  been  killed  three  days  previous  to  his 
interment,  by  Sir  Francis  Blundell,  of  the  King's  County, 
knight,  and  his  brothers;  whereby  this  title  became  extinct. 
The  Blundells  were  however  acquitted,  and  received  his 
Majesty's  pardon,*  but  Sir  Francis  was,  on  political  grounds, 
attainted  in  King  James's  Parliament  of  1689. 

In  February,  1685-6,  Lords  Gormanston  and  Ikerrin,  on 
behalf  of  themselves  and  several  other  Lords  and  Gentlemen, 
petitioned  for  reversals  of  their  &thers'  outlawries  imposed 
on  account  of  the  late  civil  war.  "  Several  of  the  petitioners," 
wrote  the  Earl  of  Clarendon  to  the  Earl  of  Sutherland,  '^  have 
served  the  Ejng  very  well  since,  and,  by  the  late  King's 

*  Lodgers  Peerage^  vdL  3,  p.  89. 


LOBD  oobmanston's  inpaktrt.  237 

fayour,  have  been  advanced  to  hope  titleB  and  be  restored 
to  their  estates ;  and  certainly  they  (as  many  as  are  alive  at 
least)  ought  to  be  restored  in  blood  as  well  as  to  their  estates. 
The  children  of  many  of  them  are  in  his  Majesty^s  service, 
and  therefore  may  deserve  to  partake  so  much  farther  of 
his  Majesty's  favour;  but  the  best  way  of  doing  it  will  be 
the  question,  for  it  is  a  case  of  greater  consequence  than 
may  at  first  appear."*  The  King  subsequently  assented 
to  Lords  Gormanston  and  Ikerrin  bringing  writs  of  error 
to  reverse  their  fathers*  outlawries,  and  directed  that  the 
cases  of  others  should  be  considered  at  Council,t  while  Lord 
Grormanston  was  himself  at  the  same  time  made  a  Privy 
Coundllor.  When,  however,  the  intentions  of  making  such 
applications  transpired,  caveats  were  immediately  entered 
against  granting  any  such  writs  of  reversal;  the  opposition 
naturally  arising  from  the  persons  who,  under  the  Acts  of 
Settiement,  were  in  actual  and  for  some  time  recognised 
possession  of  lands,  the  ancient  property  of  those  Lords,  &c.X 
In  November,  1688,  previous  to  King  James's  abdication, 
a  Lord  Preston  was  his  Secretary  of  State;  and  in  the 
January  following,  after  that  Monarch's  flight,  that  Nobleman 
received  a  letter  from  him,  which  led  to  subsequent  suspicions 
of  his  being  engaged  with  Lord  Clarendon  and  others  in 
a  conspiracy  for  a  counter-revolution  in  favour  of  James, 
for  which  he  was  afterwards  arraigned,  tried,  and  condemned.§ 
The  noble  Colonel  of  this  Regiment  sat  in  the  Parliament 
of  Dublin,  while  another  Jenico  Preston  was  a  Lieutenant 
in  the  Earl  of  Tyrone's  Li&ntry.  When  King  James 
meditated  advancing  towards  Dundalk,  soon  aft:er  his  arrival 

*  Singer's  Correspondence  of  Lord  Clarendon^  vol.  I,  p.  267. 
t  Idem,  p.  399.    t  Idem,  p.  487.    §  Idem,  v.  2,  pp.  21 1,251, 319,  n.  and  331. 


238  KINO  James's  ibish  askt  ust. 

in  Dublin,  "  a  brigade  of  Guards,  consisting  of  two  battalions, 
together  with  Gonnanston's  and  Creagh's  S^pments,  each 
of  which  made  a  good  battalion,  came  to  the  camp,  about  the 
Bridge  of  Affime,  by  eleven  o'clock  at  night,  and  the  rest 
next  morning,  before  noon*  This  Regiment  afterwards 
fought  at  the  battle  of  Cavan^  at  the  Boyne,  at  Limerick, 
and  at  Aughrim.  In  1691  Lord  Gonnanston  was  attainted 
on  five  Liquisitions.  At  the  Court  of  Clidms  in  1700 
Anthony  Preston,  'called  Lord  Viscount  Gormanston,'  and 
Mary  his  wife,  claimed  and  were  allowed  the  benefit  of  a 
trust  term  for  500  years,  created  to  secure  a  charge  of  £3,000 
for  said  Mary,  and  a  remainder  in  tail  for  Anthony,  off 
Lord  Gt>rmanston's  forfeited  estates.  A  Nidiolas  Preston 
also  claimed  and  was  allowed  a  remiunder  for  his  life,  as  was 
Captain  Bobert  Preston  a  remiunder  in  tail,  expectant  upon 
several  other  remainders  in  being,  as  attaching  to  said 
estates:  while  James  Butler,  Esq.,  and  Margaret,  Lady 
Viscountess  Gonnanston,  his  wife,  claimed  in  her  right  an 
annuity  of  £500  per  annum^  with  an  anrear  of  £3,400  as 
due  thereoff.  The  aforesaid  Bobert  Preston  had  a  preyioua 
grant,  in  1696,  of  the  office  of  one  of  the  Pursuiyants  of  State. 


[LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  BICHARD  EUSTACE.] 

This  officer  does  not  appear  on  the  present  Army  List, 
ihe  appointment  having  been  made  subsequent  to  its  issue. 
The  name  is  here  inserted  from  Dr.  King^s  Appendix.  He 
was  of  Barretstown,  in  the  County  of  Dublin;  while  on  the 
British  Museum  Copy  of  the  Army  List,  Peter  Bamewall 
is  set  down  as  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  this  Regiment. 

*  darkens  Mtm.  of  James  11,^  v.  2,  p.  379. 


LOBD  aORMAN8TON*8  IN7ANTBT.  239 


CAPTAIN  HUGH  AND  ENSIGN  THOMAS 

GARTLAN. 

This  name  does  not  appear  on  either  of  the  great  National 
Attainders. 


CAPTAIN HOLMES. 

Neitheb  is  this  surname  recorded  in  the  Attainders.  Lieu- 
tenants Alexander  and  Ensigns  James  and  William  Holmes 
are  named  on  the  Bolls  of  Adjudications  for  the  '  1649 ' 
Officers. 


LIEUTENANT  DUNNE. 

Of  thii  surname  were  attainted  in  1642  John  Dunn,  senior, 
of  Athy,  and  Andrew  Dunn  of  Bathmore,  in  Ejldare,  with 
James  Dunn  of  Trim.  The  outlaws  of  1691  were  Terence 
Dunne  of  Ballyiiakeel,  Daniel  and  Francis  Dupne  of  Tenna- 
hinch,  both  in  the  Queen^s  County ;  Arthur  of  Ballyferbole, 
and  John  of  Strambo  in  the  same  County,  with  Patrick  of 
TuUyfiuis  in  Wicklow,  and  Thomas  of  Cork ;  one  of  those, 
most  probably  the  last,  was  a  Lieutenant  in  Lord  Kilmallock's 
Infantry,  while  two  others  of  the  name  were  Captains  in 
Colonel  Charles  Moore's. 

In  1614  Barnard  Dunn  died  seised  of  Brittas,  one  Castle, 
with  various  townlands  in  the  Queen's  County ;  Barnard 
Dunn,  junior,  was  his  son  and  heir,  then  aged  24  years  and 
unmarried.     Some  years  after  a  Barnabas  Dunn,  of  Ballynar 


240  KING  James's  ibish  abmt  list. 

kill,  having  died  seised  of  sundiy  other  lands  with  rectorial 
tithes  and  glebes  in  sidd  County,  Charles  Dunn  of  Brittas 
succeeded  thereto.  The  0*Dunnes  were  in  truth  an  ancient 
Sept  of  Hy  Riagain,  a  territory  comprising  in  area  the 
present  Barony  of  Tinnahinch  (as  stated  anUj  p.  94),  where 
the  Four  Masters  make  frequent  mention  of  their  Chiefs. 
This  ancient  Irish  surname  has  been  however  latterly  not 
unfrequently  anglicised  into  Doyne. 


LIEUTENANT  AND  ENSIGN  STOKES. 

This  surname  does  not  appear  upon  the  Boll  of  Attainders 
of  the  period;  while  another  Stokes  was  a  Lieutenant  in  Lord 
Slane^s  In&ntry.  Nicholas  'Stockes'  of  Balheary,  in  the 
County  Dublin,  was  a  forfeiting  proprietor  in  1642.  Sir 
Bernard  Burke  in  his  Landed  Gentry  has  a  memoir  of  the 
fiunily  of  Stokes  of  Tndee,  in  which  he  speaks  of  its  founder 
in  Ireland  as  an  officer,  who  came  from  Devonshire  to 
Limerick  in  the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth.  ^  BGlb  son,*  writes 
Sir  Bernard,  '  married  in  1622  a  daughter  of  O'Connell  of 
Iveragh,  by  whom  he  had  a  son,  Edward  Stokes,  who  married 

a  daughter  of  Lacy  of  Ballingarry;*    and  as  those 

Limerick  Lacys  are  herein  shown  to  have  been  devoted 
adherents  of  the  Stuarts,  it  seems  reasonable  to  infer  that 
dther  of  the  officers  who  so  appear  on  this  List  was  a  son 
of  said  Edward,  from  whom  has  lineally  descended  a  numerous 
existing  line,  of  which  Greoi^e  Day  Stokes  of  Mount-Hawk, 
County  Kerry,  is  the  eldest  son.  One  of  his  brothers,  John 
Day  Stokes,  has  served  twenty-eight  years  in  India  in  various 
military,  dvil,  and  political  offices,  including  the  command 


LOBD  oobmanston's  infantbt.  241 

of  a  division  of  the  Madras  army,  was  Military  Secretaiy 
to  the  Governor-General,  Commissioner  in  the  Nizam's 
territories,  and  during  several  years  was  British  Representa- 
tive at  the  Court  of  Mysore.  His  brother,  Oliver  Day  Stokes, 
is  a  Captain  on  the  half  pay  of  her  Majesty's  Madras  army, 
and  another  brother,  Patrick  Day,  is  a  Major  and  Staff 
Officer  in  the  Queen's  service.  Fifteen  nephews  of  these 
gallant  officers  hold  commissions  in  the  British  Army  and 
Navy — ^a  thoroughly  military  &mily. 


ENSIGN  MERBYMAN. 
Nothing  worthy  of  note  has  been  ascertained  of  his  &mily. 


ENSIGN HARRIS. 

Ak  Edward  Harris,  described  as  of  Clonligea,  in  Wexford, 
was  attainted  in  1691,  as  was  William  Harris  of  Ballybola, 
in  the  same  County. 

Before  this  era  Sir  Edward  Harris,  knight,  theretofore 
Chief  Justice  of  Mimster,  was  in  1625  appointed  one  of  the 
Judges  of  the  King's  Bench  in  Ireland ;  subsequent  to  whom 
flourished  Walter  Harris,  the  able  editor  and  continuer  of 
Sir  James  Ware's  valuable  contributions  to  the  civil  and 

ecclesiastical   history   of  this   coimtry. A   Lieutenant 

Edward  Harris,  one  of  the  *  1649 '  Officers,  was  probably  the 
Edward  of  Clonligea  attainted  as  above. 

VOL.  II.  B 


242 


KING  JAMES  S  IRISH  ABHY  LIST. 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 


COLONEL  HENBT  DILLON. 


Capt€nns. 
The  Colonel 
Walter  Burke, 

Lientenant-ColoneL 
John  Morgan, 

Major. 
Luke  Dillon. 
Theobald  Dillon. 
Thomaa  Daly. 
Edward  Fitzgerald. 
Hugh  O'DonnelL 
Edmund  Reynolds. 
William  Bourke. 
Lucas  PowelL 
Thomas  Dillon. 

Burke. 

James  Lally 
Patrick  M'Gawley. 
Bobert  Dillon. 
Christopher  Dillon. 
George  Browne. 
Walter  Blake. 
William  Brabazon. 
Hugh  M'Dermott 
John  D*Alton. 
Terence  M'Donough. 
John  Dillon. 
Bobert  Fitzgerald. 
John  D^Alton. 
Walter  PhilUps. 
Gerald  Dillon. 


lAeutenanti. 
Hubert  Dillon. 
Paul  Rutledge. 

Dillon. 

Francis  Martin. 
Bryan  O^Connor. 
Peter  Daly. 
Murrough  Melaghlin. 
Terence  Sweeny. 
Morgan  Reynolds. 
Patrick  Bonrke. 
Alexander  Plunkett. 
Thomas  Dillon. 
—  Rorke. 
Gerald  Lally. 
Edmnnd  TyrrelL 
Christopher  Dillon. 
Bartholomew  Dillon. 
Thady  Naughton. 
Valentine  Blake. 
Gilbert  Talbot. 
Richard  Fitzgerald. 
Luke  SheilL 
Thady  M*Donough. 
Miles  Bourke. 
Robert  Fox. 
Richard  D'Alton. 
James  Lynam. 


JSnsiffru. 
Edmund  DOlon. 
Thomas  Dolphin. 

Dillon. 

Bryan  M'Dermott. 
Thomas  Dillon 
John  MoUoy. 
Redmond  Fitzgerald. 
Michael  Ronrke. 
Ferdinando  Reynolds. 
Edmond  Daly. 
Edmund  DowelL 
Christopher  Dilkm. 

Daly. 

Thomas  Costello. 
Philip  M'Gawl^. 
PhelimHart 
Hubert  Farrell. 
Rowland  *Bourk.* 
Nicholas  Lynch. 
Miles  LaughluL 
Michael  M'Dermott. 
Andrew  D'Alton. 
Cornelius  M'Donough. 
Richard  Dillon. 
Philip  Fox. 
John  D'Alton. 
Myles  Swyny. 
Charles  Costello. 


The  Colonel,  Lieut-Colonel,  and  Major  as  above,  with 

D'Alton,  Adjutant; Dolphin,  'Maai  des  LogU: 

DUlon,  G&apXmn; Deignan,  Ckkrwrgwn, 

Qficen  a  Ja  8uiUe 
DiUon,  -^—  Lynch, Maguize,  and  -^—  Flaherty. 


dillon'8  dtfantby.  243 


COLONEL  HENRY  DILLON. 

This  name  is  of  record  in  Lreland  from  the  time  of  the 
Invasion,  and  a  portion  of  Western  Meath  and  Annalj, 
afterwards  styled  '  the  Dillons'  country/  was,  together  with 
the  manor  of  Kilkenny  West  (theretofore  forfeited  by  Hugh 
de  Lacy),  and  the  fishery  and  weirs  of  Athlone,  assured  by 
patent  from  the  Crown  to  Henry  '  Dilloun'  during  pleasure: 
he  was  at  the  same  time  constituted  Constable  of  Athlone, 
and,  in  two  years  after,  was  empowered  to  treat  with  and 
reform  the  Irish  felons  within  the  liberty  of  Trim.  His 
descendants  were  Palatine  Barons  of  Kilkenny- West,  and 
subsequently  ennobled  in  the  Irish  Peerage  as  Earls  of 
Boscommon,  Viscounts  Dillon  and  Barons  of  Clonbrock, 
severally. 

In  the  sixteenth  century  the  name  is  frequentiy  projected 
on  the  Boll  of  judidal  officers  in  Ireland.  In  1532  Sir 
Bartholomew  Dillon  was  appointed  Chief  Justice  of  the 
King's  Bench.  In  1554  Bobert  Dillon,  of  Newtown,  near 
Trim,  was  named  a  Justice  of  the  Queen's  Bench,  and 
advanced,  in  1559,  to  the  Chief  Justiceship  of  the  Common 
Pleas.  In  1560  Bichard  Dillon  of  Proutestown,  County  of 
Meath,  became  a  Justice  of  the  Queen's  Bench;  and  in  1570 
Sir  Lucas  Dillon  was  Chief  Baron  of  the  Exchequer.  In 
1581  Bobert  Dillon  of  Biverston,  in  Westmeath,  was  second 
Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas.  He  died  in  1597,  leaving 
Bartholomew  his  son  and  heir,  then  aged  twenty-four  and 
married ;  who  died  in  1633,  leaving  Andrew  Dillon,  his  son 
and  heir,  then  aged  twenty-six  years.  In  1590  Gerald 
Dillon  was  a  Justice  of  the  Queen's  Bench;  and,  in  two 


244  KING  JAM£8*S  IBISH  ABlfT  LIST. 

years  after,  Thomas  I>ilIon»  theretofore  Chief  Justice  of 
Connaught,  was  appointed  a  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas. 
In  1628  died  Edmund  Dillon,  seised  of  Ardsghill  and  other 
lands  in  Longford,  leaving  Bichard,  his  son  and  heir,  then 
aged  thirty  and  married ;  and  in  1638  Bobert,  Lord  Dillon, 
was  one  of  the  Keepers  of  the  Great  Seal. 

From  the  above  Henry  '  Dilloun*  of  Elilkenny- West  sprang 
Sir  Theobald,  the  founder  of  the  noble  house  of  Costello- 
Gallen,  who,  in  1608,  had  a  grant  from  the  Crown  of  the 
manor,  castles,  and  lands  of  Killeniaghny;  the  castle  and 
lands  of  Ballynekilly ;  the  manor,  castle,  and  lands  of  Port- 
leek  ;  the  castle,  town,  and  lands  of  Ballyyolan  in  Westmeath ; 
the  manor,  castle,  and  lands  of  GhJly;  the  manor,  castle,  and 
lands  of  Castlemore;  the  castles,  towns,  and  lands  of  Elilcole- 
man,  Bunfadda,  BaUindooe,  Monyn,  BaUaghlahane,  Bathal- 
vine,  &c.,  in  the  Counties  of  Boscommon  and  Mayo.  About 
the  same  time  Bobert  Dillon  of  Cannarstown  passed  patent 
for  half  of  *  Lissoy,'  the  castles  of  Annagh  and  Lisdossan, 
Drumrany,  Ejlcoman,  &c.,  all  with  extensive  landed  appur- 
tenances, situate  in  the  County  of  Westmeath,  to  hold  in 
capite.  This  Bobert  died  previous  to  1611,  when  it  was 
found  by  Liquisition  that  he  had  died  seised  of  the  castle  of 
Fowlerstown,  half  the  townland  of  *  Lissoy,*  a  ruined  castle 
at  Waterston,  the  adjacent  island  of  Lichony  in  Loughree ; 
a  castle  at  Annagh;  another  at  Carrick,  near  Annagh; 
castles  at  Lisdossan,  Killenedreagh  and  Ardnegreagh;  at 
Killenquin  and  lower  Baskin,  with  a  most  extenidve  tract  of 
country,  much  of  which  he  held  under  said  Theobald  Dillon. 
In  1618  died  Peter  Dillon  of  Gorimore,  leaving  Maurice  his 
son  and  heir,  then  aged  twenty-four  and  married* 

In  1619  died  Bichard  Dillon  of  Proudston,  seised  of 
various  premises  in  the  barony  of  Serine,  leaving  Gerald  his 


DlLLON^S  INFAKTBT.  245 

son  and  heir  then  aged  twenty-seven  and  married.  In  the 
same  year  died  another  Gerald,  styled  of  Balgelth,  leaving 
James  his  son  and  heir,  then  aged  twenty-two  and  married. 
At  the  dose  of  that  year  Geoi^e  Dillon  died,  seised  of  yarious 
premises  at  Stameen,  also  in  Meath;  leaving  Luke  his  son 
and  heir,  then  aged  forty-seven  and  unmarried.  In  1623 
died  Christopher  Dillon  of  Ballylaughan,  Ejiight,  Luke  his 
son  and  heir  being  then  aged  thirteen  years;  and  in  1621-2 
the  above  Sir  Theobald  was  ennobled  by  the  title  of  Viscount 
of  Costello-Grallen,  within  three  years  after  which  he  died  '  at 
an  advanced  age,  and  leaving,"  says  Sir  Bernard  Burke,  '  so 
numerous  a  progeny  that  he  assembled  at  one  time  in  his 
house  at  KiUne&ghney  above  a  hundred  of  his  descendants.' 
Of  this  offspring  it  may  be  mentioned  tiiat  [James,  his  eighth 
8(m,  was  Lieutenant-General  and  Governor  of  Connaught  and 
Athlone  for  the  Boyal  cause;  he  was  therefore  proscribed 
under  the  Usurpation,  whereupon  he  took  refuge  on  the 
Continent,  and  is  recorded  to  have  served  as  a  Major-General 
in  the  French  Army  as  well  as  in  that  of  Spain.  Upon  the 
Bestoration  a  pension  of  ^00  per  annmn  was  assigned  to 
him.]  Sir  Theobald  was  succeeded  in  his  title  by  his  grand- 
son and  heir,  Lucas,  the  second  Viscount,  who  died  in  1629 ; 
when,  as  a  manuscript  in  T.  C.  D.  records,  his  remains  were 
conveyed  in  a  coach  from  Kilne&ghny,  where  he  died,  to 
Athlone,  in  whose  Abbey  he  was  interred.  His  only  son, 
Theobald,  the  third  Viscount,  died  an  infant,  whereupon 
the  titie  reverted  to  his  Uncle,  Thomas,  the  fourth  Viscount. 
In  1626  Peter  Dillon,  of  Bellaneloughduff,  died,  leaving 
Henry,  his  son  and  heir,  then  aged  twenty-two  and  unmarried. 
In  two  years  after  Edmund  Dillon  of  Ardnegreagh  died, 
leaving  Bichard  his  son  and  heir,  then  aged  thirty  and  married ; 
as  did  Bedmond  Dillon  of  Ardbarra  in  1629,  leaving  Peter 


246  KINO  JAMES'S  IRISH  ABUT  LIST. 

his  son  and  heir,  then  aged  forty  and  married.  This  Peter 
died  in  the  following  year,  leaving  Bobert  his  son  and  heir, 
then  aged  fifteen.  Bobert  Dillon,  of  Hilton,  in  Meath,  died 
in  1634,  leaving  John,  his  son  and  heir,  then  aged  sixteen 
and  unmarried;  and  in  the  following  year  William  Dillon, 
of  Lissenoide,  died,  leaving  Henry  his  son,  then  aged  thirty 
and  married,  who  died  in  1636,  leaving  WiUiam  Dillon  his 
son  and  heir,  then  aged  eleven  years.  In  1638  died  another 
William  Dillon,  of  Boroesse,  leaving  Edmund  his  son  and 
heir,  then  aged  twenty-one  and  unmarried,  as  did  Bedmond 
Dillon,  also  styled  of  Boroesse,  leaving  Edward  his  son  and 
heir,  then  aged  thirty-eight  and  married;  and  in  September, 
1640,  Hobert  Dillon  died  seised  of  the  Castles  of  Eillen- 
eninyn,  Crevagh,  &c.,  John,  his  son  and  heir,  being  then 
aged  43  years.  This  enumeration  of  obits  has  been  given 
in  deference  to  honours  of  this  name  yet  in  abeyance. 

To  return  to  Thomas,  the  fourth  Viscount  Dillon,  he  was 
attainted  in  1642,  and  driven,  with  his  four  sons,  into  exile  on 
the  Continent,  where  Charles,  his  eldest  son  and  then  heir 
apparent  (but  who  died  before  his, father),  is  related  to  have 
been  a  Greneral  Officer  in  the  service  of  France  as  well  as  of 
Spain,  and  to  have  been  Governor  of  Toumay,  in  Flanders. 
On  the  Bestoration,  Viscount  Thomas  returned  to  his  native 
country,  when  he  was  himself  restored  to  his  extensive  estates 
in  the  Counties  of  Mayo,  Boscommon,  and  Westmeath.  In 
March,  1641,  died  James,  the  first  Earl  of  Boscommon, 
leaving  seven  sons — ^Bobert,  Lucas,  Thomas,  Christopher, 
George,  John,  and  Patrick ;  amongst  whom,  and  their  issue 
male,  the  Earldom  has  since  descended  until  the  death  of  the 
last  Earl,  whence  proofs  of  succession  have  hitherto  failed  to 
be  established.  The  Attainders  of  1642  include,  with  the 
aforesaid  Viscount  Thomas,  eighteen  others  of  this  name,  viz., 


DILLON'S   INFANTBT.  247 

Andrew  Dillon  of  Biverston,  William  of  Flintstown,  Henry 
of  Betaghstown,  Thomas  and  Michael  of  Bathoath,  in  Meath ; 
Dermot  Dillon  of  Longtown,  in  Kildare ;  Luke  of  Kilhugh, 
in  Dublin  County;  and  Francis  of  Balljmorris,  in  Wicklow. 
Of  the  Confederate  Catholics  assembled  at  Kilkenny  in  1646, 
&c,y  were  Edmund  and  John  Dillon  of  Streamstown,  James 
of  Clonegassel,  and  Lucas  of  Lough  Glyn.  Those  excepted 
from  pardon  for  life  and  estate,  by  Cromwell's  Act  of  denun- 
ciation, were  James  Dillon  of  Boscommon,  and  James  Dillon, 
brother  of  the  Viscount  of  Costello-Grallen. 

The  grants  to  members  of  this  noble  family  after  the 
restoratian  were: — ^In  1666,  to  Captain  Greorge  DiUon,  of 
3,414  acres  in  Kerry ;  to  Captain  Arthur  Dillon,  granting 
Lismullen  and  other  lands  in  Meath  and  Louth.  In  1669 
Colonel  Cary  Dillon  passed  patents,  partly  in  trust  for  the 
1649  officers  and  yet  more  for  himself,  for  extensive  estates  in 
Clare,  Galway,  Boscommon,  Kilkenny,  Tipperary,  Meath, 
and  Eling's  County.  In  1677  Bichard  Dillon  had  a  grant  of 
460  acres  in  Galway  and  Boscommon,  as  had  Gerald  Dillon 
of  3,008  in  Mayo,  Boscommon,  and  Gralway.  In  1679 
Francis  Dillon  acquired  421  acres  in  Boscommon  ;  John 
Dillon,  in  1680,  passed  patent  for  Lisheane  (Lissian),  204 
acres,  in  Mayo.  In  this  latter  year,  Theobald  Dillon,  of 
Lough  Glyn,  William  Brabazon,  and  Ellis  Dillon,  otherwise 
Brabazon,  had  a  grant  of  4,723  acres  in  Boscommon  and  Mayo, 
to  hold  to  the  use  of  sidd  Theobald  and  Ellis  for  their  lives ; 
remainder  to  their  first  son  in  tail  male,  with  similar  remainders 
in  tail  to  their  other  sons,  down  to  their  tenth ;  remainder  then 
to  Theobald  Dillon,  of  Kilmore,  for  life ;  reminder  to  his 
eldest  son,  Bobert,  in  tail  male ;  similar  remainders  in  tail  to 
this  Theobald's  other  sons  down  to  the  tenth ;  remainder  to  his 
right  heirs.     In  1683  James  Dillon,  heir  of  Luke  Dillon,  had 


248  KING  JAH£8*S  IBISH  ARKT  LIST. 

a  grant  of  Dangan-o'Beme,  with  1,168  acres  in  Boscommon. 
The  Theobald,  here  styled  of  Kilmore,  was  the  seventh 
Viscount  Dillon,  having  succeeded  to  the  title  in  1682,  and 
he  appears  on  this  Army  List  (as  before)  the  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  of  Lord  Clanricarde's  Infimtry.  He  raised  two 
fiegiments  for  King  James's  service  ;  one, — ^that  under 
present  consideration, — commanded  by  the  above  Colonel 
Henry  Dillon,  his  eldest  son  and  successor  in  the  title,  one  of 
the  Representatives  of  the  County  of  Westmeath  in  tiie 
Parliament  of  1689,  and  afterwards  Grovemor  of  Galway. 
The  second  Regiment  so  raised  by  Viscount  Theobald  was 
put  under  the  command  of  his  second  son,  the  Honourable 
Arthur  Dillon,  and  was  that  afterwards  assigned  to  form  pert 
of  Mountcashel's  Brigade. 

Li  1686  Dillon,  Lord  Roscommon,  togetiier  with  Tyr- 
connel,  the  Lords  Limerick  and  Grormanston,  Justin  Mac 
Cartie,  Richard  Hamilton,  Nicholas  Furcel,  and  others,  signed 
a  proclamation  of  amnesty,  as  emanating  ftom  the  Council 
Chamber ;  whereby  it  was  declared  ^'  that  none  of  his  Majesty's 
subjects  of  this  Kingdom  shall  at  any  time  hereafter  be  sued, 
vexed,  or  disquieted,  either  by  indictment,  information  or 
otherwise,  in  his  Majesty^s  name  or  at  his  suit,  for  or  by 
reason  of  any  treasonable,  seditious,  or  other  words  whatsoever 
spoken,  or  that  may  be  pretended  to  have  been  spoken  by  any 
of  them,  before  the  decease  of  his  late  Majesty  and  his  now 
Majesty's  accession  to  the  crown.*  (This  Lord  Roscommon, 
however,  it  is  to  be  remarked,  was,  at  his  own  request, 
presented  in  December,  1688,  by  the  Earl  of  Clarendon  to 
the  Prince  of  Orange  at  the  Prince  of  Denmark's,!  and  he 
was  accordingly  attainted  in  King  James's  Parliament  of  the 

*  Singer'*  Carr€sp,j  toL  1,  p.  519.  f  Idem,  r.  2,  p.  287. 


DILLON'S  INFANTRY.  249 

folIonHng  jear,  with  Isabella,  Countess  Dowager  of  Boscom* 
mon,  and  Sir  John  Dillon  of  Lismullen.) 

In  December,  1686,  Lord  Clarendon  wrote  to  the  Earl  of 
Sunderland,  in  reference  to  filling  a  vacancy  on  the  Irish 
Bench,  and  those  competent  to  fill  it: — ''There  are  Mr. 
Ghurret  Dillon,  Mr.  Nangle  (Nagle),  and  Mr.  Browne;  these 
three  are  Boman  Catholics.  Mr.  Nangle  I  know  has  no 
mind  to  be  a  Judge,  nor  I  believe  will  Mr.  Dillon,  he  being 
in  very  great  practice;  he  is  a  very  honest  gentleman,  and  it 
is  not  fit  for  me  to  omit  the  best  men."*  This  latter  was 
raised  to  a  Serjeantcj  at  the  close  of  the  ensuing  year.  In 
the  Parliament  of  1689,  Theobald,  Viscount  Dillon,  of 
Costello-Gallen,  sat  amongst  the  Peers,  whilst  of  the  Com- 
mons were  John  Dillon,  one  of  the  Bepresentatives  of  the 
Borough  of  Boscommon ;  this  Honorable  Colonel  Henry,  one 
of  those  for  Westmeath;  and  the  aforesaid  Prime-Serjeant 
Greiald  for  the  Borough  of  MuUingar.  It  may  be  here 
mentioned  that  the  above  Theobald,  Viscount  Dillon,  married 
Mary,  a  daughter  of  Sir  Henry  Talbot  of  Templeogue, 
County  of  Dublin,  and  was  afterwards  attainted;  but  the 
outlawry  was  reversed  in  &vour  of  his  son  and  successor, 
Henry,  the  eighth  Viscount,  the  Officer  under  present  con- 
sideration.    Theobald's    second  son,    Arthur,  entered    the 

military  service  in  France,  as  hereinafter  noticed. rThe 

above  named  Prime-Serjeant  Dillon  was  seised  in  fee  of  divers 
estates  in  the  Coimties  of  Mayo  and  Boscommon,  which  he 
devised  in  1690  to  Theobald,  his  then  only  son,  in  tail-male, 
with  remainders ;  but  he  was  himself  attainted.  He  followed 
£ing  James  to  France,  where  he  had  two  other  sons,  James 
and  Claude,  who  both  died  there,  intestate  and  unmarried 

*  Smger^s  Ckirresp.^  v.  2,  p.  122. 


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250  KING  James's  fRiSH  abmt  list. 

Theobald,  the  aforesaid  eldest  son,  however,  survived  his 
father,  continuing  to  be  a  Catholic  until  his  death.  In  1720 
he  married  Mary,  eldest  daughter  of  Bichard  Malone,  hj 
whom  he  had  Nicholas,  his  only  son,  and  three  daughters. 
Theobald  lived  to  1763,  his  son  Nicholas  being  then  with  him 
in  France,  but  he,  on  his  father's  death,  which  occurred  in 
that  year,  came  over  and  conformed ;  in  four  years  after  which 
he  died  intestate,  unmarried,  and  without  issue.* 

Besides  the  sixteen  Dillons  in  this  Regiment,  Gerald  Dillon 

was  a  Captain  in  Lord  Abercom's  Horse;  Dillon  a 

Comet  in  Sir  NdU  O'Neill's;  in  Lord  Gormanston's  Lifantry 

Dillon  was  a  Lieutenant;  another  a  Captain  in  Lord 

Gtdway's ;  in  Colonel  Oliver  O'Grara's,  Charles  Dillon  was  an 
Ensign;  while  Lord  Dillon  was  Lieutenant-Colonel  in  the 
Earl  of  Clanricarde's  Infantry.  In  July,  1691,  after  the 
battle  of  Aughrim,  the  latter  was  Governor  of  Galway.  On 
the  26th  of  that  month  he  capitulated,  ^^  marching  out,"  says 
Story,  "  with  the  Irish  garrison,  having  not  above  2,300  men, 
and  those  but  indifferently  armed  and  worse  clothed.''  It 
may  be  added  that  a  Major  Dillon  was  one  of  the  hostages 
given  by  that  Governor  for  the  due  performance  of  the 
Articles  on  the  Irish  side.f  On  the  9th  of  September 
following,  Lough-Glyn  Castle,  commanded  by  Colonel 
Theobald  Dillon,  surrendered  to  the  summons  of  King 
William's  party ;  and  in  the  memorable  month  of  October 
following.  Colonel  Garret  Dillon,  the  Prime-Serjeant,  was 
one  of  the  executing  parties  to  the  civil  Articles  of  Limerick. 

The  Attainders  of  1691  record  the  names  of  Arthur, 
Henry,  Lucas,  and  Christopher  Dillon  of  Killen&ghney; 
Gerald  and  Theobald  Dillon  of  Portlick;  John  Dillon  of 

*  Pleadings  m  Chancery.  f  SardimarCs  GiUway^  p.  162. 


DILLON'S  INFANTBT.  251 

Boscommon;  Arthur,  Christopher,  and  James  Dillon  of 
Lough-Glyn;  James  Dillon  of  Lissian;  Tobias  of  Ballydrum- 
nej;  Robert  of  Flintstown;  Edward  of  TuUaghanageeragh ; 
Peter  and  Thomas  of  BaUy-CloghdufFe ;  Hubert  and  Kedmond 
of  Walterstown;  Robert  of  Tully;  Richard  and  John  of 
Leccaskin ;  Peter  of  KiUininny ;  Henry  (but/)  of  Ardbuck- 
ney ;  Bartholomew  of  CalUaghtown  ;  Peter  of  Hybaskin ; 
Richard,  son  of  Thomas,  of  Athlone ;  Martin  of  Huntstown 
in  the  County  Dublin ;  Edward  Dillon  of  Mullins ;  Edward 
Dillon,  Junior,  of  Drumrany;  Walter  of  Killoman;  Richard 
and  William  of  Lissenode ;  Honor,  relict  of  John  Dillon, 
with  many  others.  At  the  Court  of  Claims  in  1700,  Red- 
mund  Dillon,  a  minor,  claimed  and  was  allowed  a  remidnder 
in  tail,  after  the  decease  of  Margery  Dillon,  in  various  lands 
in  the  Baronies  of  Ealkenny  West  and  Rathconrath,  forfeited 
by  Pierce  Dillon;  while  said  Margery  claimed  her  jointure 

thereoff. ^Edmund  DiUon  was  allowed  a  reversion  in  fee 

in  Mayo  lands,  forfdted  by  Christopher  Dillon ;  off  which 
Margaret  Dillon,  his  widow,  sought  and  was  allowed  her 
dower;  while  Richard  Bourk  and  Mary  Bourk,  alias  Dillon, 
also  obtained  a  certain  amount  of  jointure  off   the  same 

property. Gfarret    Dillon    was    allowed  a  mortgage  on 

Peter  Dillon's  forfeited  lands  of  Granaghan,  &c. ^Mary, 

Catherine,  and  Elizabeth  Dillon,  minors,  claimed  by  their 
guardian  and  were  allowed  portions  of  £150  each,  off  lands 
in  the  Counties  of  Dublin  and  Meath,  forfeited  by  Martin 
Dillon.  Robert  Dillon,  also  a  minor,  was  allowed  a  remainder 
in  special  tail  therein;  while  Matthew  Dillon,  in  full  age, 

sought  and  obtained  a  similar  remainder. Gerald  Dillon 

was  allowed  a  fee  in  Portlick,  &c..  County  of  Westmeath. 

Henry  Lord   Dillon  claimed  the  fee  of  lands  in  the 

County  of  Roscommon,  as  purchased  for  his  benefit  by  John 


252  KING  James's  ibish  army  list. 

Dillon,  the  forfeiting  proprietor,  his  trostee;  he  also  daimed 
an  annuity,  a  chie&y,  a  term  for  years,  and  an  estate  tail  in 
several  estates  in  Mayo,  Gralway,  and  Westmeath,  forfeited 
by  Gerald  Dillon,  all  which  claims  were  allowed;  as  was 
the  claim  of  a  Thomas  Dillon  to  a  trust  estate  in  fee,  held 
by  said  attainted  Gerald  for  his  benefit. 

Arthur  Dillon,  before  mentioned  as  the  second  son  of 
Theobald,  the  seventh  Viscount  Dillon,  passed  into  France 
with  a  Segment  raised  by  that  nobleman,  and  consisting 
of  two  battalions  of  1,600  men  and  two  companies;  and  as 
most  interesting  particulars  of  him  and  of  his  Regiment,  with 
notices  of  several  otiier  distinguished  officers  of  that  name  on 
the  Continent,  are  recorded  in  O^CaUagharCs  Irish  Brigades^ 
it  shall  here  only  be  stated  that  in  1703,  when  serving 
in  the  Tyrol,  Dillon  and  his  Irish  forces  were  ordered  to 
clear  the  mountains  on  tixe  northern  nde  of  the  lake  of  Gbrda. 
*^  The  passages  were  closed  with  entrenchments  constructed 
by  Austrian  Engineers,  and  guarded  by  the  peasants  and 
regular  militia.  On  viewing  them,  they  were  found  impreg- 
nable in  front,  while  in  the  rere  steep  predpices  lifted  their 
summits  to  the  clouds,  accessible  only  to  the  wild  animals 
of  the  Alps.  There  the  eagle  built  his  nest,  the  chamois 
bounded  from  cliff  to  cliff,  and  the  bouquelin  gambolled  in 
the  wantonness  of  his  freedom;  but  man  had  never  been 
seen  on  these  summits.  The  Irish  scaled  them,  and,  appear- 
ing in  the  rere  of  the  entrenchments,  so  terrified  the  armed 
peasantry  and  the  few  regular  troops  who  were  with  them, 
that  after  a  few  discharges  they  abandoned  their  position 
with  the  utmost  precipitation.  Dillon  caused  several  fires 
to  blaze  on  the  summit  of  the  mountain,  in  order  to  magnify 
his  detachment  into  a  lai^e  body  in  the  eyes  of  the  garrison 
and  inhabitants  of  Biva;  whereupon  the  citizens,  apprehen-- 


DILLON'S  INFANTBT.  253 

siye  of  the  horrors  of  the  city  being  taken  hj  storm,  shut 
thdr  gates  and  sent  a  deputation  to  Dillon  with  the  keys. 
He  entered  in  triumph,  and  his  detachment  was  regaled 
-mth  refreshments,  and  possessed  themselves  of  several  pieces 
of  cannon  and  considerable  ammunition."*  Dillon's  was  not 
less  distinguished  in  1704  in  Piedmont  and  Savoy.  In  the 
following  year  he  was  made  a  Field-Marshal,  was  appointed 
Grovemor  of  Toulon,  signalized  himself  in  Lombardy,  was 
constituted  Ejiight  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  and  raised  to  the  rank 
of  Lieutenant-Greneral.  In  the  early  part  of  1707,  he  served 
in  Dauphin^;  subsequently  in  the  campaigns  of  1710,  1711, 
and  1712,  under  the  Marshal  Duke  of  Brunswick,  and  last 
in  1714.  He  lived,  however,  imtil  1733,  when  his  death 
took  place  at  ScGermains  en  Laye,  at  the  age  of  63,  he 
having  three  years  previously  resigned  his  Begiment  to  his 
eldest  son,  Comte  Charles  de  Dillon.  He  had  married  a  niece 
of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Dominick  Sheldon  (of  whom  see  anUy 
vol.  1,  p.  68),  and  by  her  had,  besides  daughters,  five  sons; 
the  two  eldest  of  whom  were  successive  Viscounts  Dillon. 
To  pursue  the  achievements  of  this  ^nom  celebre  dans  lea 
troupes  IrlandaiseSj  \  would  be  here  irrelevant. 

The  Muster  Boll  of  Dillon's  Begiment,  as  composed  in 
1791,  is  a  speaking  record  of  expatriated  Irishmen. 

The  CoUmelj  Theobald  Dillon. 

Lieutenant-CokmelSf  O'More  and  O'Toole. 

Captains^  Barry,  Mac  Dermott,  Mac  Dermot,  Greenlaw, 
Coghlan,  Dillon,  O'Keeffe,  FenneU,  Walsh,  Hussey,  OTer- 
lall,  Shee,  Sheldon,  Fagan,  Fitz  Maurice,  Pindan. 

LieiUenanta^  Mac  Closkey,  O'Mara,  John  O'Neill,  Doran, 

*  O'Qmnor's  MUU.  Mem.  v.  I,  p.  278,  && 
t  VoUair^s  Siede,  Lorn  XIV.,  y.  4,  p.  102. 


254  KIKG  JAM£8*8  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

Francis  M'Dermott,  Bedmond,  ,  Kean  Mahonj,  Joseph 
O'Neill,  Warren,  Langton,  Clifford,  Conway,  Jordan, 
Cokeran,  John  Walsh,  Christopher  Fagan,  Mac  Namara, 
Barnewall,  Patt  Fitzsimon,  John  Mahony,  O' Sullivan, 
Tarleton,  Theobald  Walsh,  Charles  Walsh,  Michael  Bellew, 
and  O'Dunne. 

In  the  following  year  the  Colonel  led  out  this  force, 
described  as  a  superb  brigade  of  Cavalry  and  Cuirassiers, 
from  Lisle,  under  orders  to  invest  Toumay;  but  the  privates, 
infected  with  a  republican  jealousy  to  their  Colonel,  as  an 
Aristocrat  and  a  Royalist,  rose  up  in  mutiny  and  shot  him 
dead.  By  a  decree  of  the  Convention,  however,  says  Mr. 
O'Beilly,  in  his  ReminUcenees  of  an  Irish  Emigrant,  vol.  1,  p. 
175,  '  the  children  of  this  Colonel  Theobald  were  adopted 
by  the  country;  and,  twenty  years  later,  one  of  his  sons 
served  as  an  officer  in  the  Irish  Legion.  After  the  disband- 
ing of  Dillon's  Brigade  there  remained  in  France  of  this 
Begiment,  at  Arras,  the  following  officers  of  Irish  descent: — 
O'Moran,  OTerrall,  FitzGerald,  Pindan,  Warren,  Hart, 
Plunkett,  Tarleton,  Michael  Bellew,  Doyle,  Nagle,  Delany, 
Christopher  Fagan,  Andrew  Elliott,  Mac  Cormick,  Beed, 
Morris,  Mac  Dermott,  Hussey,  Shee,  Barnewall,  Corkeran, 
O'Neill,  and  Waters.  In  1794  was  guillotined  another  of 
this  family,  a  victim  to  Bepublican  Equalization — Arthur, 
second  son  of  Henry,  the  eleventh  Viscount  Dillon,  who 
had  ranked  as  a  General  in  the  French  service,  and  had 
succeeded  his  murdered  brother  in  the  hereditary  command 
of  the  Begiment  rsused  by  their  grandfather. 

An  obituary  of  1782  states  the  death  at  that  time  of  John- 
Talbot  Dillon,  Eaiight  and  Baron  of  the  Holy  Boman 
Empire,  bom  in  London,  the  son  of  Francb  Dillon,  whose 
father,  William  Dillon,  lived  to  the  age  of  102,  and  died  then 


DILLON'S  INFANTBT.  255 

only  in  consequence  of  a  &11  from  his  horse.  This  veteran 
had)  at  the  advanced  age  of  70,  married  a  young  lady,  aged 
but  seventeen,  of  the  family  of  Plunkett,  by  whom  he  had 
several  children.  He  was  of  the  Dillons  of  Proudston,  a 
brandi  of  the  Earls  of  Roscommon.  His  son  Thomas  sold 
the  paternal  estate  about  the  year  1730,  passed  over  to 
England,  and  settling  in  London  married  Mary  Wingfield, 
only  daughter  and  heiress  of  Mervyn  Wingfield  of  Godwins, 
in  Suffolk,  descended  from  Sir  Anthony  Wingfield  of  Henry 
the  Eighth's  time.  Their  son,  the  above  John  Talbot  Dillon, 
married  a  lady  from  Liege  with  a  prospect  of  a  fortune,  but 
she,  dying  without  issue,  the  expectation  of  the  fortune  was 
defeated.  About  that  time  the  Emperor  Joseph  conferred 
upon  his  father,  said  Francis,  who  had  been  previously 
knighted  by  the  Emperor  Francis,  the  title  of  a  free  Baron 
of  the  Holy  Roman  Empire,  with  all  privileges  and  inuuuni- 
ties;  remainder  to  the  heirs  male  and  female  of  said  Francis 
and  Mary.  The  children  named  in  the  patent  were  this  John- 
Talbot  Dillon  the  eldest  son.  Frauds,  a  Captain  of  Cuirassiers 
in  the  Lnperial  army,  and  William  Mervyn  Dillon.  John 
Talbot,  having  survived  his  wife,  resided  for  some  years  in 
Vienna;  after  which  he  removed  to  England.  By  his 
mother,  says  the  Obituary,  he  was  allied  to  the  houses  of 
Norfolk,  Northumberland,  Carlisle,  the  late  Earls  of  Castle- 
haven,  the  present  Lord  Audley,  the  Earls  of  Louth,  and 
Viscount  Powerscourt.  He  published  Travels  in  Spain, 
chiefly  confined  to  its  natural  history.  Sir  William  Henry 
Dillon,  knight,  the  son  of  Sir  John  Talbot  Dillon,  entered 
the  navy  at  an  early  age,  in  1839  received  the  good  service 
pension,  and  died  in  September,  1857. 


256  KING  JAH£8*S  IRISH  ABMT  LIST. 


MAJOR  JOHN  MORGAN. 

This  sumajne  is  of  record  in  Ireland  in  the  person  of  Re^nald 
Morgan  in  1320.  In  1612  George  Sexton  had  a  grant  of  the 
imurdship  of  Patt  Morgan  the  Younger,  heir  of  Patt  Morgan 
the  Elder,  of  Grarrynadine  in  Roscommon;  while  in  1616 
Robert  Morgan  had  a  grant  of  various  rectories  and  ecclesias* 
tical  dues  in  Wexford.  Three  of  the  name  were  attainted  in 
1642,  and  at  the  battle  of  Newberry,  fought  in  the  following 
year,  a  Colonel  Morgan  was  killed  on  the  Royalist  side. 
Lieutenant  Charles  and  Quarter-Master  Henry  Morgan 
appear  on  the  Roll  of  adjudications  for  the  *1649' 
Officers.  In  1666  another  Robert  Morgan,  a  captain,  had 
confirmatory  grants  of  4,980  acres  in  Munster,  and  5,410 
in  Connaught,  as  had  John  Morgan  in  the  following  year  for 
1,587  acres  in  Galway,  234  in  Mayo,  and  634  in  Clare;  and 
in  1669  Sarah,  relict  of  James  Morgan,  and  Catherine,  their 
daughter,  had  a  grant  of  187  in  Down. 

In  King  James's  Parliament  of  1689  Sir  John  Morgan, 
Baronet,  was  attainted.  Besides  the  above  Major  there  were 
commisdoned  in  the  present  Army  List,  John  Morgan  a 
Lieutenant  in  the  King's  own  In&ntry,  and  another  of  the 
name  was  an  Enogn  in  Fitz  Jameses,  while  at  Aughrim  fell 
a  Lieutenant-Colonel  Morgan.  Those  of  the  name  attainted 
in  1692  were  Joseph  of  Cookstown  and  Edward  of  Drogheda, 
merchant. 


DILLON'S  INrANTBT.  257 


CAPTAIN  EDMUND  REYNOLDS. 

Thb  family  of  !He7nolds  is  anglicised  from  Mac  Baoall,  a 
Sept  who  held  the  territory  of  Monter-Iolis,  comprising  the 
southern  part  of  the  County  of  Leitrim,  with  the  northern 
part  of  Longford,  including  within  its  ambit  the  Castles  of 
Rinn,  Lough*Scur,  and  Leitrim,  and  the  religious  houses  of 
Fenagh,  Lough-Scur,  and  Leitrim.  The  native  annals  record 
their  too  frequent  feuds  with  the  O^Ruarcs,  the  rival  tanists 
of  Brefney;  yet,  in  1419,  Geoffirey  Mac  Ranall  assisted,  as 
Chief  of  his  Sept,  at  the  inauguration  of  Art,  son  of  Teigue 
O'Ruarc,  as  king  of  that  Territory*  In  1535  Mac  Ranall, 
Archdeacon  of  Kells,  was  deputed  by  the  unfortunate  Lord 
Thomas  Fitzgerald  (the  Silken  Lord),  to  solicit  aid  in  his 
insurrection,  from  the  Pope  and  the  Emperor  Charles  the 
Fifth.*  In  the  seventeenth  century,  Anne  Ware,  a  younger 
fflster  of  Sir  James  Ware,  the  justly  venerated  antiquarian^ 
was  married  to  Humphrey  Reynolds  of  Lough- Sour,  who,  in 
1610,  had  license  for  markets  at  Clone  in  Leitrim  and  at 
Downamona  in  Mayo.  In  1642  — .-«  Reynolds  of  New- 
castle, County  of  Dublin,  was  attainted;  and  in  1646 
Charles  Reynolds,  described  as  of  ^Jamestown,*  sat  amongst 
the  Confedeiate  Catholics  in  Kilkenny.  In  the  latter  year 
CRuarc,  "Chief  of  Brefiiey,  with  his  Sept,  Bernard  Mac 
•Ranall,  C^>taan  of  his  Sept,  Conrad  Mac  Ranall  and  Cornelius 
Mac  Ranall,  with  their  adherents,  repudiated  the  political 
settlement  then  proposed,  commonly  called  ^the  Peace  of 
Ormonde.*'^    The  Act  of  Explanation  (1665)  contained  a 

•  darkens  James  ILj  v.  I,  p.  176.        f  ^  Bwrgoy  Hib.  Dom.^  p.  879. 
VOL.  II.  8 


S58  KiNa  JAMEs'a  ibish  abmt  list. 

proviso  for  restoring  James  Reynolds  of  Lough-Scur  to  all 
his  lands,  for  which  he  had  in  1666  a  confirmatory  patent, 
comprising  Lough-Scur  Castle,  manor,  &c,,  with  6,661  acres 
in  Leitrim,  and  upwards  of  1,000  in  Roscommon  Counties; 
while,  in  aeyeral  other  patents  of  the  day,  were  contained 
savings  of  his  rights  in  the  County  of  Roscommon,  ss  also  of 
those  of  Humphrey  Reynolds.  Major  John  Reynolds  was 
one  of  the  '1649*  officers,  whose  claims  for  pi^t  services  were 
recognised  on  the  Restoration. 

The  above  Captain  Edmund  Reynolds  was  one  of  the 
Representatives  of  the  County  of  Leitrim  in  the  Parliament 
of  1689 ;  and,  besides  him,  there  appear  in  comioission  upon 
the  present  Army  List  in  this  Regim^it,  Morgan  Reynolds  a 
Lieutenant,  and  Ferdinando  an  Enogo;  while  in  Colonel 
Oliver  O'Grara's  Infimtry,  Turlough  Reynolds  waa  an  Ensign. 
Those  attainted  of  the  name  in  1691  were,  with  the  above 
Edward  (styled  of  Leitrim),  John  Reynolds  of  Blundektown, 
County  of  Dublin,  Charles  of  Dublin,  Fardagh  of  Castlefore, 
Loughlin  and  Bruin  of  Lisnagann,  with  Connor  and  Thady 
of  Ballinaboy  (all  in  the  County  of  Leitrim).  On  Edmund's 
attainder,  a  portion  of  the  ancient  estate  of  Rathmore  was 
considered  confiscated  aa  his,  but  at  Chichester  House  the  fee 
^thereof  was  claimed  by  and  allowed  to  Bridget  Reynolds, 
alias  Long,  '  his  widow,'  she  deriving  title  by  descent  from 
her  fitther,  Patrick,  and  through  her  brother,  Christopher 
Long. 

The  late  Geoige  Nugent  Reynolds,  a  popular  poet  of  some 
few  years  past,  was  considered  the  last  male  representative  of 
this  Sept  in  Leitrim. 


DILLON'S  INFANTRY,  259 


CAPTAIN  LUCAS  POWELL. 

The  Powells  are  of  Welsh  extraction  the  most  respectable, 
descended  from  Howell  ap  Bhys  of  Pinkelly  in  Caermarthen- 
shire.  On  the  plantation  of  Ulster,  William  Powell,  described 
as  then  of  Castlepark,  within  the  manor  of  Tutbury,  in 
Staffordshire,  had  a  grant  of  upwards  of  2,000  acres  in 
Armagh,  which  were  erected  into  the  manor  of  Ballyworran. 
James  Powell,  of  the  Carmarthenshire  line,  was  Clerk  of  the 
Conndl  in  the  reign  of  Charles  the  First,  and  Historiographer 
Boyal  in  that  of  Charles  the  Second,  while  it  must  not  be 
omitted  that  a  Mary  Powell  was  the  wife  of  the  immortal 
Milton.  In  1641  a  William  Powell  claimed  title  to  the 
Vicarage  of  Laraghbryap,  against  Lady  Talbot ;  it  was, 
however,  adjudged  to  her  by  an  order  of  the  Irish  House  of 
Commons.  Amongst  the  Boyaliste  who  were  in  1652  tried 
by  court-martial  in  St.  Patrick's  Church,  was  a  Thomas 
Powell.  In  1666  Gyles  Powell  had  a  confiimatory  grant  of 
3,410  acres  in  Limerick ;  while  Captain  Edward  Powell  was 
one  of  the  *  1649'  Officers,  In  1688  Sir  John  Powell  waa  a 
puisne  Judge  of  the  Irish  King's  Benoh,  who,  in  the 
following  year,  was  transferred  to  the  Common  Pleas.*  At 
the  battle  of  the  Boyne,  a  Lieutenant  Powell,  'of  the 
Guards,'  was  killed.t  The  Attainders  of  1691  have  of  this 
name  only  Edward  PoweU,  described  as  of  Bathcormac, 
County  of  Cork. 

•  Smger^s  Corresp,  vol.  2,  p.  273^ 
t  Clarke^s  Mem,  James  //.,  yoL  2,  p.  399. 


260  KINO  James's  ibish  abmt  list. 


CAPTAIN  JAMES  LALLT. 

Another  of  this  surname  was  a  Lieutenant  in  the  King's 

Own  Begiment  of  Infantry.-^ An  interesting  old  manuscript 

has  been  forwarded  in  aid  of  thia  work  by  Mr.  Browne  of 
Mojne;  it  is  entitled,  "  Extracts  from  the  Genealogy  of  the 
most  illustrious  House  of  O'Mullally  or  O'Lally  of  Ireland,, 
collected  from  the  old  Irish  MS.  Books  of  Pedigrees,  as  well 
as  from  the  records  preserved  in  the  offices  of  the  Exchequer, 
the  BoUb,  and  the  Auditor-General  in  said  kingdom,  by 
William  Hawkins,  Esq.,  King  of  Arms,  &c.,  tmder  the  seal 
of  his  office "  This  compilation  deduces  the  family  firom 
Amlavus  O'Maollalla,  said  to  be  Chief  of  Tulk«hy-MaolaIla, 
and  descended  in  the  thirteenth  generation  from  Maolalla, 
who,  at  the  close  of  the  tenth  century,  was  ruler  of 
Moen-nioge,  now  Clanricarde ;  from  which  period  the  annals 
recorded  are  sad  evidences  of  the  feuds  that  existed  between 
the  tanists  of  this  house  and  the  De  Burgos.  They  do, 
however,  more  peaceAiUy  relate  the  death  of  an  O^Mullally  in 
1487,  '  the  most  eminent  man  for  wisdom  in  Hy-Maine,'  and 
in  1523  Dr.  Thomas  O'Mullally  or  Lally  is  noticed  presiding 
as  Archbishop  of  Tuam,  at  a  synod  there  held. 

In  1541  Melaghlin  Mao  Dermot  0*MullaUy  submitted 
himself,  his  vassals,  and  land,  by  indented  articles  of  agree- 
ment, to  Sir  Anthony  St.  Leger,  Lord  Deputy;  and 
delivered  his  eldest  son  John,  then  twenty-five  years  old,  as 
a  hostage  for  performance  on  his  part.  Melaghlin  had 
married  Margaret,  the  daughter  of  Cormac,  son  of  Roger 
Mac  Dermot,  Chief  of  Moylurg;  and  their  son,  said  John, 
distinguished  himself  with  his  galloglasses  at  the  siege  of 


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dillok's  infai^tbt.  261 

Boulogne  in  1544.  He  married  a  daughter  of  Hugh 
O'Madden,  Chief  of  Silanchia,  and  his  brother,  William 
O'Mullally,  was  Archbishop  of  Tuam  in  1573,  by  the  Queen's 
appointment.  In  1585  this  Prelate  was  nominated  on  a 
commission  for  the  pacification  of  Connaught,  and  died  in 
1595.  In  1604  '  Isacke*  Lally  of  Tullenedaly  sued  out  a 
license  of  pardon  and  protection ;  in  Cromwell's  time,  how- 
ever, James  O'MullaUy,  the  great  grandson  of  John,  forfeited 
a  considerable  part  of  the  family  estate;  he  had  married 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Gerald  Dillon  of  Feamore  in  the 
County  of  Mayo  (brother  of  the  first  Viscount  Dillon  of 
Costello-Grallen),  and  died  on  the  old  soil  of  Tullindally. 
His  brothers  Donald  and  William,  following  the  fortunes  of 
Charles  the  Second,  were  outlawed,  and  the  i^mainder  of  the 
Lally  estates  in  the  Baronies  of  Dunmore  and  Kilconnell, 
County  of  Gralway,  were  thereupon  confiscated.  The  grand- 
son of  the  last-named  James  O'Mullalley,  was  another  James 
a  Captain  (the  officer  under  present  consideration)  afterwards 
Colonel,  who  was  killed  at  Montmelian.  Thus  far,  almost 
in  the  words  of  the  aforessdd  Manuscript  Pedigree,  the 
authenticity  of  which  is  vouched  by  "  Lally  Marquis  ToUen- 
dal.  Peer  of  Fjrance,  Minister  of  State,  in  Paris,  29th  October, 
1817."  Its  authority  is,  however,  impugned  [by  Dr. 
O'Donovan. 

The  Captain  James  Lally,  here  under  consideration,  sat 
as  Representative  of  Tuam  in  the  Parliament  of  1689,  in 
the  roll  of  which  he  was  expressly  styled  of  Tullindally. 
When  Theobald,  the  second  Viscount  Dillon  (writes  O'Cal- 
laghan*),  raised  in  1690  and  sent  over  to  France  the 
Regiment  subsequently  known  as  Dillon's  Regiment  to  form 

*  History  of  the  Brigades^  p.  121. 


262  KING  JAMESES  IBI8H  AJOCT  LIST. 

part  of  Monntcashers  Brigade,  haying  iqypcmited  his  son 
Colonel  thereof,  though  then  not  twenty  years  of  age,  he 
conferred  the  rank  of  Colonel,  as  commandant  of  the  second 
Battalion,  on  his  cousin  James  Lally  de  ToUendal;  who, 
with  his  brothers,  Gerald,  William,  and  Mark  Lally,  mainly 
contributed  to  form  that  second  Battalion  from  several 
independent  companies.  In  the  blockade  and  siege  of  Mont- 
melian,  in  November,  1691,  this  James  was  killed.  Besides 
him  in  Colonel  Henry  DiUon's  In&ntry,  Edmund  Lally  was 
a  Captain,  and  another  James  Lally  was  an  Ensign  in  Lord 
G^alway's.  The  Attainders  of  1691  have  but  the  names 
of  James  and  Gerald  The  ToUindally  so  confiscated  was 
sold  in  1703  to  Edward  Crew,  styled  of  Carrowkeel,  County 
of  Gralway,  it  being  described  as  *^  the  castle,  town,  and  lands 
of  'tullynadaly,  &c.,  in  the  Barony  of  Dunmore,  County  of 
Ghdway;'*  subject,  however,  to  a  legacy  to  Michael  Lally, 
and  portions  to  Bridget  Lally  and  to  Mary  Jordan,  alias 
Lally. 

Gerald  Lally,  the  attainted  brother  of  James  and  his 
companion  in  exile,  married  in  France  Marie- Anne  de 
Bressae,  a  lady  connected  with  some  of  the  noblest  houses 
in  that  kingdom,  and  they  were  the  parents  of  Thomas 
Arthur  Lally,  the  Count  Lally,  styled  from  a  devotion  to  the 
natale  solum^  ^  de  ToUendal.'  He  was  bom  in  Dauphin^ 
in  1702,  and  was,  according  to  the  custom  then  in  France, 
entered  a  soldier  on  his  birth.  He  obtained  a  company  in 
Dillon's  Lieh  Brigade  at  the  age  of  nineteen,  and  at  twenty* 
five  was,  on  Cardinal  Fleury's  selection,  sent  to  negotiate 
some  important  state  affidrs  with  the  Court  of  Russia;  a 
nusBion  in  which  he  acquitted  himself  so  well,  that  he  gained 
the  confidence  of  his  master  and  a  recommendation  from  the 
Czarina.      In  1743  he  fought  at  Dettingen.     Li  1744  a 


DILLON'S  INTAirrBY.  263 

Beg^ent  was  drafted  from  an  Irish  Briigade  for  his  com- 
Biandy  hence  styled  '  Lally's  Beglment,'  down  to  its  reduction 
in  1763.  At  the  battle  of  Ypres,  in  May  of  the  following 
year,  this  body  of  men  was  signally  distinguished:  Colonel 
LaUy  and  several  of  his  ofBcers  were  wounded.  He,  how* 
ever,  as  Voltaire  relates,*  ^'  took  with  his  own  hand"  many 
English  ofBcers,  whereupon  the  King  caused  him  to  be 
appointed  a  Brigadieir-Generali  In  the  succeeding  July 
(1745),  when,  by  the  aid  of  Walsh,  a  merchant  in  Nantes, 
who  was  an  Irish  refiigee.  Prince  Charles  Edward  embarked 
in  the  last  effort  to  recover  the  crown  of  his  ancestors,  Colonel 
LaUy  attended  him,  shared  aU  the  dangers  and  hardships  of 
that  campaign,  and  was,  as  Voltaire  also  expresses  it,  the  soul 
of.  the.  enterprise.  The  Duke  of  Cumberland  caused  him  to 
be  seized  as  a  spy,  but  by  influential  interporition  he  was 
diaoharg^i  on  the  terms  of  quitting  EnglanHthin  twenty- 
four  hours.  ^'  His  hatred  of  the  English  and  his  courage,'' 
says  Voltaire,  '*  led  to  his  having  been  selected  some  years 
after  to  command  the  expedition  required  to  uphold  the 
Erenoh  Company  established  for  traffic  in  India.'' 

The  details  of  this  appointment  and  the  circumstances 
connected  with  it  are  given  fully  by  that  historian ;  enough 
here  to  say  that,  when  he  was  appointed  to  this  command 
in  1755,  it  was  avowed  that  he  should  have  forthwith 
a  force  of  3,000  men  and  £250,000  in  money,  with  three 
ships  of  war;  to  which  the  French  India  Company  might 
add  such  vessels  as  they  could  arm.  The  equipment  was 
not,  however,  sent  out  until  two  years  aft;er,  and  then 
so  curtailed  in  every  particular,  that  Lally  declined  taking 
charge  of  it  until  peremptorily  ordered  so  to  do.^^ The 

*  Siide  de  Lom  XIV^  vol  4,  p.  181. 


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264  KING  JAMES'S  IBI8H  ABICT  LIST. 

capture  hj  the  English  in  1761  of  Pondicherry,  of  which  he 
was  GoTemor,  closed  his  career  and  that  war  in  India.  He 
was  taken  prisoner  by  the  English,  removed  to  Madras,  and 
thence  transported  to  England  $  where,  having  learned  the 
weighty  accusations  and  charges  that  were  raised  against  him 
in  his  own  country,  he  sought  and  obtained  leave  to  return 
thither  to  meet  and  confiite  them.  Bepairing  to  Fontain- 
bleau,  he  wrote  to  the  Duke  de  Choiseul,  '  I  have  brought 
hither  my  head  and  my  innocence,  and  shall  await  your 
orders.'  These  orders  were  of  unexampled  severity.  His 
property  was  seized,  and  himself  incarcerated  in  the  Bastille 
for  fifteen  months  before  he  was  brought  to  trial.  '^Is  this 
the  reward  of  forty  years'  service  7"  he  cried,  as  he  passed 
at  the  age  of  64  to  the  Conciergerie — to  judgment.  He 
was  sentenced  to  die,  and  having  been  guarded  to  the  place 
of  execution  and  gagged,  was  beheaded  in  1766,  some  hours 
previous  to  that  which  was  .fixed  by  his  judges.  His  remains 
were  buried  in  an  obscure  church  of  Paris.  Thus  died  the 
Count  Lally  de  ToUendal  the  Elder,  the  victim  of  court 
intrigues  to  screen  the  fitults  of  others.-*— He  left  by  his 
wife.  Felicity  Crofton,  a  son,  Gerard  de  Lally,  bom  at  Paris 
in  1751,  and  who  ranked  ^Comte  et  Marquis  de  Lally 
Tolendal,  Peer  of  France.'  In  the  generous  reverence  of 
his  &ther's  reputation,  he  was  successfully  labouring  in  1789 
to  obtain,  from  the  Parliament  of  Rouen,  a  reversal  of  his 
condemnation  and  an  acknowledgement  of  his  innocence, 
when,  the  Revolution  breaking  out,  paralyzed  his  efibrts, 
and  obliged  him  to  seek  an  asylum  in  Switzerland.  But 
Gerard  was  a  zealous  Royalist,  and  he  it  was  who,  on  the 
memorable  20th  of  July  in  that  year,  presenting  the  un» 
fortunate  King  to  his  people,  delivered  the  eloquent  and 
pathetic  address  which  is  extant  in  the  journals  and  histoiy 


billon's  infantbt.  265 

of  the  time.  Hia  loyalty  driving  him  again  into  exile,  he 
retired  into  Switzerland  ;  from  which  place,  neverthelefis, 
he  returned  to  Paris  in  1792,  with  the  yain  hope  of  saidng 
the  King's  life,  but  he  was  promptly  arrested  and  imprisoned 
in  the  Abbaye;  whence  making  his  escape  to  England,  he 
resided  for  some  years  at  Bichmond,  until,  on  the  Restoration 
of  the  Bourbons  in  1814,  he  was  made  a  Privy  Coundllor 
by  Louis  XVIII.,  with  whom  he  retreated  to  Ghent  on 
the  return  of  the  exiled  Emperor  in  the  following  year. 
On  the  second  Restoration  he  was  created  a  Peer,  and  soon 
after  died» 


CAPTAIN  PATRICK  MAC  GAWLEY. 

The  Mao  Crawley's,  or  more  correctly  Mac  Awleys,  were 
Chiefs  of  Calrigui,  a  territory  on  the  borders  of  Westmeath 
and  King^s  County,  comprising  the  present  parish  of  Bally- 
loughloe  in  the  Barony  of  Clonronan;  while,  according  to 
Mac  Geoghegan,  the  Sept  also  possessed  part  of  the  Barony 
of  Kilcoursy  in  the  King's  Coimty.  They  trace  their  lineage 
£rom  Manie,  the  fourth  son  of  Niall  of  the  Nine  Hostages ; 
and  a  venerable  pedigree,  long  preserved  in  the  family,  veri- 
fied in  1702  by  William  Hawkins,  Ulster  King  of  Arms, 
and  printed  in  eatenso  at  Prague  in  1736,  details  the  succes- 
sion from  him  to  Awley  of  the  13th  century,  and  thence  to 
the  present  representative.  In  this  pedigree  the  respective 
matches  of  each  tanist  with  the  septs  of  O'Rourke,  Mac 
Geoghegan,  Fite  Patrick,  O'Byme,  O'KeUy,  O'CarroD, 
OTerrall,  O'Brien,  ©'Kennedy,  O'Mulloy,  O'Connor-Faly, 
O'More,  O'Melaghlin,  &c.,  through  centuries,  are  confidently 


266  KING  James's  ibish  asmt  list. 

given.  The  Four  Masters  commemorate  the  death  of  Aire^ 
achtach  Mac  Awley,  then  Chief  of  Cahigia,  in  1187.  In 
1460  Manus  Mc  Awley,  its  chiefs  married  Una  O'Mulloj, 
daughter  of  the  Lord  of  Feaical.  In  1527,  say  the  same 
annalists  with  undisguised  candour,  Aulaff  Oge  Dhu  Mac 
Awley,  the  Chief  of  Calrigia,  was  slain  hj  the  Clan  Cohnan ; 
but  previous  to  his  death  he  had  his  revenge,  for  he  slew 
at  the  same  place  Fiochadh  Mac  Geoghegan.  In  1615 
James  Magawley  had  liveiy,  as  son  and  heir  of  Christopher 
Magawlejf  of  Don^;ane  in  Westmeath^  In  1632  died 
Murtagh  Magawley,  seised  of  two  castles  and  sundry  lands 
in  said  county.  Awley  Magawley,  his  son  and  heir,  was 
then  aged  forty  and  married.  In  two  years  after  died  James 
Magawley,  seised  in  fee  of  the  Castle  of  Ballyloughtoo,  &c., 
leaving  Henry ^  his  eldest  son,  then  aged  fourteen^  with  six 
other  sons,  Bichard,  Hugh,  Gerald,  Thomas,  Edward,  and 
Christopher,  all  living  at  the  time  of  their  said  father's 
decease.  This  Henry  appears  to  have  married  Maria^  daugh- 
ter of  John  Brown  of  the  Neal;  and  a  very  detuled  pedigree 
in  the  ascending  line  of  this  Henry,  through  twenty-four 
generations,  to  Byrne,  son  of  Maurice,  whom  it  mentions  as 
having  been  baptised  by  St.  Patrick,  is  incorporated  in  » 
Funeral  Entry  in  Birtningham  Tower.  Henry  had  by  this 
lady  five  sons;  the  above  Captain  Patrick,  Henry,  Johui 
Philip,  and  Gerald.  Frauds,  third  son  of  said  Patrick  by 
Johanna,  daughter  of  John  Leicester  of  Ejlcormack,  married 
Bridget  Delamer,  by  whom  he  had  Awley  Mac  Awley,  who, 
in  the  early  part  of  his  life,  was  in  the  service  of  Maria 
Theresa.  His  son  was  the  late  Count  Francis  Philip  Mac 
Awley,  who  married  in  1808  Clara,  daughter  and  sole  heiress 
of  the  Count  Cerati,  and  was  in  1815  the  chosen  Prime 
Minister  of  the  Ex-Empress  Maria  Louisa.    He  died  in  1835, 


Dillon's  infaktbt.  267 

when  his  son  Valerio,  Count  Magawley  (CeratI),  succeeded 
to  the  representation  of  this  ancient  Sept. 

Francis  had,  by  s^d  Bridget  Delamer,  three  other  sons, 
Henry,  attainted  in  1691,  but  who  afterwards  became  a 
Franciscan  fiiar,  and  died  in  1711;  John,  who  also  became 
a  fiiar,  in  Bohemia,  and  died  in  1720;  and  Philip,  bom  in 
1675,  and  who,  notwithstanding  his  tender  years,  was,  for  a 
short  time,  engaged  in  this  war,  an  Ensign  in  this  Colonel 
Henry's  Begiment,  but  he  left  Ireland  in  1690  for  France, 
with  that  which  his  young  relative,  Colonel  Arthur  Dillon, 
brought  over  to  the  Continent.  Philip  signalized  himself  in 
the  seryioe,  and  died  in  1735.  The  Mac  Gawleys  attainted 
in  1691  were  the  above  Patrick,  styled  of  Tullavoad  in 
Westmeath;  Grarret,  George,  James,  and  Peter  Mac  Gawley 
of  Came ;  Dominick  of  Noughwell,  Hubert  of  Aughvillas,. 
with  James  and  Henry  of  Dungan,  all  in  said  County; 
Bichard  of  Kildine  in  Meath;  Thomas  of  Lisnaskea  in 
Fermanagh,  and  Thomas  'Mac  Gaulie*  of  Bathi&iland  in 
Down  (the  last  two  appear  to  have  been  of  Scotch  descent 
and  Plantation  introduction).  Christopher  Mac  Gawley,  of 
Williamstown  in  Westmeath,  was  also  attainted,  but  obtained, 
on  claim,  the  benefit  of  the  Articles  of  Limerick,  as  did 
likewise  Captain  Patrick,  who  had  attained  the  rank  of 
Lieutenant-Colonel  in  the  war.  At  the  Court  of  Claims  in 
1700  Christopher  Mac  Gawley  and  Jane  his  wife  claimed 
an  estate  tail  in  Westmeath  lands  forfeited  by  James  Mac 
Gawley,  but  th^  prayer  was  disallowed;  while  a  Patrick 
Mac  Gawley  sought  and  obtained  a  long  leasehold  term,  and 
a  mortgage  affecting  Westmeath  lands,  as  well  those  of  said 
James  as  of  Henry  Mac  Gawley« 


268  KING  JAMSS'fl  miSH  JJIMT  LIST. 


CAPTAIN  WALTER  BLAKE. 

The  founder  of  this  fiunily  in  Ldand,  aaja  Sir  Bernard 
Burke  in  his  Baronetage^  was  Bidiard  Blake,  aliaa  Caddellt 
who  aocompanied  Prince  John  in  1185  into  this  Kingdom^ 
and  subsequently  obtained  huge  grants  in  Connaught.  His 
descendant  and  namesake  was  commanded  in  1303,  as  Sheriff 
of  Connaught,  to  levy  a  debt  due  to  the  Crown  by  David 
de  Buigo.  In  1309  John  le  Blake  and  Gilbert  le  Blake 
sued  out  writs  of  right  connected  with  lands,  as  did  Bichaid 
le  Blake  in  the  following  year.  In  1355  Walter  Poer  Blake 
was  one  of  the  influential  proprietors  of  Waterford,  who, 
according  to  the  law  of  the  day,  elected  Peter,  son  of  Boger 
le  Poer,  into  its  Shrievalty^  In  1387  when  Robert  de  Yere, 
Marquess  of  Dublin,  ruled  Ireland  under  the  extraordinary 
grant  from  King  Richard,  that  fiivourite,  having  committed 
the  salmon  fishery  of  the  town  and  river  of  Gbdway,  as  then 
in  the  possession  of  the  Crown,  by  reason  of  the  minority 
of  Roger,  son  and  heir  of  Edmund  Mortimer,  late  Earl  of 
March,  to  Richard  Panys  of  Bristol,  especially  prohibited 
Richard  de  Burgo  and  Henry  Blake,  bux^esses  of  that  town, 
from  opposing  the  exercise  of  this  right.  A  branch  of  the 
fiunily  was  then  settled  in  the  County  of  Ejldaie  (where  it 
gave  name  to  the  locality  of  Blakestown)  as  was  another  in 
Meath.  In  1487  Robert  Blake  was  Bishop  of  Clonmacnoise, 
by  the  Pope's  provision. 

In  the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth  died  Luke  Blake  of  New 
Ross,  leaving  Mark  his  son  and  heir,  who  died  in  1604, 
when  Luke,  junior,  his  son  and  heir,  was  aged  only  five  years; 
the  latter  died  in  1623,  leaving  John  Blake  his  brother  and 


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DILLON*S  INFANTBT.  269 

hear,  of  ftdl  age.  In  1612  Robert  Blake  of  Gralway,  had  a 
grant  of  the  Castle,  mill,  and  lands  of  Ballynacourt,  the  Castle 
and  site  of  Castlemoyle,  the  Castle,  town,  and  lands  of  Caitra, 
the  Castle  or  fort  of  Ardfiy,  with  sundry  lands  and  chief 
rents  in  Ghalway,  a  Castle,  town,  and  sundry  townlands  in 
Mayo ;  while,  in  1616,  Valentine  Blake  had  a  patent  for 
markets  and  fhirs  at  Clonyn  in  the  last  County.  In  1618 
died  Bichard  Blake  of  Wardstown,  in  Meath,  seised  of  a 
Castle  and  other  premises  there;  he  left  no  male  issue, 
whereupon  Alison,  daughter  of  Peter  Blake,  his  brother,  then 
aged  fourteen,  succeeded  to  the  estates.  In  1640  John 
Blake,  alias  Caddell,  presented  a  petition  to  the  Commis- 
sioners of  the  Transplantation  of  Connaught,  wherein,  after 
stating  that  ^'  he  and  his  ancestors,  whose  heir  he  is  by  lineal 
descent  of  eleven  generations,  as  proveable  by  many  andent 
and  authentic  documents,  '  is  and  have  been  seised  of  their 
inheritance  of  the  Castie  and  two  water  mills  of  Kiltorragh, 
and  a  moiety  of  the  lands  thereto  belon^g,  and  of  two 
quarters  and  a-half  in  Slew-Clare,  parcel  of  Kiltorragh,  and 
of  the  moiety  of  the  Castle  and  four  quarters  of  land  in 
Eolltullagh,  and  of  divers  messuages  and  lands,  within  the 
Liberties  of  Galway  and  Athenry;  and  that  the  petitioner 
and  his  ancestors  did  plant  thereabout,  being  an  ancient 
English  &mily,  and  there  continued  without  change  of 
language,  manners,  or  habit,  and  without  once  matching  with 
any  Irish  family,  since  the  ninth  year  of  Edward  the  Second,* 
and  that  said  premises  have  been  ever  English  land,  exempt 
from  Irish  jurisdiction  or  exactions,  as  free  as  any  within 
the  Pale,  same  having  been  then  purchased  from  Thomas 
'Hobridge'  by  the  petitioner's  ancestor,  Richard  Caddell^ 
called  *  the  hlach^  To  this  memorial  was  annexed  a  proof  of 
the  respective  links  of  the  petitioner's  pedigree,  whereupon 


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270  KD^G  JAHES'S  IBIS&  ABMT  LIST. 

the  said  Commissioners  reported,  *  upon  all  which  we  concdve 
that  the  estate  of  inheritance,  now  held  by  the  said  John  Blake, 
of  the  premises,  was  in  his  said  ancestors,  whose  heir  male 
he  is,  before  his  Majesty's  title  accrued  to  the  said  County 
of  Gralway."*  Francis  Blake,  of  this  old  Galway  iamily, 
was  one  of  the  Confederates  at  the  Supreme  Council  of 
Kilkenny,  of  which  Assembly  Sir  Bichard  Blake^  the  founder 
of  the  &mily  of  Ardfiy,  was  Speaker.  In  1668  Walter 
Blake  had  a  confirmatory  grant  of  3,748  acres  in  Mayo, 
and  2,803  in  Galway,  and  in  1677  had  an  increased  grant 
of  2,523  acres  in  these  Counties ;  while  in  the  latter  year 
Martin  Bkke  had  a  similar  grant  of  1,895  acres  in  Galway; 
Andrew  Blake  of  2,532  in  the  same  County ;  and  Andrew, 
son  and  heir  of  Walter,  of  3,376  acres  in  Gralway  and  Mayo. 
In  1679  Peter  Blake  passed  patent  for  a  moiety  of  the 
castle,  town,  and  six  quarters  of  Aughrim,  535  acres,  and 
upwards  of  1,000  more  in  Galway.  In  1681  Robert,  son 
and  heir  of  Bichard  Blake,  had  like  grants  of  12,000  acres 
in  Galway,  Mayo,  and  Meath;  as  had  Marcus  Blake  of 
1,189  acres  in  Mayo. 

Besides  the  above  Captain  Walter,  there  appeared  com- 
missioned on  this  List — in  liord  Bophin*s  Infantry,  Bichard 
Blake  a  Captain  with  John  Blake  his  Ensign;  Peter  a 
Captain  and  another  Peter  his  Ensign;  and  Richard  a 
Lieutenant  with  Nicholas  Blake  bis  Ensign;  while,  in 
Colonel  Dominick  Browne's  Infantry,  Valentine  ^Blacke' 
was  a  Lieutenant.  In  King  James's  New  Charter  to  Galway 
in  1687,  fourteen  of  this  name  were  set  down  upon  the  Roll 
of  Burgesses.  Eight  of  the  name  were  attainted  in  1691, 
and  amongst  them  the  above  Walter,  described  as  of  Galway. 


*  HardmuffCs  lar-'Cowaught^  pp.  104-5. 


billon's  infantbt.  271 

He  was  in  truth  Sir  Walter  Blake  of  Menlough;  and, 
though  he  was  one  of  the  Kepresentatives  of  the  County  of 
Gralway  in  the  Parliament  of  1689,  he  was  yet,  says  Sir 
Bernard  Burke,*  *  the  first  Catholic  gentleman  that  joined 
the  standard  of  the  Prince  of  Orange,  and  obtained  a  com- 
mission from  his  Highness  to  raise  a  Begiment  which  he 
maintained  and  clothed  at  his  own  expense.'  He  was, 
however,  f(»rmally  attainted  in  1691,  as  was  also  John  Blake 
of  Ardfry ;  but  Sir  Walter  was  adjudged  within  the  articles 
of  1698  and  1699,  as  were  Lieutenant  Blake  of  Drum,  and 
Bichard  Blake  of  Ardfry.  The  latter  was  one  of  the 
burgesses  named  in  the  New  Charter  to  Galway,  but  not 
haying  taken  up  arms  for  dther  party,  his  own  burned 
Ardfry  and  destroyed  his  property,  in  consequence  of  which 
De  Grinkell  promised  him  relief  that  he  afterwards  obtained; 
but,  being  a  papist,  much  difficulty  was  interposed  to  his 
getting  possession  of  his  lands.f  Francis  and  Martin  Blake, 
who  were  also  of  King  James's  party,  obtained  pardons  under 
the  Great  Seal.  At  Chichester  House  Sir  Walter  Blake 
claimed  and  was  allowed  a  fee  in  estates  in  the  County  of 
Clare,  forfeited  by  John  Blake  of  Ardfry;  while  on  other 
estates  of  said  John,  Isidore  and  Patrick  Blake,  minors,  by 
their  uncle  and  guardian  Thon^as  Lynch,  sought  respective 
remainders ;  as  did  Mary  Lynch,  otherwise  Blake,  his  widow, 
her  jointure.  In  1697  Geoffirey  Blake,  of  Drum  in  Galway, 
petitioned  the  Irish  Parliament  for  relief  by  Bill  against  his 
&ther,  Walter  Blake  a  papist,  who  threatened  to  disinherit 
him  as  he  (Geoffirey)  had  become  a  Protestant.-* — Joseph 
Henry  Blake,  the  representative  of  the  Ardfry  line,  was  in 
1800  ennobled  by  tiie  titie  of  Lord  Barpn  Wallscourt. 

*  Pm^e^  p.  90.  t  Tharpe'a  Catal  SouOwM  MSS^  p.  88. 


272  KING  James's  irish  abut  list. 


CAPTAIN  WILLIAM  BRABAZON, 

Sir  Bernard  Burke  remarks  in  his  Peerage^  that  Jacques 
le  Brabazon  appears  ia  the  Boll  of  Battle- Abbey,  as  one  of 
the  Knights  who  aocompanied  the  Conqaeror  to  England; 
from  which  time  members  of  this  &mily  are  distinguished  on 
English  reoord,  as  Knights,  Justices,  and  Bepresentatiyes  in 
Parliament,  In  1534  Sir  William  Brabazon  was  Vice* 
Treasurer  and  Receiver-Greneral  of  Ireland ;  at  which  time 
the  Lord  Chief  Justice  Aylmer  wrote  of  him  to  Lord 
Cromwell,  King  Henry's  prime  minister,  as  ^the  man  that 
prevented  the  total  ruin  and  desdation  of  the  country,  and 
who  is  extolled  by  all,  as  the  saviour  of  the  Idngdom.'  He 
was  thrice  at  the  head  of  the  Irish  Govermnent  as  Lord 
Justice.  His  eldest  son  Edward  was  one  of  the  Bepre* 
sentatives  for  the  County  of  Wicklow  in  Perrot's  Parliament 
of  1585,  and  he,  in  1609,  had  a  grant  of  the  onoe  splendid 
religious  house  of  St.  Thomas  ii  Becket,  with  the  oourt, 
wood,  mill,  buildings,  orchards  and  gardens  ajq)ertaining, 
situate  within  the  liberties  of  DuUin,  which  his  desoendantB, 
the  Earls  of  Meath,  still  ei^oy^ 

In  1636  Anthony  Brabazon  died,  seised  of  Kildogher^ 
Calliaghtown,  Ac.,  in  Louth,  leaving  Edward  lus  son  and 
h^,  aged  ten  years.  The  name  does  not  appear  on  the  BoU 
of  Attainders  of  1641,  hut,  in  1652,  Anthony  Brabazon^ 
described  as  of  Ballinasloe,  a  younger  branch  oS  the  aforesaid 
Sir  William,  and  anoestor  of  the  Baronets  of  the  County 
Mayo,  was  excepted  from  pard<m  for  lift  and  estate  by 
CromweU*s  Ordinance.  In  1679  a  confirmatory  patent  for 
891  acres  in  Boaoommon,  passed  to  William  Brabazon,  who 


DILLON'S  INFANTET.  273 

seems  to  have  been  the  son  of  Anthony,  the  patentee  of 
1652,  and  identical  with  the  above  Captain. 

The  IJarl  of  Meath  of  that  day  was  so  identified  with 
King  Williain's  cause,  as  to  have  been  attainted  in  King 
James's  Parliament.  He  had  a  command  in  the  service  of 
the  former  at  the  battle  of  the  Boji^e;  and,  in  the  subsequent 
first  siege  of  Limerick,  led  a  Regiment,  on  which  occasion 
several  of  his  men  were  shot,*  and  himself  wounded;  he  was 
sworn  of  King  William's  Privy  Council,  and  afterwards  of 
Queen  Anise's,  and  d;ed  in  Feb.,  1708,  s.p. 


'^. — TT^ 


CAPTAIN  HUGH  MAC  DERMOT. 

The  early  annals  of  this  once  powerful  &mily  are  fully 
detailed  in  the  JSook  of  Lecauj  avowedly  from  the  more 
ancient  Psalter  of  Cashel.  The  Book  of  Kilronan^  compiled 
by  their  chief  ^  Seanachiesy  the  O'Duigenans,  has,  as  might 
be  expected,  most  interesting  particulars  of  their  lii^eage. 
Maolruana,  King  of  Moylurg  at  the  time  of  the  battle  of 
Clontarf  in  1014)  is  ranked  as  propositus  of  this  noble  Sept; 
he,  however,  having  been,  as  the  Annalists  relate,  too  old  to 
be  there  present,  one  of  his  sons  led  his  adherents,  the  Clan- 
Maobnana,  on  that  memorable  day.  His  lineal  descendant 
in  the  seventh  generation  was  Dermot,  who  died  in  1159, 
*'  Supreme  Councillor,  Sage,  and  excellent  Mediator  of  one- 
fifth  of  Connaught."  In  him  the  surname  originated,  while 
their  territory  was  called  Moylurg.  Conor,  the  son  of  this 
Dermot,  Tanist  of  Moylurg  in  the  twelfth  century,  after 

*  Bawdon  Papers^  p.  334, 
VOL.  II.  T 


274  KING  JAMBS'S  IBI8H  ABMT  LIST. 

enjoying  the  sovereigntj  of  the  little  prindpality  for  ten 
years,  took  upon  him  the  Cisterdan  habit,  and  became  a 
monk  in  the  Abbey  of  Boyle,  within  whose  still  noble  and 
picturesque  walls  he  was  interred  in  1198;  whereupon  the 
govemment  hereof  devolved  upon  Tumultagh  (Timothy) 
Mao  Dermot,  his  son,  who  erected  in  1204  the  original  castle 
on  an  Island  of  Lough  Ee,  within  the  now  beautiful  demesne 
of  Viscount  Lorton.  Thon^,  (the  son  of  Ferral  Mao  Dermot> 
theretofore  Abbot  of  Boyle),  was  in  1262  pronioted  to  the 
Bishopric  of  Elphin.  In  this  interval  branched  off  the 
founders  of  the  Mac  Dermots-na-Grall  aad  the  Mc  Dermotts 
ruagh  (Roe).  Early  in  the  fourteenth  century  Dermot 
McDermot  of  Moylurg  was  one  of  the  Irish  Magnates  who, 
firom  a  hatred  of  the  English  government,  invited  the  invasion 
of  Edward,  the  brother  of  King  Bobert  Bruce,  On  his 
arrival  in  Ulster,  this  Dermot  was  of  the  first  who  joined  his 
standard,  and  fell,  his  unsuccessAd  ally,  in  the  last  struggle 
for  the  invader,  at  the  battle  of  Athenry,  with  many  other 
Mo  Dermots,  his  adherents.  From  Conor  Mc  Dermot  of  this 
period  sprung  the  Mc  Dermots  'of  the  Bock;'  a  branch  was 
also  at  this  time  established  in  Cork. 

In  1331  Maolruana  Mc  Dermot,  Lord  of  Moylurg,  having 
abdicated  his  govermnent,  assumed  the  monastic  habit  in  the 
Abbey  of  Boyle,  and  Tomaltaoh  his  son  succeeded  to  the 
lordship.  In  1478  Mao  William  Burke  aided,  as  would  seem 
by  Connor  Mao  Dermot,  dien  the  Chief,  'entered  upon  that 
portion  of  Moylurg,  which  belonged  to  Boderic  Mac  Dennot, 
who  thereupon  proceeded  to  besiege  Hhe  Bode'  in  Lough  Ke, 
the  seat  of  the  Mac  Dermot,  having  with  him  a  mechanical 
war  engine^  which  was  sent  to  him  from  Fermanagh;  and, 
by  a  cast  fix>m  it,  the  only  son  of  the  Mc  Dermot  was  slain, 
the  Bock  was  taken,  and  Boderic  assumed  the  lordship  of 


i}TLL0W8  iKfAlftBr.  275 

Moylurg  and  exiled  Coimo]'.*  *In  1540,'  as  Al86  re^rded 
by  the  Four  Masters,  'a  generitl  invitation  to  one  entertain- 
ment was  given  bj  Boderic,  the  son  of  Teigue  Mac  Dermot, 
and  his  wife,  the  daughter  of  Mto  William  of  Olantiokard,  to 
the  Schools  Of  Ireland  and  t6  all  those  who  were  in  the  habit 
of  receiving  presents,  to  coine  to  them  ^  the  Bock,  and  they 
Were  all  plentiftdly  supplied  by  that  couple/  To  Ibe  Parlia- 
ment, convened  by  Sir  John  Perrot  in  1585,  Teigue,  the  sdn 
of  Hugh  '  Og^,'  being  tanist  of  Moylurg  and  very  old^  sent 
his  relative  *of  the  Bock,'  vi2.  Bryan,  son  of  Bory,  son  of 
Teigue,  son  of  Bory  ogey  who  was  the  great  grandson  of 
Connor,  the  founded  of  that  line  (as  aforesaid),  to  represent 
the  Sept  at  this  first  national  Assembly.  Teigue's  line  after- 
wards became  extinct,  and  the  Captainship  passed  to  the 
femily  'of  the  Book.'  A  survey  of  Connaught,  made  in  ldS6, 
names  MoDermot's  territory  in  Boscommon  «^  Moniurter- 
Boyle. 

In  1602,  when  the  Lord  Deputy  Mountjoy  ptumA  the 
Christmas  at  Qalway,  the  Mc  Dermot  (styled  ^of  die 
Curlews')  made  his  submission  to  him.  Brystt  He  Dermot 
was  then  the  Chief;  in  1608,  however,  his  estates  were  held 
to  be  confiscated,  and  seven  leading  members  of  the  Sept 
were  obliged  to  sue  out  their  pardons.  In  1604  King  James 
granted  the  reversion  of  the  office  of  Seijeant^t^Arms  in 
Connaught  and  Thomond  to  Cormack  Mao  Dermot  and 
Henry  his  son,  and  the  survivoi^.  A  B^port  made  during 
this  reign  states  that  this  Cormadc  Ma^  Dermot  bitd  a  son 
and  a  nephew  in  the  College  of  Bourdeaux,  prints ;  while  the 
document  emphatically  adds— »*  There  are  hufidr^d^  in  the 
College,  whose  names  I  saw  the  last  lent,  fh>m  Waterford, 
Limerick,  Clonmel,  Cork,  Ghdway,  Kilkenny,  and  Drogheda, 
and  from  the  counties  abeoad  throughout  the  ^^ealm;  and  I 


276  KING  JAM£S'8  IBI8H  ABICT  LIST. 

am  sore  that  there  is  no  worthy  gent:  in  all  the  reahn,  nor 
merchant,  but  gave  their  sons  and  their  nearest  kinsmen;  but 
what  in  particular  is  sent  to  them,  is  the  portion  their  &thers 
do  leave  them,  and  some  coIlectionB  that  yearly  '  is'  taken  up 
for  them;  and  with  this  they  live,  together  with  certain  yearly 
pensions  that  is  allowed  unto  the  Colleges  by  the  Kings  and 
Princes  in  whose  dominion  they  liye.  But  as  for  the  Bishops 
Jesuits,  Friars,  they  receive  not  one  penny  out  of  this  land, 
but  are  relieved  by  the  bounty  of  the  Priests  throughout 
Christendom  where  they  dwell,  and  by  the  Prelates  of  the 
Cloisters,  wher^  they  receive  their  orders.'*  In  the  same 
year  (1604)  Sir  Theobald  Dillon,  Enight  (afterwards  created 
Visoount  DiUon,  and  ancestor  of  the  Colonel  of  this 
Segment),  had  a  grant  of  the  wardship  of  Bryan  oge 
McDermot,  son  and  heir  of  the  aforesaid  Bryan  *of  the 
Bock,'  for  the  consideration  of  a  fine  of  £4,  and  an  annual 
rent  of  £3  68.  8d.,  the  patentee  retuning  thereout  certain 
allowances  for  the  maintenance  and  educatioa  of  the  minor. 
In  1607  Connor  MacDermott  Boe  passed  patent  for 
Cammock  and  other  lands  in  Boscommon,  with  license  for 
fairs  and  markets  in  Eilmactrany ;  and  in  the  same  year  Sir 
William  Taaffe,  Ejiight,  had  a  grant  of  the  wardship  of 
Owen,  son  and  heir  of  Cornelius  MacDennot  of  Carrick 
MacDermot,  deceased ;  which  Owen  attained  age  in  1617,  as 
did  Bryan,  Lord  Dillon's  ward,  in  the  following  year;  when 
he  passed  patent  for  such  a  territory  that  the  enumeration  of 
the  townlands  covers  sixteen  skins  of  parchment;  the  first 
richly  illuminated;  yet  was  it  but  a  portion  of  their  former 
princely  inheritance*  The  patent  is  still  preserved  by  the 
lineal  male  representative  of  the  Sept,  Charles  MacDermot 


^MS.m  Trm.  ColL  LSbrmy,  DMm^  E.  iiL  7. 


DILLON'S  INFANTRY.  277 

of  Coolayin.  This  Bryan,  the  Chief,  died  in  1636,  and  was 
buried  in  a  church  founded  by  one  of  his  ancestors,  within  the 
holy  ambit  of  ClonmacnoiBe.  His  second  son,  Charles,  on  the 
death  of  an  elder  brother  Terence  without  issue,  became 
seised  of  Moylurg — its  last  Chief  He  had  married  Eleanor, 
daughter  *  of  the  great  O'Mulloy  of  Croghan/  in  the  County 
of  Roscommon.  In  1681  Hugh,  son  of  Teigue,  son  of  Bory, 
son  of  Owen  Grana  MacDermott,  passed  patent  for  194  acres 
in  Gralwayi 

Hugh  Mc  Dermot^  the  Captain  in  this  notice,  was  the 
eldest  son  of  said  Charles  and  Eleanor;  he  was  taken  prisoner 
at  Aughrim,  but,  on  the  interference  and  by  the  interest  of 
Sir  Robert  King,  the  ancestor  of  Viscount  Lorton  (then 
residing  at  Rockingham,  part  of  the  ancient  property  of  the 
McDermots),  he  was  released,  avowedly  by  reason  of  the 
humanity  and  kindness  evinced  by  him  towards  the  Pro- 
testant Clergy  and  Laity.      The  origmal  letter  of  Sir  Robert 
King  to  John  Davies,  in  &vour  of  Captain  Hugh  on  this 
occasion,  is  in  the  possession  of  the  aforesaid  representative  of 
the  Sept ;  as  is  also  a  memorial  from  Hugh  to   Sarsfield, 
seeking  military  outfit  for  his  troop,  with  the  order  thereupon 
signed  by  Henry  Dillon,  as  Lord  Lieutenant  of  the  County. 
Captain  Hugh  intermarried  with  Eliza,  daughter  of  O'Kelly 
of  Aughiim,  and  by  her  had  issue  Charles  and  Terence.      Li 
January,  1688,  Ballymote  was  garrisoned  by  the  latter,  who 
represented  the  Borough  of  Boyle  in  King  James's  Parlia- 
ment of  Dublin,  and  was  consequently  attainted  in  King 
"William's  ;  whereupon  all  his  interest  in  the  family  estates 
(the  greater  portion  of  which  had  been  conveyed  in  1669  to 
him  by  his  fitther)  was  confiscated;  and  his  brother  Charles 
succeeded  only  to  Coolavin  on  the  death  of  their  fistther, 
Ci^tain  Hugh,  in  1707.     Before  that  event,  in  September, 


278  KING  JAMSS'S  IBISH  ABMT  LIST. 

1690,  this  Charts  was,  in  yirtue  of  King  James's  Com- 
misaion,  directed  and  ^npowered  to  receive  for  his  Migesty 
the  Caatlfi  of  Carrick  Mac  Dermot,  i.e.  the  Castle  of  the 
Sock,  in  Lough  Ke,  and  the  Castle  or  strong  house  of 
Canbo,  and  all  other  the  Castl^  and  strong  houses  upon  die 
said  Charles's  estate  and  ancient  inheritance.  He  died  in 
1758|  at  the  advanced  age  of  98i  leaving  issue  by  his  lady, 
(Catherine  Dillon  of  the  House  of  Clonbrock),  Myles  his  eldest 
son,  who  married  a  daughter  of  Charles  O'Conor,  the  eld^ 
historian,  and  died  at  Coolavin  in  1793,  leaving  issue  Hugh 
and  other  children.  Hugh  married  his  cousin  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Denis  O'Conor  of  Ballinagar,  and  by  her  had 
Charles  and  several  other  children.  Charles  intermarried 
with  Arabella  O'Kourke  of  the  andent  Sept  of  Bre&ey,  by 
whom  he  has  a  numerous  issue,  and  he  now  ranks  as  the 
lineal  representative  of  th?  elder  line  of  the  MacDermots. 
Besides  the  above  Captain  Hugh,  there  are  in  commisaion, 
in  different  Begiments  of  this  Army  list,  eight  other 
McDermots  or  McDermotts — four  in  Colonel  Oliver  O'Grara's, 
one  in  Colonel  Nicholas  Browne's,  and  three  in  Sir  Michael 
Creagh's  Infimtry.  In  the  Parliament  of  1689  Terence 
Dermott,  who,  aa  Lord  Mayor  of  Dublin,  solemnly  presented 
its  keys  to  King  James  on  his  previous  arrival  there,  and  who 
was  a  Captain  in  Sir  Michael  Creagh's  In^ntry^  represented, 
with  his  Colonel,  that  City;  Terence  MacDennot  of 
Coolavin,  with  Captain  John  King,  represented  the  Borough 
of  Boyle;  while  Bobert  Dermot  was  one  of  the  Members  for 
Dundalk,  and  Bryan  Dermot  for  Carlingford.  The  Attainders 
of  1691  exhibit  the  names  of  Terence  Dermot,  senior  and 
junior,  of  Dublin;  Bryan  McDermott  of  Carlingford;  Bobert 
and  John  of  Drogheda,  merchants ;  Edward  of  Newry ; 
Dermid  of  Kilbeny,  in  Louth ;  William  of  Ballymartin^  in 


DILLON'S  INFANTBY.  279 

Kilkanny ;  Myles  of  C«rricksu\lagh ;  aod  Bryan  of  £ilronan» 
in  Boscommon. 


CAPTAIN  TERENCE  McDONOUGH. 

The  McDonoughs  w^e  a  powerful  Sept  in  the  County  of 
SligOy  having  an  extensive  tetritory  in  the  Barony  of  Conan ; 
they  were  also  at  a  very  early  date  established  in  the  County 
of  Cork,  where  they  held  the  noble  castle  of  Kanturk.  In 
the  former  County  they  are  considered  to  have  branched  from 
the  MacDermotSy  in  the  latter  from  the  McCartys,  This 
Sept  is  ezpreosly  stated  by  the  Four  Maeters  to  have  taken 
their  patronymic  in  Sligo,  from  a  Donough,  who  flourished 
there  in  1278.  The  same  Annalists  record,  with  much 
importance  of  ]angnage<  the  progress  of  MacDonough  of 
Tyrrerill  in  1397  to  the  plain  of  Connaught  (about  Boyle), 
with  his  whole  force,  property,  and  cattle^  in  order  to  aid  the 
O'Conor.  In  1446  ^^ihe  McDonoughs,  Turlough  Carraeh 
O'Connor  and  O'Conor  Don  having  joined  Mao  WiUiam  of 
Claniicarde,  for  the  purpose  of  appointing  a  McDonough  in 
Tyrrerill,  they  finally  agreed  on  electing  two  MacDonoughs, 
giving  half  of  the  country  to  each,  namely  to  John,  the  son  of 
Conor  McDonough,  and  to  Teigue,  the  son  of  Tomaltach 
More  McDonough;"  and,  accordingly,  the  sept  sent  two  re- 
presentatives to  Perrot's  memorable  Parliament  of  1585.  In 
1597  "  Ballymote  (in  Sligo),  which  had  been  in  possession  of 
the  Queen's  people  for  thirteen  years  till  this  time,  was  taken 
by  its  own  original  inheritors,  namely,  by  the  McDonoughs 
of  Corran."  By  a  patent  of  1617  various  manors,  castles, 
towns,  and  lands  of  their  ancient  territory  in  the  County  of 
Sligo  were,  according  to  the  policy  of  the  day,  re-gxanted  on 


280  KING  JAMES'S  IBISH  ABMY  LIST. 

new  and  more  forfeitable  tenures  to  different  members  of  this 
Sept,  as  also  to  those  of  O'Hara,  O'Higgins,  and  O'Connor; 
while  the  same  patent  includes  other  re-grants  to  the 
O'Dowdes  and  O'Graras  in  that  county  and  in  Mayo ;  and 
in  1677  Daniel  McDonough  had  a  grant  of  366  acres  in 
Clare ;  as  had  Turlough  M'Donough  of  116  in  Mayo. 

The  Attainders  of  1642  present  thfe  names  of  Cormack 
McDodagh  of  Knockecrawley ;  Melaghlin  of  Lismalronyne ; 
Daniel  of  Ardkill,  in  Kildare;  Hugh  buy  of  Coolkenny,  in 
Wicklow;  and  Connor  'Donnagh'  of  Baldungan,  in  Dublin; 
while  the  outlawries  of  1691  comprise  Terence  M'Donough 
of  Sligo;  William  of  Drumburgy ;  John,  Andrew,  Thaddeus, 
and  Michael  of  Ballindoe  ;  Laughlin  of  Ballyraghboe ; 
Dominick  of  Dungillagh  ;  Morgan  of  Carrowlack  ;  and 
Mulrooney  of  BaQymote,  all  in  Sligo  ^  with  Cornelius  of 
Camaghy,  in  Cork ;  and  James  ^  Donogh'  of  Arklow.  On 
the  present  Army  List,  besides  Captun  Terence,  there 
appear  Henry  M'Donough,  a  Lieutenant  in  Sir  Charles 
O'BrienV  Infantry  ;  Morgan  McDonough,  an  Ensign  in 
Colonel    Oliver    O'Gara's  ;    and  in   Sir  John  iltzgerald's 

Lifantry  Regiment, McDonough  was  Surgeon.     In  the 

Parliament  of  1689,  the  above  Terence  McDonough  sat 
as  one  of  the  B>epresentatives  of  the  Borough  of  Sligo. 
Hamilton,  in  his  Enniskillenersy  says  that  In  May,  1689, 
BaUyshannon  Was  relieved  by  them,  and  the  Irish  were 
obliged  to  evacuate.  ^All  their  foot,'  he  addd,  'fled  away 
towards  Sligo,  or  got  off  safe,  e:tcept  some  few  that  were 
taken  in  the  Fish  Island,  neat  the  toWn,  with  their  Captun, 
one  MacDonough,  a  Counsellor-at-law,  commonly  known  by 
the  name  of  *  blind  MacDonough.'  In  1690  one  of  the  Cork 
McDonoughs  was  appointed  by  King  James  a  Governor  of 
that  County. 


DILLON'S  INTANTBT.  281 


CAPTAIN  WALTER  PHILLIPS. 

The  Phillipses  of  Irelaiid  are,  with,  perhups,  the  only  excep- 
tion of  those  in  Ulster,  deduct,  in  their  family  pedigrees, 
from  Wales.  A  spedtaen  of  those  genealogical  records  in 
manuscript  drawn  up  in  the  last  century,  and  vouched,  as 
on  their  best  belief  and  local  knowledge,  by  the  attestation  of 
all  the  Bomaii  Catholic  Ptelates  of  Connaught,  referring  as 
it  does  to  Captain  Walter's  Mayo  line,  is  in  this  compiler's 
possession ;  that  peculiar  test  of  credence  here  mentioned, 
having  been  necessitated,  where,  after  the  Reformation, 
members  of  Catholic  Houses  in  Ireland  sought  preferment  in 
France,  Spain,  ot  Austria. 

It  commences  with  Cadifer  ap  Colhoyii)  Lord  of  Dyfed, 
who  was  of  the  same  tribe  with  Vortigem,  King  of  Britun, 
and  paternally  descended  from  Maximus,  Ejng  of  Britain 
and  Emperor  of  Rome.  This  Cadifer  Was  the  founder  of  the 
ennobled  line  of  Picton  Castle,  and  from  him  and  his  lady 
Helen,  only  daughter  and  heiress  of  Lleoch  Llawen  Vawr,  a 
Prince  of  Wales,  the  tree  springs  out  through  his  lineal  heir 
male,  Sir  Aar6n  ap  Rhys,  who  attended  Richard  the  First 
into  the  Holy  Land,  where  he  behaved  so  gallantly  that  he 
received  the  ordei"  of  Ejiighthood  of  the  Holy  Sepulchre,  and 
a  grant  of  armorials,  a  lion  rampant  sable  in  a  field  argent. 
His  descendant,  Philip  ap  Evan,  left  a  son  Meredith,  who 
was  the  first  that  took  the  name  of  Phillips,  styling  himself 
Meredith  Philips,  instead  of  ap  Phillip,  the  usual  character  of 
designation. 

Meredith  was  bom  in  1242,  and  while  his  eldest  son, 
Philip  Philips  of  Kylsant,  was  the  ancestor  of  the  family  of 


382  KING  JAMES'S  IBISH  ABKT  LIST. 

Picton  Castle,  his  youngest  son,  John  Phillips,  in  the  time  of 
Edward  the  First,  crossed  over  in  that  monarch's  service  to 
subdue  the  Irish  'rebeb'  in  Connaught,  where,  the  enterprise 
having  succeeded,  he  acquired  the  patrimony  of  Clonmore, 
with  the  townlands  annexed  in  the  County  of  Mayo,  in 
reward  of  his  services.  (It  is  of  tradition  that  other  o&hoots 
of  this  Welsh  stock  came  over  at  the  same  time  or  soon  after, 
and  established  the  name  in  different  Irish  localities.  In  the 
time  of  Queen  Elizabeth  they  are  recorded  as  of  the  gentry  of 
the  King's  County,  and  Waterford;  William  Phillips  was 
Sheriff  of  Waterford  in  1616.  They  soon  afierwards  t^ppear 
settied  in  various  parts  of  Tipperary,  Coric^  Kilkenny, 
Limerick,  and  Wexford.  Those  of  Munster  appear  to  have 
become  Protestants,  and  two  of  themj  Captain  Christopher 
Phillips  of  Limerick  and  Edward  Phillips  of  Cork,  were 
attainted  in  King  James's  Parliament  of  1689;  the  former 
was  one  of  the  representatives  of  the  borough  of  Askeaton  in 
King  William's  Parliament  of  1696.) 

The  above-mentioned  John  was  bom  in  1271,  as  was,  in 
the  eighth  generation  from  him,  Gilbert  Phillips  of  Clonmore, 
who  married  Mary  Jordan,  daughter  of  Walter  Jordan,  a 
Chief  of  the  adjacent  Barony  of  Gallen.  (Their  son,  Walter 
Phillips,  was  one  of  the  chiefs  who  in  1585  was  required  to 
testify  a  surrender  of  the  County  to  the  Lord  Deputy,  Sir 
John  Perrot,  on  the  composition;  he  did  not  however  execute 
tiie  degrading  transfer).     Another  son  of  Gilbert  and  Mary 

was  Philip  Phillips,  bom  in  1557,  married  a  daughter  of 

O'GKira,  Chief  of  the  Barony  of  Coolavin,  in  the  County  of 
Sligo,  and  their  son  Myles,  bom  in  1590,  married  Mable, 

daughter  of O'Donnelan  of  Rossedonelan,  County  of 

Boscommon.  (Various  inquisitions  were  taken  in  the  time  of 
James  the  First  in  Mayo,  on  Phillipses,  or,  as  they  were 


IXXUiOH'S  JNFAKTBT.  283 

there  slykd,  Mao  Fhillibe^,  sons  of  Pbillip ;  while  Dr. 
O'Dcmovaa  suggests  that  the  Mac  Phillibeen  in  the  Barony 
of  Burrishoole  in  that  County  were  a  braneh  of  the  Burkes.) 
Walter,  the  eldest  bom  c^  Myles  and  Mable,  became  a  Major 
in  the  army,  and  he  is  expressly  named  in  the  declaration  of 
King  Charles's  gradtude,  ^for  services  beyond  the  seas,'  being 
styled  Captain  Walter  Phillips  of  Clonmore,  in  Mayo.  He 
married  Wini&ed,  daughter  of  Dudley  Costello  of  the  Barony 
of  Costello.  They  had  issue  Philip  and  John ;  the  latter 
married  Eleanor  daughter  of  Captain  William  TaaSe,  fifth 
son  of  the  first  Viscount  Corran>  and  who  was  himself  lineal 
ancestor  of  the  present  Viscount  Taaffe*  A  third  son  Charles 
was,  with  his  eldest  brother  Philip*  adjudged  entitled  to  the 
benefit  of  the  Articles  of  Limerick*  the  latter,  commonly 
called  Captain  Phillips,  Was  bom  in  Austrian  Belgium  in 
1653,  where  his  fiither  then  sojourned  with  the  Royal  Family, 
whence  on  the  Bestoration  these  exiles  returned  to  Clonmore ; 
and  Philip,  in  1682,  married  Bridget  O'Mulloy,  daughter  of 
Edward  O'Mulloy,  Chief  of  Oughtertyry,  County  of  Ros- 
common. Their  eldest  son  Myles,  bom  in  1684,  married  in 
1712  Juliana,  daughter  of  Edward  Browne  of  TuUimore, 
County  of  Mayo,  by  whom  he  had  issue  Edward  his  eldest 
son,  Phillip  Phillips  his  second  son,  Archbishop  of  Tuam, 
('lately  deceased,'  says  the  Manuscript  aboye  cited),  and  John 
who  died  unmarried*  Edward,  in  October,  1739,  married 
Helena,  daughter  of  John  O'Kelly  of  Castle  Kelly,  County 
of  Gralway,  by  whom  he  had  one  son,  Thomas,  bom  in 
January,  1749,  who  in  1767  manied  Catherine,  daughter  of 
Philip  and  Anne  O'Byme  of  Killoughter,  County  of  Wicklow. 
Their  issue  'are'  Edward,  bom  24th  May,  1768 ;  Philip,  bom 

1770;  and  Myles,  bom  1774. Here  this  ancient  Pedigree 

concludes.    Edward,  the  eldest  son,  married  in  1794,  Anne, 


284  KING  JAMB8*S  IBI8H  ABMT  LIST. 

daughter  of  Doctor  Terence  Mac  Dermot^  of  the  house  of 
Coolayin,  and  had  issue  Thomas,  (and  two  other  sons  who 
died  unmarried),  with  three  daughters.  Thomas,  the  eldest 
son  of  Edward,  married  in  1828  Alicia,  the  only  surviving 
daughter  of  Doctor  OTenall,  of  the  old  Sept  of  Annaly,  and 
he  has  by  her  three  sons  and  four  daughters.  This  family, 
of  such  ancient  origin  and  old  respectability  in  Mayo,  has, 
in  the  bloodless  revolution  of  the  Incumbered  Estates^  Com- 
mission,  been  uprooted  from  the  Boil«  They  are  there  no 
more. 

It  may  be  here  mentioned  that  Major  Dudley  Phillips, 
Lieutenants  Richard  and  Edward,  and  Ensign  Greoige 
Phillips  appear  on  the  Boll  of  the  '1649*  Officers,  in  con- 
nexion with  adjudications  decreed  after  the  Sestoration. 


LIEUTENANT  PAUL  RUTLfiDGE. 

Ik  1676  a  Thomas  Butledge  had  a  confirmatory  grant  of 
139  acres  in  Tipperary,  while  this  officer  is  described,  in 
the  Inquisition  taken  on  his  Attainder,  as  '  of  Clontikilty, 
County  Mayo.'  A  James  Butledge,  on  the  same  roll  of 
outiawries,  was  possessed  of  property  in  the  town  of  Galway, 
off  which  Catherine  Butledge,  otherwise  Blake,  claimed  and 
was  allowed  jointure.  A  Lieutenant  Edward  '  Butledge ' 
was  one  of  the  '  1649  '  officers* 


]>ILLON*8  INFANTST.  285 


LIEUTENANT  MURROUGH  MELAGHLIN. 

The  0*Melaghlin  was  one  of  the  five  Septs  eligible  to 
the  Bovereignty  of  Leinster,  and  the  power  of  the  fiunily 
and  extent  of  the  territory  over  which  it  lorded  as  a 
Royal  appropriation,  are  evinced  in  the  grant  firom  Henry 
the  Second  to  Hugh  de  Lacy,  making  over  to  him  the 
whole  Province  of  Meath,  including  Westmeath  (of  modem 
partition);  *to  hold  same  in  as  ftdl  and  ample  a  manner 
as  Murrough  O'Melaghlin  had  tl^eretofore  held  the  same;' 
yet,  in  the  lapse  of  centuries,  this  great  name  has  become 
extinct,  or  is  only  sought  to  be  traced  in  existing  asami- 
lations,  as  M^Loughlin,  O'L^ughlin,  &c. 

According  to  the  native  chronicles,  a  daughter  of  O'Me- 
laghlin, King  of  Meath  ip  the  ninth  century,  was  the  agent 
of  killing  Turgesius  the  Danish  tyrant,  by  a  stratagem 
like  that  related  by  Plutarph  iq,  his  Life  of  Pelopidas. 
At  the  commencement  of  the  eleventh  century,  Malachy 
O'Melaghlin,  theretofore  the  acknowledged  King  of  Ireland, 
was  deposed  by  Brien  Boroimhe,  In  1105  the  territory 
of  Meath  was  divided  between  the  sons  of  Donald  O'Me- 
laghlin. *  In  the  progress  of  the  same  century,  Murrough 
O'Melaghlin,  the  acknowledged  King  of  Meath,  was  one 
of  the  chief  leaders  in  the  feudal  conflicts  that  opened 
Ireland  to  the  English  adventurers;  while  the  abduction 
of  his  daughter,  then  wife  of  O'Rourke,  is  effectively  nar- 
rated by  the  Annalists  as  leading  in  that  invasion.  His 
Kingdom  passed  from  him,  and  even  his  great  mensal 
patrimony,  the  Province  of  Meath,*  was  given,  as  before 
mentioned, — a  Palatinate  to  Hugh  de  Lacy. 


286  KING  JAHE8*d  IBISH  ABUT  LIST. 

In  1264  *Art  O'Melaghlin  burned  all  the  oastles  and 
to¥ms  in  Delvin,  in  Calraigh,  and  in  Breaghmaine,  and 
expelled  all  the  Engliflh  therefrom;  he  aftervmids  took 
hostages  from  their  ohiefs.*  This  family  thereupon  became 
of  such  importance  as  to  be  one  of  the  native  Septs,  who 
were  held  entitled  to  the  priyilege  of  using  English  law. 
In  1310  the  King  gave  the  Boyal  assent  to  an  election 
made  in  the  Convent  of  Clonard,  by  the  Prioress  and 
Sisteihood,  of  Mora,  daugfatCT  of  the  O'Melaghlin,  to  be 
Abbatess  thermn.  In  1314,  when  Edward  the  Second 
sought  the  aid  of  the  Irish  magnates,  he  directed  an  especial 
letter  missive  to  *  CfMelan-HelyUj  Duel  JBtbemarum  MiduB^ 

In  1462,  when  Ibe  remaining  estates  of  this  fiimilj  were 
invaded  by  the  Palesmen,  aided  by  the  Lord  Deputy^  the 
native  dans  espoused  their  cause,  and  took  the  Viceroy 
prisoner.  In  the  foUowing  year,  Connor  O'Melaghlin 
died,  Bishop  of  Elphin,  in  a  few  years  after  which  ^the 
O'Melagfalin/  writes  Dr.  Stuart  in  his  Armaghy  ^was  one 
of  the  Irish  chiefs,  who  renounced  the  papal  authority, 
and  swore  allegianoe  to  Henry  the  Eigfatli,  In  1562 
Murrough  Olifelaghlin  was  recognised  Chief  of  the  Sept, 
soon  after  which  Sir  Henry  Sidney  constituted  his  territory, 
by  the  description  of  ^  Clan-Colman,*  otherwise  ^O'Me- 
laghlin*s  country,*  parcel  of  the  County  of  Westmeath.  In 
1580  Callagfa,  son  of  Turiough,  son  of  Lysagh  O'Melaghlin 
of  the  Coolins  in  Westmeath,  sold  all  his  right  to  certain 
lands  therein  to  Thomas  L'Estrange  of  Ballymore^Lough 
Suidy.  In  the  time  of  James  the  first,  this  Sept  was 
stripped  of  a  very  oonidderable  portion  of  their  old  territory, 

a  large  tract  of  which,  described  as  '  O'Melaghlin's  Countay,* 

• 

situated    about  Clonmacnoise,  and   oomprising  advowsons, 
rectories,  ohurohes,  chief  rents,  lands,  £o.,^was  granted  to 


DILLOH'g  DTPAirrBY.  287 

Biebard,  Earl  of  Clanrioarde;  while  abont  the  same  time 
FifMicifl  Blundel,  ^  Clerk  of  the  Conmuasion  for  Defective 
Titles/  had  a  grant  of  other  O'Melagfalin  estates  in  the 
Countjr  of  Westmeath.  When  Clare  was  first  planted 
into  a  county,  Fynnyn  AfcLanghlin  was  seised  of  castles 
therein,  at  Boecoe  ai^d  Legivarrow.  On  the  attainders 
of  1642  only  two  of  this  name  appear,  William  dhu  Mac 
Melagfalin  and  Edward  Mac  Melaghlin  of  BallyshanduiF, 
Comity  of  Wicklow,  while  Manriee  O'Melaghlin,  chief  of 
his  S^,  is  recorded  as  having  in  1646  repudiated  ^the 
peace  of  Ormonde*  and  leagued  himself  with  the  Ecclesi* 
astie&  The  outlawries  of  1691  name  but  one,  Maolseachlin 
O'Melaghlin,  describing  him  as  of  Lough-Mask,  County  of 
Mayo;  so  completely  had  the  &mily  been  expelled  from  their 
ancient  province^ 


^mm^m 


LIEUTENANT  JAMES  LYNAM, 

This  surname  is  of  Irish  record  from  the  time  of  Edward 
the  Third,  principally  in  connection  with  Meath.  Early 
in  the  reign  of  his  successor,  William  Lynam  was  appointed 
a  Guardian  of  the  Peace  for  the  barony  of  Lune,  in  that 
county;  soon  after  which  he  died,  when  the  King  committed 
to  the  Sheriff  of  Meath,  in  consideration  of  his  heavy  ex- 
penee  and  losses  in  treating  with  O'Neill  of  Ulster,  the 
custody,  of  all  the  hinds  of  said  William  to  hold,  witii  the 
knights'  fees,  wardships,  and  marriages  theieunto  belonging, 
during  the  minority  of  Hugh,  his  son  and  heir.  John 
Lynham  had,  at  the  same  time,  the  custody  of  other  posses- 
flions  theretofore  belonging  to  said  William,  la  1399  Bichaid 
Lynham  was  guardian  of  the  peace  in  the  Barony  of  Moyfen* 


288  Kora  james'b  ibish  abmt  list. 

rath  and  ooBtodee  of  oertain  lands  in  Meatk  He  was  the  son 
of  a  Nicholas  Lynam,  and  fiither  of  Peter  and  Bichard  junior. 
The  Utter  was  in  1412  a  joint  costodee  of  the  temponJities 
of  the  See  of  Meath  dnriog  its  Tacancy.  In  1425  he  was 
constituted  Banger  of  the  Boyal  Park  of  Trim,  with  the 
serjeantoy  of  the  manor.  In  seven  years  after,  Nicholas  Lynam 
was  seised  of  two  parts  of  the  manors  of  Adamstown  and  Bel- 
lewstown,  with  two  parts  of  a  water-mill  at  the  latter  locality, 
and  certain  other  rights  in  weirs,  mills,  Ac  At  Adamstown 
the  fiuoily  continued  down  to  the  dyH  war  of  1641,  when 
Bichard  Lynam,  styled  of  that  locality,  was  attainted  on 
three  inquisitions,  with  Bartholomew  Lynham  of  Swords,  and 
James  Lynham  of  Dublin,  merchant.  The  abore  lieutenant 
*  was  probably  grandson  of  the  latter*  but  his  name  does  not 
appear  on  the  Boll  of  Outlawries  of  1691,  and  only  those  of 
Christopher  and  Adam  Lynam,  of  Great  Treffims  in  Meath. 


ENSIGN  THOMAS  DOLPHIN. 

This  Bumame  appears  upon  the  native  annals  from  tiie  time 
of  Henry  the  Third,  being  chiefly  located  in  Ghdway. 


ENSIGN  EDMtJND  DOWELL. 

This  officer  does  not  appear  on  the  Attamders  of  1691; 
the  only  persons  named  there  are  Hugo  and  Patrick  O'DoweU 
of  Tulljrard,  County  of  Down;  and  Dionysius  *  Dowell*  of 
Moneytagh  (Mantua),  County  of  Boscommon,  while  it  may 
be  mentioned  that  in  1678,  Allan,  son  and  heir  of  James 
Dowellf  passed  patent  for  74  acres  in  tiie  County  of  Bos- 
common. 


piliiOn's  jnfantbt.  289 


ENSIGNS  THOMAS  AND  CHABLES 

COSTELLO. 

Ths  CostelloB,  oty  as  the  fiunilj  were  iQore  usually  styled 
on  the  Irish  records,  Mc  Costellos,  deriye  their  origin  from 
Hostilio,  the  second  son  of  Gilbert  de  Angulo.  In  1192 
his  &ther  (said  Gilbert)  led  what  the  AnnaUsta  call  an  army 
to  Easroa  near  Ballysbannon,  and  there  erected  a  castle. 
Myles  Mo  Costello  inyaded  the  country  of  Mac  Bonnall  in 
1247,  bat  was  repulsed.  In  1487,  say  the  Four  Masters, 
John  dhu  Mc  Costello,  Lord  of  Slieve  Lugha  (m  Mayo) 
died,  and  two  of  the  Sept  were  nominated  to  succeed  him; 
and  in  1565,  nrhen  recounting  the  militairy  expedition  of  Sir 
Bichaxd  Bingham  through  that  county,  they  mark  Castle- 
more,  near  Ballaghadereen,  as  the  chief  seat  of  the  Mac 
Costello,  while  a  survey  of  Connaught,  drawn  up  in  1586, 
names  Ballyhaunes,  in  Mayo,  as  the  territory  of  Mac  Cos- 
tellow,  alias  '  Baron  Nangle.* 

In  1666,  say  the  Bawdon  Papers^  ^  the  great  tory  Colonel 
Costello  was  killed.'  '  The  name  does  not  appear  on  the 
attainders  of  1641,  and  only  that  of  William  Costello,  of 
Boss,  County  of  Wexford,  on  those  of  1691 ;  but,  by  the 
proceedings  before  the  Court  of  Claims  in  1700,  it  is  shown 
that  a  Thomas  *  Costello*  there  claimed  a  remainder  in  Mayo 
lands,  forfeited  by  Miles  ^Costelloe;'  his  petition  was,  how- 
ever, ^dismist/  Edmund  Costello  appears  soon  after  on 
Irish  record,  settled  in  that  County;  and  his  son  John 
having  married  Clotilda,  a  daughter  of  David  Bourke,  of 
Partry,  had  by  her  two  sons,  Edmund  and  Jordan.  From 
the  former  this  ancient  fiumly  has  been  continued  at  Ed- 
mundstown,  in  Mayo,  to  the  present  day*. 

VOL.  11.  u 


290  KING  JAMES'S  IBXSH  ABHT  LIST. 


ENSIGN  PHELJM  HAKT. 

The  muaie  of  Hart  or  '  Hert '  is  of  Irish  record  from  the 
time  of  Edward  the  First,  while  O^Dugan  says  that  the 
O'Harts  were  an  ancient  Sept,  settled  in  the  immediate 
vidnity  of  Tara.  On  the  Attainders  of  1642  are  two 
O'Hartes  in  Cork  and  one  *  Hart  *  in  Dublin  County.  The 
Adjudications  in  favour  of  the  *  1649  *  Officers  exhibit  the 
names  of  Captains  Gheorge  and  Bichard  Hart,  as  well  as  of 
another  Richard,  styled  'Corporal  of  the  field.*  The  Harts 
attainted  in  1691  were  Mejler  Ebrt  of  Shannon  and  Henry 
Hart  of  CasUelough-dergan  in  Sligo,  with  Phelim  H^rt, 
described  as  of  Donore  in  said  County,  and  of  Bamanagh  in 
Mayo.  At  the  sales  of  1703,  the  estate  of  a  John  Hart, 
described  as  '  of  Blunddstown,  County  of  Dublin,*  was  sold 
as  forfeited  property  by  the  Commissioners.  Besides  this 
Ensign,  a  Simon  Hart  held  the  same  rank  in  the  In&ntry 
Be^ment  Qf  Sir  Maurice  Eustace^ 


LOBD  QALWAT'S  INVANTBT. 


291 


REGIMENTS   OP   INFANTRY. 


The  ColoneL 

Mofrogb  YlthiBtty, 
Lieat.-Col. 


Major. 
Terence  ICagnth. 
Miles  BovriEe. 
Thomas  Bomke. 
John  Power. 
M'Laaghlin  Donnelan. 
John  M'Goghlan. 
Thomas  Bomke. 
EdmimdlLally. 
John  Canol}. 
James  Powei. 
Coraeliiis  HoraU} 
James  Lynch, 
UHok'Banrck.' 

Dalton. 

.DIUon, 


ULICK,   LOBB  6ALWAT. 

Lieutenantt, 
]Bdward  Tolly. 
James  Lynd^ 


Terence  Magrath. 
Bedmond  Archdeacon, 
Ulick  Bonrke. 
David  Stapleton. 
McLaughlin  Daly. 
Gomeilxas  CoghlaiL 
Richard  Bonrke. 
William  Kelly. 
Wmiam  Carroll. 
Bichard  Bonike. 
BogerHonuL 

Dominick  M^rtui. 

Bmke. 

%!  ■  -■  Flahertier 


Bichard  WolfiacBton. 
Daniel  Mally. 


James  Egan. 
Caibery  lEgaa. 
Hubert  Bonrke. 
William  Synon. 
Gerald  Bonrke. 
Morgan  ^  Cnolaghan.' 
James  Bonrke. 
James  LaD^. 
Daniel  CanoUf 
Thomas  LyncI^ 
Lawrence  CanoD. 

«-»  Lynch. 


Dillon,  Chqplam. 


292  KING  JAMA8*S  IBI8H  ABICT  USX. 


COLONEL  ULICK  DE  BUBGH,  LOKD  GALWAY. 

The  fomily  of  Bourke  and  Burke  has  been  noticed  bb  ftdly 
as  here  allowable,  at  the  Earl  of  Clanricarde's  Begiment  of 
Lifimtrj,  ante^  p.  131,  &c.  This  Ulick  waa  the  eldest  son  of 
William,  Earl  of  Clonricardey  by  his  second  wife.  He  was 
created  Baron  Tyaquin  and  Viscount  Galway.  Lodge 
characterizes  him  as  a  nobleman  of  tnie  courage,  and  endued 
wiA  laany  good  quaUties.  He  fought  in  ihis  amy  when 
only  twenty'^two  years  of  age,  and  feU  at  Aughrim.  "  Some 
say,"  admits  Story,  '^  that  my  Lord  Galway  had  hard 
measures  from  some  of  our  troops,  who  Ulled  him  after  he 
had  surrendered  himself  a  prisoner,  ^ot  to  themselves  but  to 
some  others;"  while  Dr.  Leslie  more  ej^licitly  writes, 
^  several,  who  had  quarters  given  to  them,  were  afler  killed  in 
cold  blood  ;  in  which  number  were  the  Lord  Galway  and 
Colonel  Charles  Moore/ 


LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  MOEROGH 

OTLAHEKTY. 

Seb  of  this  Sept  very  fully,  D^ Alton's  AnnaU  of  Boyle^ 
vol.  2,  p.  192,  <&c.  It  was  ori^bally  settled  in  the  Barony  of 
Clare,  County  of  Ghdway ;  whence  in  the  thirteenth  century 
they  were  driven  to  the  western  side  of  Lough  Corrib,  and 
were  there  styled  Lords  of  Lur,  «.«.  'Western'  Connaught. 
On  the  islands  of  that  water  they  had  many  castles,  traces  of 


I«QB]>  GALWAT*S  INFAIH^BT.  293 

some  of  whieh  still  remain.  *'  In  1132/'  writes  Hardiman,* 
''  the  King  of  Munster  despatched  a  body  of  men  by  sea  to 
take  the  Castle  of  Gaiway,  which  his  Greneral  Cormac  Mac 
Carthy  having  e£fected,  put  the  garrison  to  the  sword^ 
levelled  and  destroyed  the  Castle  and  Town,  and  soon  after 
defeated  and  slew  Connor  OTlabertie,  Lord  of  lar- 
Connaught."  In  1204  died  Moriertagh  O'Flaherty,  Lord  of  / 
West  Connaught ;  as  did  Mahon  QTlaherty,  Chief  of  Clan-  ^  ^/  ^^  ^ 
Donal,  in  1216  ;  and  Hugh  OTlaherty,  Lord  of  West 
Connaught,  in  1236  j\  while  in  1248,  say  the  Four  Masters, 
^  Connemara  was,  throughout  its  whole  extent,  plundered  by 
the  English  ;  whence  they  marched  their  forces  against 
OTlaherty,  who  defeated  and  slew  many  of  them/  In 
1243  King  Henry  summoned  the  OTlaherty  to  do  militaiy 
service  against  the  King  of  Sooiland4  '  Donogh  OTlaherty, 
Bishop  of  Killalla,  the  most  eminent  of  the  Irish  in  piety, 
died  in  1306  at  Dunboyne,  on  his  way  to  Dublin,  and  was 
honourably  interred  in  the  house  of  the  Virgin  Mary,  at 
Mullingar.*  At  the  dose  of  that  century,  William  '  O'Flardy,' 
Chaplain,  having  petitioned  the  King  for  leave  to  hold  a 
benefice  in  the  Diocese  of  Clojme,  nan  obstante  the  acts 
excluding  natives  from  filling  such,  received  permission 
therefor. 

To  Perrot's  Parliament  in  1585,  **  no  one  of  note  went 
from  the  Western  Province  of  Connaught*  except  Morrogh 
('  na  dnagh^'  '  of  the  battle-axes,")  the  son  of  Teigue,  son  of 
Morrogh,  son  of  Boderic  OTlaherty .§  Before  this  time  the 
O'Briens  were  expelled  from  the  Isles  of  Arran  by  the 
OTlahertiefl  of  lar-Connaught,  when  a  Commission  issued 


*  Bxslory  ofGahoay^  p.  40.  t  Annals  Four  Masters. 

%  Lynch  on  Feudal  Digmtia^  p.  191.        §  Four  Masters^  ad  ann. 


294  Kma  JAMS8*S  ntisH  abmt  list.  . 

which  found  them  to  be  the  right  of  the  Queen,  and  she 
thereupon  granted  them  to  John  Bawson  of  Athlone.*  It  is 
not,  therefoi^,  to  be  wondered  at,  that  this  ousted  Sept 
sought  to  revenge  themselves  on  Elizabeth's  Government; 
dnd  that,  having  first  passed  in  their  gallies  from  Arran  and 
Ghdway,  to  aid  the  Spaniards  when  they  landed  at  Smerwick; 
they  made  such  further  show  of  remstance  in  1601,  as  is 
aUuded  to  ante  p.  112.  In  1606  John  King,  of  Dublin, 
had  a  grant  from  the  Crown  of  castles  and  lands,  estates  of 
the  O'Flaheiiies  in  the  County  of  Galway , '  slain  in  rebellion  ;* 
while  in  1610  Morrough-ne-Moyer  O'Ffiahertie  of  Benowen 
had  a  grant  of  the  castles  or  forts  of  Benowen  and  Ballyna- 
hinch,  with  various  lands,  fisheries,  and  chief-rents,  described 
as  having  come  to  the  Crown  by  the  attainder  of  Teigue,  son 
of  Sir  Morrogh-ne-<loe  O'Flahertie,  ^  lately  dain  in  rebellion.* 
In  two  years  after.  Sir  Bobert  Newcomen,  Knight,  had  a 
grant  of  other  Gbdway  lands,  part  of  the  estate  of  said 
Teigue ;  and  in  1615  Hugh  O'Flaherty  of  Moycullen,  in 
Qalway,  had  livery  of  his  estates,  as  son  and  heir  of  Boger 
O'Flaherty,  deceased. 

MorrOgh  Flaherty  of  Culviu,  County  of  Westmeath,  is  the 
only  one  of  this  name  on  the  Outlawries  of  1642.  In  Crom- 
well's Act  of  1652,  said  Morrough-ne-Moyer  OTlaherty, 
described  as  ef  the  County  of  Gralway,  and  Teigue  0*Flaherty 
were  excepted  from  pardon  for  life  and  estate.  The  former 
passed  out  of  Ireland  to  serve  King  Charles  the  Second 
'beyond  the  seas,'  and  received  that  Monarch's  thanks 
therefor  in  the  clause  of  Royal  graiUude  embodied  in  the  Act 
of  Settlement  Boderic  O'Flahertie,  the  well-'known  author 
of  the  *  Ogygvai  was  bom  in  1630,  within  the  old  fiunily 

I  ■■.*■*   I  ■  11  .  I  ■  !■  It  ■■«■ 

*  HatdmmCt  Gokoay^  p.  319* 


LORD  galwat's  uteaktbt.  295 

territory  at  Moycullen,  his  interest  in  which  wae  lost  on  the 
confiscations  of  1641.  His  treatise,  the  Ogygia^  he  divided 
into  three  parts.  In  the  first,  he  gives  an  account  of  the 
different  colonies^  that  from  time  to  time  successivelj  settled 
in  Ireland,  the  names  by  which  the  island  was  then  known, 
its  dimensions,  and  situation,  the  divisions  and  bounds  of  its 
provinces,  with  the  maimer  of  electing  and  inaugurating  the 
several  kings.  In  the  second  he  endeavours  to  synchronize 
the  history  of  his  country  with  that  of  other  known  nations, 
firom  the  Deluge  to  the  year  of  Christ,  428,  the  time  when 
the  last  Heathen  King  of  Ireland,-  Dathy^  died.  In  the  third 
he  prosecutes  more  fully  the  history  of  the  Irish  Kings 
during  the  same  period,  and  the  manners  of  the  people.  This 
work  he  dedicated  to  James,  then  Duke  of  York;*  and  he 
was  living  on  the  old  soil  in  1709,  when  Mr«  Molineuz,  the 
antiquary,  made  him  a  visits  which  is  very  interestingly 
spoken  of  in  a  Manuscript  in  Trinity  College^  Dublin, 
(I.  4,  12.)  Nine  years  after  he  died,  in  the  89th  year  of  his 
age,  of  want,  as  is  alleged  in  a  tract  recentiy  published  by 
the  Irish  Arclueological  Sodety. 

In  1641  Morrough  dhu  O'Fflahertie  was  chosen  one  of  the 
Captains  of  the  forces  raised  by  the  Assembly  then  held  at 
Loughrea,  and  his  able  renstance  to  the  Marquis  of  Clan- 
ricarde,  is  often  alluded  to  in  the  Memoirs  of  that  nobleman. 
Amongst  the  nobles  and  chiefs  who  went  out  of  Ireland  to 
Charles  the  Second  in  his  exile,  and  who  were  afterwards 
specially  mentioned  in  his  Letter  firom  Breda,  was  this 
Captain    Morrough,  then  the  O'Fflahortie,  and  who    had 

married  the  daughter  of  Viscoimt  Mayo. Besides  this 

officer,  whose  Lieutenanf^Colonelcy  was  soon  after  given  to 

•  Ware's  WrUerSy  p.  271. 


296  KINa  JAH£8*8  1BI6H  ABMT  LIST. 

John  PoWer,  — ^-  Flahertie  Was  a  Lieutenant  in  Clan- 
ricarde's  In&ntry,  as  was  Hagh  Flaherty  in  Colonel  Hewaid 
Oxburgh's  ;  and  three  of  the  name  were  commissioned  in 
Lord  Bophin's.  The  Roll  of  the  ensuing  Outlawries  names 
Teigue,  son  of  Morgan  Flaherty  of  Ballynahinch,  and  Hugo 
and  Patrick  Flaherty  of  Park,  in  the  County  of  Gkdway,  but 
has  no  mention  of  this  Morrough;  while  at  the  Court  of 
1700,  Bryan  Flaherty  claimed  and  was  allowed  a  term  for 
years  in  Coimty  of  Gridway  lands  *  forfeited  by  Morrogh 
Flaherty.* 

Amongst  the  Manuscripta  of  MaraVs  Library j  (V.  3.  1. 
25,  No.  25),  is  a  Petition  of  Comet  Bobert  Flaherty,  in 
which  he  states  ''that,  h&ng  bred  a  Protestant,  he  had 
ever  sought  to  advance  the  cause  of  King  William  and  that 
religion,  that  he  had  long  been  and  still  was  suflfering  for  his 
principles,  &c.,  and  prayed  Boyal  relief."  In  the  alarm 
which  existed  in  1745,  on  the  assertion  of  the  Pretender's 
title  in  Scotland,  the  representative  of  this  family  proffered 
to  the  Viceroy  (the  Earl  of  Chesterfield)  at  Dublin  Castle, 
the  most  solemn  assurances  of  his  fidelity  and  of  that  of 
his  fiunily  and  people  to  the  King's  person  and  government. 
His  grandson,  John,  inherited  the  remaining  fiimily  estates, 
and,  accepting  a  commission  in  his  Majesty's  army,  was 
styled  therein  Sir  John  O'Fflahertie,  his  ancestors  having 
been  always  held  to  be  hereditary  Knights  of  West  Con- 
naught.  Sir  John's  son  and  heir,  says  Lynch,*  is  the 
present  Thomas  Henry  O'Fflahertie  of  Lemonfield,  County 
of  Qalway,  who  still  inherits  a  portion  of  the  fiunily  estates. 
In  1747  Captain  Francis  Flaherty,  in  Lally's  Begiment, 
was  severely  woimded  in  the  battle  at  Lauffield.    In  1768 

^  Feudal  DigmHes^  ^  163. 


LOBD  aALWAY*S  INFANTRY.  297 

died  at  Nice  Count  O^Flaherty,  who  had  been  long  in  th& 
Imperial  service;  and  in  two  years  after  died  Greneral 
O'Flahertj,  for  many  years  in  the  service  of  Spaini 


JA 


CAPTAIN  MELAGHLIN  DONELAN. 

Ths  Sept  of  the  O'Donelans,  fix>m  which  this  Captain 
descended,  were  Chiefs  of  Clan-Breasail  in  the  Barony  of 
Leitrim,  County  of  Ghdway  t  and  are  so  located  by  O'Dugan 
in  his  Topographical  Poem  on  Ireland*  They  also  ruled 
over  Hy  Tuirtre,  a  territory  lying  along  the  northern  shores 
of  Lough  Neagh,  comprising  the  Baronies  of  Toome  and 
Antrim,  in  the  County  of  Antrim.  They  derive  their 
Hneage  £rom  Murrough  Mullethan^  a  King  of  Connaught 
in  the  seventh  century^  from  whose  time  frequent  annals 
of  their  obits  in  the  Irish  Chronicles  commemorate  them 
as  ^  Chief  Poets '  of  that  Province^  Artgal,  the  grandson 
of  Murrough,  was,  according  to  tradition,  crowned  King  of 
Connaught,  on  a  lofty  hiU,  mxth  of  where  the  house  of 
'Ballydonnelan  now  stands;  and  a  parcel  of  the  estate  was 
hence  called  Dun-na-ree,  {.«.,  the  King's  Mount<  Eighteen 
of  the  Sept  fell  at  the  battle  of  Turlogh-vohan,  near 
Tuam,  fought  in  the  eleventh  century  between  O'Conor 
and  O'Bourke.*  In  that  century,  at  1090,  the  Annals  of 
Tigemach  have  the  interesting  entry,  ^The  reliquaries  of 
Columb-kill  ue.  the  Bell  of  the  Kings  and  the  Cuille-baigh 
came  from  Tlroonell  with  120  ounces  of  ulver,  and  Angus 
O'Donellan,  then  coarb  of  Kella,  was  the  one  who  brought 

*  C^IhtmaCs  Ry  Mame^  p.  170 


298  Koio  jameb'b  uasa  army  ubt. 

diem  tliitlier  tarn  the  NortL*  In  1334  Wmkyn  ODoiiiiebii 
is  miaxtiooedf  as  having  been  taken  prisoner  in  the  <^«»fl^<^*" 
of  the  Pale;  and  in  1412  Tnlly  ODondan,  thm  Chie^ 
binlt  the  Castle  of  BaUydonekn  on  the  site,  it  is  related, 
of  a  moie  ancient  stroo^idd  of  his  fiunily.  He  also  boilt 
a  diapel  and  fiunilj  cemeteiy  at  the  abbey  of  KilconneU 
hence  called  *  Chapd-ToUy; 

Mekgfalin  OT>onelan,  the  great  gnndson  of  l^nflj,  died 
at  BaUydcHidan  in  1648;  he  was  fiUher  of  Dr.  Ndiemiah, 
who  was  educated  at  Cambridge,  and  ocmsecrated  Aichlnshop 
of  Toam  by  Qneen  Elizabeth's  patent  in  1595.  He  married 
Elizabeth  O'Donndl^  dai^ter  of  the  thm  Earl  of  Tyr- 
oonnell,  and  died  in  1609,  tearing  by  her«  John,  his  eldest 
son,  and  James,  who  beeame  Lord  Chief  Justice  of  the 
Common  Pleas  in  Ireland.  An  Edmund  Donelan,  most 
probably  a  relatiTe  of  the  Archbishop,  was  in  1609  pre- 
sented by  the  King  to  the  Bectory  of  Clonemore  and  the 
YicaiBge  of  Cloghran,  in  the  Diocese  of  Ossoiy,  vacant 
by  the  death  of  Di*.  Nehemiah  Domielan,  who  had  held 
same  in  commendam;  while  another  Edmund  Donelan  had 
a  grant  in  1669  of  Clogher  and  other  denominations,  667 
acres  in  Boscommon^  205  in  Westmeath,  and  64  in  Sligo. 
An  Ensign  William  Donelan  was  one  of  the  '  1649'  Officers 
whose  claim  for  serriees  to  the  Boyal  cause  in  Ireknd, 
was  recognised  on  the  Restoration.  The  aforesaid  John 
was  the  great-grand&ther  of  the  above  officer,  who  rose 
to  the  rank  of  Colonel  and  was  wounded  at  Aughrim,  but 
afterwards  was  comprehended  in  the  Articles  of  Limerick. 
He  had  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Bobert  Dillon,  (ancestor 
of  the  Lords  Clonbrock,)  and  died  at  his  house  in  Dublin 
in  1726|  leaving  iasuei  through  which  this  fiunily  has  been 
rince  represented,  and  is  now  by  another  Malachy.    James 


LOBD  GALWAT*fl  IKFANTBIT.  299 

Dondan,  the  brothei^  of  the  above  officer,  wbb  a  Cuptain 
and  afterwards  a  Major  in  Lord  Louth's  Regiment  of 
Li&ntry.  At  the  close  of  the  campaign  he  passed  into 
France,  where  he  obtained  a  Commission  and  rank  from 
Louis  the  Fourteenth,  but  was  killed  in  Piedmont  in  1693« 
By  King  James's  Parliament  of  Dublin  a  'Lady'  Donnellan 
was  outlawed,  while  the  more  effective  attainders  of  1691 
included  Edward  Donnelan  of  £illenane,  Coimty  Galway, 
with  James  Donelan  of  Ballydonelan,  either  of  whom 
appears  to  have  been  the  Gaptaon,  hereafter  noted  on  Lord 
Louth's  Regiment. 

In  1696  Nehemiah  Donellan,  a  collateral  of  this  House, 
being  then  a  Baron  of  the  Irish  Exchequer^  was  appointed 
one  of  the  Commissioners  of  the  Great  Seal,  and  had  at 
the  same  time  a  grant  of  lands  in  the  Coutities  of  Galway 
and  Roscommon.  In  1703  he  was  appointed  Chief  Baron. 
This  Nehemiah  was  the  Surviving  son  o£  the  aforesaid 
Sir  James  Donellan,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas. 
He  had  married  Mary^  daughter  of  Alderman  John  Preston 
of  Dublin,  and  had  issue  by  her  James,  John^  and  William 
Donellan.  She  died  in  September,  1684,  and  was  buried 
in  Christ's  Church.* — <^The  petitions  preferred  against 
the  forfeited  estates  by  Donelans  in  1700,  were'  for  claims 
attaching  to  the  confiscations  of  Lord  Bophin,  Lord  Galway, 
Hugh  Kelly,  Sir  Edward  TyrreU,  and  the  Earl  of  Clan- 
ricarde.  In  1742  Peter  O'Donelan  was  the  Roman  Catholic 
Bishop  of  Clonfert;  and  in  the  obits  of  1787  that  of 
Nehemiah  Donelan  is  noticed,  as  having  occurred  in  London, 
at  the  age  of  82*  He  had  been,  says  the  conmiemoration, 
Governor   of   Carrickfergus    and   afterwards    distinguished 


—  Ill 


*  Funeral  Entry  ^  Berm*  Tar. 


300  KIKO  JAXXS'S  IBISH  ASMT  LIST. 

himself  in  two  oontiiieittd  wan.  *He  was  at  Fonteooy 
the  onlj  oflker  of  his  diyiston  who  escaped  with  his  life, 
and  though  Wounded  in  ten  parts  of  his  body,  he  gallantij 
brought  off  the  colonn  of  his  corps,  which  Were  ahnost 
shot  to  lags.^  For  ^Donekn  of  Sylane'  see  pai  at 
'  aCiHinor-Sligo/ 


JUh. 


CAPTAIK  EDMUND  AND  ENSIGN  JAMES 

LALLY. 

¥h£  oocoitence  of  these  names  in  Lord  Ghdway^s  Segiment 
of  In&ntry,  drafted  as  it  was  itom  the  County  which  gaTe 
title  to  the  Ccdonel^  establishes  beyond  a  question  that 
these  officers  Were  of  the  Tollynadaly  stock;  and  trost- 
worthy  traditions,  transnutted  through  their  singularly  long- 
lived  descendants,  maintjiin  that,  whilst  they  were  refaictant 
to  desert  their  native  country  after  the  capitulation  of 
Limerick,  they  yet  would  not  accept  service  under  the 
Song  who  succeeded;  but  passed  over  into  the  parish  of 
Cloneen  near  Mullinahone  in  Tipperaiy,  where  maternal 
relatives  of  theirs,  named  Bermingham,  Were  located,  and 
where  a  monument  still  exists  commemorating-^' Bicardus 
Bermingham  nobills,  qui  obiit  9  Jun:  An.  Dom.  1672.' 
The  brothers,  for  such  they  wette,  on  this  their  new  settie- 
ment  were  more  correctiy  called  Mullalley,  and  indeed 
Hardiman,  in  his  Qalwayj  styles  the  Sept  indifferently 
LaUy  or  Mnllally.  William  the  grandson  of  Ensign  James, 
was  styled  of  Ballycullen,  and  he  drew  up  what  he  calls 
''a  sketch,  handed  down  by  tradition  from  the  fidthful 
records  of  old  and  respectable  sages,  who  received  a  correct 


MBD  oalwat's  inpantet.  301 

account  firom  the  narrative  lips  of  their  grandsires,  some  of 
whom  witnessed  the  different  Reyolutions  of  Ireland  from 
the  usurpation  of  Cromwell  to  the  final  overthrow  of  King 

James's  adherents/' The  writer  of  this  paper,  which  is 

still  preserved,  lived  to  the  age  of  seventy-four,  dying  in 
1799.  He  married  his  second  cousin,  the  grand-daughter 
of  Captain  Edmund,  and  by  her  had  two  sons,  James  and 
Michael;  the  first  became  parish  priest  of  Loughmore  and 
Temple-ree,  and  died  in  1832  aged  seventy-five;  his  brother, 
Michael  of  Cappaghmore  and  Ballyeullen,  died  in  1849, 
leaving  several  sons  and  daughters.  The  third  son  Michael, 
the  eldest  and  second  having  become  priests,  be^same  the 
Bepresentatiye  of  this  fiunily  in  the  County  of  Tipperary. 

Sir  Bernard  Burke,  in  his  Lineage  of  the  Brownee  of 
Moyne^  states  that,  at  the  close  of  the  fifteenth  century, 
JSenry  son  of  Thomas  Browne  of  Athenry,  *  acquired  large 
tracts  of  land,  by  his  wife  Sheela,  daughter  of  Donald 
Mullally,  while  it  may  be  added  that  a  *  Brian  Madally ' 
was  a  Comet  in  Maxwell's  Dragoons. 


CAPTAIN  CORNELIUS  HORAN, 

Thb  O'Horans  were  a  clan  in  the  Coimty  of  Galway, 
where,  in  1617  Edmund  O'Horan  was  found  seised  in  fee 
of  sundry  townlands;  while  in  1678  Boger  'Horane'  had 
a  confirmatory  grant  of  a  small  allotment,  as  had  John 
Horan  of  380  acres  therein,  in  the  following  year.  This 
Captiun  does  not  appear  on  the  Boll  of  Attainders,  but 
his  Lieutenant,  Boger  Horan,  does,  and  is  there  described 
as  of  Abbey  Grormigan,  Coimty  of  Gralway. 


sn 


MEUTEXAXT  EDWARD  TUIXT. 

Hb  ^ns  ako  of  a  Gdhrmr  frmflj;  sDd  thocdk  ke  dmi 
mofL  appor  «b  the  AltiiudetB  of  l^^*^!,  tiboe  ae  tiboe 
Tladdem  TuDt  of  AtUoM,  Hmmbm  of  Galvvr,  aal 
Mitdiev  of  Chvflfe  m  tkat  Coonrr.  CIbbm  am  Ae 
of  the  ktter  voe  pRftocd  ia  1700  br  A^mi  Toltr, 
.  fiv  hs  jtntne,  M  vcn  M  OB  bdtolf  of 


IbttkM,  fiv  iiMiMliiii.  ad  «■  beUf  of 
May  aid  Agaw,  Iv  Aor  iwrtinn^      Tkea 

tlieiUI|MM  SOifi  DT    tte  COBHBaBOBEn  OT    tte 

FodcstnreB  to  Frederick  Tiom^  Eeii^  of  GsDmIIt,  nDertor 
of  tlM  Enl  of  CkncxitT. ^A  Tnlhr  ^m  MneoB  m  Ae 


Eui  of  Wcstmesdis  In&iliT, »  ^s  Lake  Tollr  m  CoIomI 
EdHuml  OBciIhr*& 


ENSIGN  WnJJAM  STNON. 


of  dns  oifiBerdneribtt  kn  asof 
Comj  of  Coifk;  wtiile  a  ftmam  attnAder  of  lS4i 
WHSni  Sk7»BAAe  of  Csnietown  in  Ae  wumt  tandjz  tke 

scms  ooRvptod  non  O  oAAAAhAft- 
Dr.  Me  DcBwitt.  m  Us  .Y^te  *r  Ik  Fimr  Mi 


LORD  GAIiWAT'S  infaktbt.  808 


(Geraghty^s  edition,  p.  199),  **  descended  from  Loroan, 
of  Munster,  grand&ther  of  Brian  Bora,  and  hence  a  branch 
of  the  Dalcassians.  They  were  in  ancient  times  powerftil 
Chiefs,  and  at  the  great  battle  of  Moimnor  in  Desmond, 
fought  in  11(^1,  it  is  stated  by  the  Four  Masters  that, 
amongst  others,  seven  chiefb  of  the  O'Shanahans  were  slain. 
Their  ancient  territory  was  called  Feadha  By  BoDgaile,  or 
^  the  Woods  of  Hy  Bongaile,'  comprising  the  country  about 
Eibhlone,  near  Cashel.  In  modern  times  they  possessed 
the  lands  of  BaihnioyQe,  between  Cashel  m^  Templemore," 


304 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRT. 


lOMD  JOHM  BELUEW'8. 


[«i 


[J«hBDowddc. 


CoGaHaaloo. 


TlmryOnStSIL 

Me  Kama. 

Bfyaa  *lUrpli3rc^' 


PAtriflkBcOev. 
W-  B— til. 

Ckvoad. 
WQliam  Pippwl 


'Liy/ 


Jote«DowddL' 


GamlL 


Twlf  Cimwkj . 


ThoBUs  lUo  CvtaQ.  Jolm 

Jobn  Lej.  Thomaa  SontlL 


JijfMfoai;  DmTid  Kamiadf . 


LORD  JOHN  BELLBW'S  IKFANTBT.         305 


COLONEL  JOHN  LORD  BELLEW. 

The  fiunilj  of  Bellew,  originally  of  Norman  descent,  came 
with  the  Conqueror  to  England,  and  into  Lreland  in  the 
ensuing  century.  Li  both  countries  it  has  been  so  dis- 
tinguished as  to  exhibit  no  less  than  dghteen  Knights  of 
the  pre-eminently  chivalrous  Order  of  the  Banner;  while 
Peers  and  distinguished  Commoners  of  the  same  lineage 
occur  most  numerous  on  the  Bolls  of  Parliament,  but  whose 
honours,  by  failure  of  issue,  or  yet  more  by  attainders,  have 
become  extinct.  Richard  Bellew  was  one  of  the  Representa- 
tives of  Dundalk  in  Perrot's  Parliament  of  1585 ;  and  Sir 
John  Bellew  of  Willystown  in  Louth  represented  that 
County  in  the  Parliament  of  1639.  He  was  afterwards  one 
of  the  members  of  the  Supreme  Council  of  Kilkenny  in 
1646;  and  as  such  was  excepted  firom  pardon  for  life  and 
estate  by  Cromwell^s  Act  of  1652.  Having  married  Mary, 
daughter  of  Robert  Dillon  of  Clonbrock  (ancestor  of  the 
Lords  Clonbrock),  he  was  himself  the  founder  of  the  lines 
that  are  now  represented  by  Lord  Bellew  and  the  Reverend 
Sir  Christopher  Bellew  respectively. 

John  Bellew  of  BeUewstown,  who  had  by  the  Act  of 
Settlement  been  restored  to  his  previously  usurped  estates, 
was  the  Colonel  above  commissioned.  On  the  accession  of 
James  the  Second,  he  was  appointed  one  of  that  Monarch's 
earliest  Councillors,  and  soon  after  created  an  Irish  Peer  by 
the  title  of  Baron  Bellew  of  Duleek,  and  was  also  constituted 
Lord  Lieutenant  and  Governor  of  the  County  of  Louth. 
In  the  command  of  this  Regiment  he  was  taken  prisoner 
VOL.  n.  X 


306  KINO  James's  ibish  asmt  list. 

at  Anghrim,  and  was  so  severely  wounded  that  he  died  in 
the  following  Januaiy,  as  commemorated  on  his  tomb,  still 
standing  in  tiie  middle  of  the  aisle  of  Doleek  church.  It 
states  that  he  was  shot  in  the  belly  at  Aughrim,  and  that, 
*'  as  soon  as  he  foimd  himself  able  to  undertake  a  journey, 
he  went  with  his  lady  to  London,  where  he  died  12th 
January,  1692.  He  was  kid  in  a  vault  at  Westminster 
till  the  April  following,  when  his  corpse  was  brought  hither.** 
His  lady,  Dame  Mary  Bellew,  €Uia8  Bermingham,  of  Dunfert, 
County  of  Kildare,  who  erected  the  monimient,  died  in  1694. 
Lord  Bellew  was  outlawed  in  1691,  and  his  estates  were 
actually  granted  to  Lords  Bomney  and  Trevor;  but,  he 
having  been  comprehended  within  the  Articles  of  Limerick, 
these  estates  were  restored  to  his  second  son,  Bichard>  who 
had  obtained  a  pardoUt  as  hereader  noted.  The  Honourable 
Walter,  the  eldest  son  of  Lord  Bellew,  succeeded  to  the 
title,  and  was  by  court  influence  permitted  to  enjoy  it, 
though  he  too  was  wounded  at  Aughrim  in  King  Jameses 
service.  He  died  without  issue  male  in  1696,  when  the 
aforesaid  Bichard  became  the  third  Lord  Bellew.  His  son 
John  was  the  fourth,  but  he  also  died  without  issue  male 
at  Lisle,  whereby  the  Bellewstown  line  became  extinct. 
The  Attaiiiders  of  1642  comprise  the  names  of  Nichoks 
Bellew  of  Balruddery,  surgeon;  and  of  Patrick  Bellew 
of  Aihboy.  The  Declaration  of  Boyal  Gratitude  from 
Charles  the  Second  as  *  for  services  beyond  the  seas,*  includes 

Lawrence  Bellew  of ,  County  of  Louth. 

Of  the  condition  of  this  Regiment  and  of  others,  de 
PuHJgnan  wrote  to  D*Avaux  from  Dungannon,  6th  April, 
1689,  ^  I  have  seen  the  Be^ments  of  Bellew,  of '  Gormeston,* 
and  of  'Louth*,  who  have  not  a  sword  and  very  few  muskets. 
The  companies  are  stronger  in  pikes  than  in  muskets,  and 


LOSD  ^OHN  BSJ^LEW'S  IN7ANTBT.  307 

of  those  veiy  few  are  in  a  state  to  fire.  In  jfine  I  cannot 
ezaggexate  what  they  want  in  this  country/  * 

Besides  the  three  Bellews,  officers  in  the  present  B^g^ent, 
there  were  twelve  others  commissioned  on  this  Army  liist ; 
in  TyrconneFs  and  Lord  Abercom's  Horse,  in  Lord  Dongan's 
and  Simon  Luttrell's  Dnigoons,  in  the  Boyal  Regiment  of 
Infantry,  as  well  as  in  that  of  Lord  Louth,  Oliver  O'Glaia, 
Sir  Michael  Creagh  and  Fitz-James.  In  Bang  James's 
Parliament  of  1689  Lord  Bellew  sat  as  one  of  the  Peers, 
while  in  the  CommcHis  Thomas  Bellew  was  one  of  the 
Bepresentatives  for  the  County  of  Louth.  On  the  3rd  of 
July  in  that  year  the  Duke  of  Berwick  wrote  to  Greneral 
Hamilton,  than  besieging  Deny,  "  I  marched  yesterday 
morning  from  Newton-Stewart,  and  joining  Sunderland  at 

*  Om^,'  I  marched  hither  (Trelick).  .  .  .  My  advance 
guard  cut  off  several  of  their  sentries,  and  pushed  a  great 
many  of  the  Bebels'  party  with  auch  vigour  as  they  beat, 
with  tiiirty  dragoons,  three  troops  of  hoise  of  theirs,  which 
were  drawn  up  at  a  distance  from  us*      Captain  Patrick 

*  Belue'  (i.e.  Bellew  of  this  Regiment)  and  Major  ^  Magdonne^* 
commanded  the  van-guard.  There  was  eight  or  nine  of  the 
enemy  killed  but  none  of  ouxs.'*t  Schonberg,  soon  after 
he  landed  in  Ulster,  garrisoned  Lord  Bellew's  Castle  near 
Dundalk.  *'  At  our  coming  to  Dundalk,"  Qn  September, 
1689),  writes  Story,  ''  we  got  about  2,000  of  Lord  BeUew's 
sheep,  which  came  in  very  good  time  to  the  army,  for  it 
had  gone  hard  wii^  us  before  for  want  of  proviMons."t 
During  this  scgoum  of  Sohonbeiig,  three  of  his  Cc^nels, 


t  MSS.  in  Trinily  C(dlege,  Dublin,  F  a,  19. 
X  Stonft  Infwtial  ffutor^y  pt.  L,  p.  19. 


308  KIKG  JAME8*8  IBISH  ARXT  LIST. 

dying  of  distemper,  were  interred  in  Lord  Bellew^e  vault  at 
Dundalk,  bat  thej  were  taken  up  on  the  Irifih  regaining 
possession  of  the  place,  and  interred  at  the  church  door* 

In  1690  Thomas  Bellew  was  one  of  the  Deputy  Lieuten- 
ants of  the  County  of  Meath,  as  was  Boger  Bellew  of  that 
of  Louth.  The  Inquiations  of  1691  indnde  Richard  Lord 
Bellew.  Thomas  Bellew  of  Grafney,  Francis  and  Walter 
of  Bellewstown  and  Matthew  of  Bogerstown  in  Meaih, 
Patrick  of  Barmeath,  Baronet,  with  his  sons  John,  Bichard,  and 
Christopher ;  James  of  Drogheda,  Walter,  son  and  heir  of  the 
Lord  Baron  of  Duleek,  and  l^chard,  his  second  son,  Boger 
of  Thomastown,  Nicholas  of  Dunleer,  and  Patrick  of  Stra- 
bane.  In  1696  Lord  Bellew  preferred  his  petition  for  pardon, 
grounded  on  allegations  and  proofs  which  were  admitted, 
(and  he  afterwards  sat  in  the  House  of  Peers  in  1707).  To 
secure  the  b^iefit  of  this  Parliamentary  pardon,  he  was 
ordered  by  the  House  to  pay  certain  fees  for  the  proviso  of 
exemption;  as  were  at  the  same  time  (August,  1697)  Charles, 
Lord  Baltimore;  Bobert  Fielding,  Earl  of  Carlingfbrd;  John 
Taaffe,  Esq. ;  Nicholas  French  of  Abart,  County  of  Ghdway ; 
Esq.;  Edward,  Baron  of  Athenry;  Lieutenant-Colonel  John 
Kelly;  John  Kelly,  Esq.,  his  son;  the  Earl  of  Tyrone; 
Viscount  Netterville;  and  Edward  Geogh^an  of  Castle- 
town Kindelan,  in  Westmeath,  Esq.  Lord  Bichard*s  sister 
was  the  wife  of  Denis  Kelly  of  Aughrim,  who  was  long  a 
state  prisoner  in  the  Tower  of  London. 

John,  the  eldest  son  of  Sir  Patrick  Bellew  of  Barmeaih, 
had  also  at  this  time  a  pardon  under  the  Great  Seal  At 
the  Court  of  Chidiester  House,  in  1700,  various  churns  were 
preferred  as  affecting  the  Meath  estates  of  Thomas  Bellew 


*  Story's  Impartial  HtOortfj  pt  L,  p.  36. 


LOBD  JOHN  BBLLBW'S  INFANTBT.  309 

of  Gki&ej  and  Dundalk:  as  on  behalf  of  Margaret  Bellew 
otherwiBe  Pippard,  his  widow,  for  her  jointure  thereoff— 
allowed:  but  the  claims  of  their  sons,  John,  Matthew, 
Christopher,    and    James,    for    estates    tail    by   successive 

remainders,  were    disnust. A  committee   of  the   Irish 

House  of  Commons  in  1715  reported  Lord  Bellew  and  his 
sbter,  pensioners  on  the  Civil  Establishment  for  £300  per 
annum. 


(LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  NICHOLAS 

FITZGERALD.) 

This  officer  does  not  appear  on  the  present  Army  List,  but 
his  appointment  is  mentioned  in  Crrahanis  Dema/na  (p.  36). 
Of  the  fiunily  name,  see  post^  **  Sjr  John  Fitzgerald's  In- 
fiuitry."  This  officer  appears  on  the  Boll  of  Adjudications 
for  the  '  16^9'  Officers,  he  being  there  styled  Lieutenant 
Nicholas. 


[MAJOR  JOHN  *  DOWDELE.*] 

Neither  is  his  name  on  the  Trinity  College  Army  List, 
but  is  in  the  British  Museum  Copy.  Of  the  fiunily,  see 
ante^  at  the  Boyal  Infimtry. 


310  KING  JAMESIB   IBI8H  ABMT  LIST. 


CAPTAIN  COLIN  HANLON. 

The  0*HanIcma  trane  Tanists  of  a  large  territory  within  ihe 
present  County  of  Armagk,  and  up  to  the  time  of  James  the 
First  enjoyed  the  honour  and  offioe  ot  Hereditary  Standard- 
bearer  of  Ulster — a  priyilege  which  Sir  "William  Bossell, 
when  Lord  Deputy,  with  due  polioy  reoognised;  as,  maiehing 
against  O'Neill  and  the  Northern  insurgents,  he  committed 
the  royal  standard,  (which  the  O'Mulloy  had  carried  through 
the  Pale,)  to  Hugh  O'Hanlon,  who  had  theretofore  submitted 
to  Eng!iwh  goyenunent.  In  1314  King  Edward  directed 
an  especial  letter  missiye  to  Neill  OHanlon,  Duct  Hiber- 
norum  de  Ertker^  for  his  aid  in  the  Scottish  war.  In  1337, 
on  the  violation  of  a  peace  existing  between  the  Crown  and 
Donald  0*Hanlon,  a  Commission  was  directed  to  inquire 
into  the  <»rcumstanees  of  sudi  disrupti<m,  and  in  1846  it 
was  provided,  that  he  and  three  others  of  the  Sept,  Ardulph, 
Mela^ilin,  and  Peter  O' '  Hanlan,'  should  be  taken  undw 
the  King's  protection,  as  were  Manus  *  O'Hanelan,'  his  sept, 
and  their  goods,  together  with  Patrick  O'Hanelan,  in  1388. 
In  three  years  after,  Nelan  and  Magnell  O'Hanlon,  having 
conformed  to  peace,  had  similar  letters  of  protection;  and, 
in  1451,  William  OHanlon,  chaplain,  paid  6s.  8d.  for  a 
charter  of  Engli^  liberty. 

In  the  reign  of  James  the  First,  encroachments  having 
beat  made,  in  the  woridng  out  of  the  Plantation  of  Ulster, 
on  the  estates  of  Patrick  O'Hanlon,  who  was  at  the  time 
a  penmoner  of  the  King,  he  petitioned  the  Privy  Council 
of  England,  who,  in  1605,  thereupon  ordered  that  he  should 
be  restored  to  his  lands  in  the  County  of  Tyrone ;  and 


LORD  JOHN  BELLSW'S  INTAKTBT.  311 

that  an  equiyalent  in  lands  Bhould  be  given  to  him,  in  lieu 
of  any  injury  he  may  have  reoeiyed  by  the  erection  of  Fort 
Norrifl  on  his  land;  and  that  the  pension  granted  to  him 
by  the  late  Queen  should  be  continued.  In  the  same  year 
Sir  Oghy  O'Hanlon  was  one  of  the  Ulster  forfmters ;  and, 
as  his  lands  adjoined  the  fort  and  castle  of  Moyry,  County 
of  Armagh,  a  certain  portion  was  allotted  towards  the  main- 
tenance of  its  garrison ;  but  a  subsequent  patent  provided 
that  it  ''might  be  lawful  for  O'Hanlon  and  his  heirs  to 
possess  it  and  the  lands  thereto  assigned,  so  long  as  it  should 
continue  without  a  ward.  In  1612  Torlogh  groome  O'Han- 
lon and  others  of  his  Sept  had  grants  of  premises  in  their 
old  County  of  Armagh,  to  hold  for  eter,  subject  to  the 
conditions  of  the  Plantation  of  Ulster,  Redmund  O'Hanlon 
bad  about  the  same  time  license  to  surrender  his  lands, 
with  the  object  of  receiving  a  re-grant  thereof  from  King 
James.  The  memorable  Act  by  which  Ulster  was  declared 
confiscated,  and  its  leading  chiefs  were  attainted,  included 
''  Oghy  oge  O'Hanlon,  eldest  son  of  the  said  Sir  Oghy 
O'Hanlon,  Knight,  late  of  Tovergy ,  County  of  Armagh." 

In  1620  died  Bory,  son  of  Ferdoragh  O'Hanlon,  seised 
of  Corlost,  <&c,,  in  Armagh;  Patrick  oge^  his  son  and  heir, 
being  then  of  full  age  axid  married. 

The  Attainders  of  1642  piesent  but  the  name  of  Fyrmyn 
'  O'Hanlyn'  of  Castlemore,  County  of  Cork.  Those  of  1691 
comprise  Shane  bane  O'Hanlon,  Oghy  O'Hanlon,  Phelim 
Mc  Edmund  Teigue  O'Hanlon,  Bryan  Mac  Oghy  O'Hanlon, 
all  of  Tyrone's-ditch,  County  of  Armagh,  Phelimy  Mc 
Patrick  oge  O'Hanlon  of  Clara,  Redmond  of  Phecos,  and 
Soger  of  Tonragee,  all  in  said  County;  with  John  Hanlon, 
clerk,  and  Patrick  Hanlon,  both  of  Carlingford,  County  of 
Louth. 


312  KiKO  James's  ibish  abmt  ubt. 


CAPTAIN CLINTON. 

Of  this  name  was  attainted  in  1643  Thomas  Clinton^  de- 
scribed as  of  Fieldstown,  Coimty  Dublin;  the  ontlawiies  of 
1691  present  Nicholas  Clinton  of  Moynalty  in  Meath;  and 
Thomas  of  Clintonstown  in  Loath,  who  forfeited  largely  and 
was  most  probably  the  above  oflSoer.  His  estates  in  Clin- 
tonstown and  Dmmcashell  were  sold  by  the  Trustees  of  the 
Forfeited  F^itates  to  John  Asgill  of  Dublin ;  his  manor  and 
lands  of  Port  to  Sir  William  Bobinaon;  his  estate  at  6or- 
manstown  to  Thomas  Bellingham,  and  a  chief  rent  out  of 
the  lands  of  Moyne  (all  bdng  in  the  Connty  of  Louth),  to 
Jeremiah  Smith.  This  fimuly  came  originally  into  Ulster 
in  the  train  of  John  de  Courcy,  and  settled  in  Louth;  of 
which  county  Hugh  de  Clinton  was  sheriff  in  1301,  and 
various  inquisitions,  past  mortem^  preserved  in  the  BoUs* 
Office,  disclose  their  several  estates  therein. 


CAPTAIN  M*KENNA. 

No5E  of  this  surname  appears  on  the  Boll  of  Attainders 
either  in  1642  or  1691.  The  M'Kemias  were  a  sept  of 
Lower  Truagh  in  Monaghan,  where  thdlr  achievements  are 
celebrated  in  many  of  the  native  Annals.  In  1557  William 
'  Mackeney'  had  a  Boyal  letter  of  protection,  &c.,  as  one  of 
the  train  of  Prince  Edward,  then  announced  as  about  to 
depart  beyond  sea ;  and  where,  in  the  September  following, 
that  Prince  won  the  memorable  battle  of  Poictiers.     The 


LORD  JOHN   BELLBW'S  INFANTRY.  313 

Act  of  1569,  for  the  attainder  of  O'Neill  and  confuscation 
of  Ulster,  expressly  named  amongst  the  confiscations,  *  the 
country  oiP  the  Troo,  called  Mac  Kynau's/  *  The  Tmagh,' 
writes  Sir  John  Davis,  the  Irish  Attorney  General,  in  1606, 
to  Robert  Earl  of  Salisbury,  *  contains  fifteen  baUybetaghs 
of  land,  (each  ballybetagh  containing  about  960  acres,)  and 
of  these.  Sir  John  says,  Patrick  Mac  Kenna  has  yet  three 
ballybetaghs  at  a  stated  rent,  and  he  relies  that  the  pro- 
prietor was  thus  fairly  provided  for.  In  1611  Sir  Edward 
Blaney,  Seneschal  of  Monaghan,  passed  patent  for  various 
lands  in  that  county,  in  trust  and  to  be  allotted  amongst 
forty-eight  of  the  old  proprietors.  In  Cromwell's  denouncing 
ordinance  *for  the  settlement  of  Ireland,'  Neill  M^Kenna 
of  the  Truagh,  in  Monaghan,  was  one  of  the  many  chiefs 
excepted  from  pardon  for  life  and  estate.  Another  of  this 
Christian  name,  it  appears  from  an  inquiation  past  mortenij 
died  in  1629,  leaving  James,  his  son  and  heir,  then  aged 
only  seven,  posdbly  the  above  Captain.  In  O'BeiUy'a  Irish 
Writers  it  is  said  that  about  the  year  1700  lived  a  Neill 
Mc  Kenna,  a  poet  and  musician,  who,  he  relies,  was  the 
author  of  the  songs  '  Celia  Conellan'  and  of  '  Old  Trugha,* 
which  latter  composition  seems  to  indicate  his  Monaghan 
descent. 


CAPTAIN  WILLIAM  PIPPARD. 

This  ancient  Anglo-Norman  family,  which  early  settled  in 
Devonshire,  appears  to  have  sent  its  representatives  to  the 
invasion  of  Ireland;  and  the  first  Castle  of  Trim  is,  by  some, 
said  to  have  been  erected  by   WilHam  Pippard,  about  the 


314  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ABMT  LIST. 

year  1220.*  This  William  also  founded  a  Castle  and  a  Priory 
at  Ardee.  His  son,  Roger,  was  one  of  the  Fideles  of  Ireland 
who  was  ordered  to  be  fidthfol  and  obedient  to  the  Lord 
Deputy.  His  son,  Balph,  founded  a  Carmelite  Friary,  in 
Ardee,  which  was  soon  after  burnt  by  the  Scots  and  Irish 
under  Edward  Bruce.  In  1295  John  de  Pipard,  one  of  the 
Irish  Fideles,  was  invited  to  London  to  receive  and  eflfectuate 
the  Ejng's  Cqinmands,  concerning  military  service  to  be 
performed  beyond  tiie  seas.  The  aforesaid  Balph  Pipard,  in 
1302,  enfeoffed  King  Edward  and  his  heirs  of  all  his  (Ralph's) 
castles,  towns,  and  manors  in  Ireland. 

In  James  the  Second's  Charter  of  1689  to  Drogheda, 
Ignatius  Pippard  was  Mayor,  two  of  the  name  were  Alder- 
men, and  tibjree  others,  including  ijxis  William,  were  Bur- 
gesses, all  of  whom  were  consequently  attunted. 


LIEUTENANT  THADY  CROWLEY  AND 
ENSIGN  DANIEL  CROWLEY. 

The  O'Crowleys  were  a  Sept  of  Cork,  who,  in  Smith's 
History  of  that  County,  are  said  to  have  branched  from  the 
Mc  Dermots  of  Moylurg.  In  the  Munster  war  of  Elizabeth's 
time,  the  Crowleys,  then  styled  of  Carberry,  sought  and 
obtained  the  protection  of  the  Lord  President,  and  continued 
loyal  until  the  landing  of  the  Spaniards-f  The  Attainders  of 
1641  include  twenty-six  members  of  the  family,  all  of  this 
County.  In  1662  John  Read,  a  member  of  the  Irish  Par- 
liament, complained  to  that  House  of  a  forcible  entry  and 
distress  made  upon  his  lands  of  Castro- Venter,  &c.,  by  Shane 

•  Dean  BuOer's  Notices  of  Trim,  f  Pwsata  Hibemia^  p.  1S8. 


LOBD  JOHN  BELLBW'S  INFAITTKT.  315 

oge  O'Crowley,  and  he  prajed  an  order  on  the  Sheriff  of  Cork 
to  restore  and  quiet  his  possession  therdn« 

The  Outlawries  of  1691  comprise  the  above  Lieutenant 
Thady  Crowley,  described  as  of  Temple-brien,  County  of 
Cork;  Humphrey  Crowley  of  Boss,  John  of  Aghafore,  Kosse 
of  Leap,  all  in  Cork ;  James  '  Croly  *  of  Armagh,  Thady  of 
Dundalk,  and  Patrick  of  Newry.  The  seyeial  branches  of 
the  &mily  had,  previous  to  this  period,  concurred  in  resigning 
the  denounced  ^  O*,  although  it  was  then  their  only  conceded 
inheritance.  One  of  them  was  an  Ensign  in  Colonel  Cormuck 
O'Neill's  Lifiuitry. 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  HALFPENNY. 

This  name  does  not  appear  on  the  Attainders  of  1691,  while 
on  those  of  1641  are  Cornelius  Halfpenny  of  Angestown,  and 
Terence  Halfpenny  of  Boestown,  County  of  Meath,  with 
John  Halfpenny  oge  of  Lusk.  It  is  not  improbable  that  ikis 
John  Halfpenny,  then  young  {oge)y  may,  with  hereditary 
fidelity  to  the  Stuart,  have  been  the  above  Lieutenant. 


ENSIGN  BBANAGAN. 

The  OBrannigans  were  an  ancient  Sept  of  Louth.  Bobert 
'Brennegan'  is  of  record,  a  landed  proprietor  at  Ardee,  in 
1619,  and  of  his  stock  this  Ensign  may  be  presiuned,  com- 
missioned as  he  was  in  Lord  Bellew's  Infimtry. The  name 

was  introduced  in  tne  fifteenth  century  in  Galway,  of  which 
town  Sir  Henry  Branegan  was  Warden  in  1497 ;  it  was  there 
however  changed  into  '  OBrangan.' 


316 


KINO  JAMES  8  IRISH  ASMT  LIST. 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 


SIB  VALENTINE  BROWNE,  NOW  LORD  KENMABE. 


Co^ptotM. 


iMnslmmiU. 


nerce. 

Colonel. 

Sir  Patrick  Tnnt, 

M^GiUicndd: 

Ueat-GoL 

Major. 

Arcfadeacon. 

Plnnkett 

William  Beeires. 

Thomas  Carter. 

Roche. 

—  Mac  AnliffB. 

Daniel  O*0onoiva&. 
MacMahon. 

Woll 

Banet 

Banet 

Moore. 

Gonlde. 

^—  0*Connor. 

Mac  Donell. 

Christopher  Fagan. 

Garrett  Neagle. 

Le  Chevalier  Hnrif, 

EnmgfU, 
John  Powei: 


M^GilHcaddj. 

Callahan. 

Gonlde. 


Mahony. 
.Mac  Anliffe. 

Dooly. 
Barret. 
Nagle. 
Mac  Donell. 


Grenad. 


LORD  KSNHABE'S  INFANTRY.  317 


COLONEL  LORD  KENMARE. 

Tece  name  of  Le  Bmn  (Browne)  stands  eleventh  on  the  Boll 
of  Battle  Abbey,  and  having  been  introduced  into  Lreland  on 
Strongbow*8  Livaedon,  appears  in  earlj  records  and  annals  of 
this  country.  In  1230  and  1259  Fromund  Le  Brun  was 
Chancellor.  In  1302  Nigel  Le  Brun  was  one  of  the  Irish 
Magnates  summoned  to  proceed  under  Richard  De  Burgo  to 
the  Scottish  War;  he  was  afterwards  constituted  Escheator 
of  Ireland,  and  in  1309  was  summoned  to  a  Parliament  in 
Kilkenny.  In  1288  and  1290  Reginald  Browne  was  Sheriff 
of  Kerry ^  afterwards  knighted.  In  1335  Richard  Browne 
was  one  of  the  Justices  of  the  Ejng's  Bench;  and  in  1345 
Gilbert  Brown  appears  as  Guardian  of  the  Peace  in  the 
County  of  Kerry ^  with  power  to  array  and  assess  the  popula- 
tion for  military  service.  Thomas  '  Brown'  of  Boly,  was  one 
of  the  influential  proprietors  of  the  County  Carlow,  who,  in 
1355,  elected  its  Sheriff;  while  in  the  same  year,  Nicholas 
'  Broun'  was  chosen  Sheriff  of  Wexford,  and  was  constituted 
by  the  Crown  Escheator  of  his  County.  Robert  Broun  was 
Constable  of  the  Castle  of  Carlow  in  1374 ;  and  Laurence 
*  Bron'  was  one  of  the  Representatives  of  the  Borough  of 
Wexford,  in  King  Edward's  Parliament,  held  at  Westminster 
in  1376.  In  ten  years  after  Patrick  Broun  was  appointed 
one  of  the  Guardians  of  the  Peace  for  that  County.  In  1409 
Nicholas  Broun  was  Treasurer  of  the  Cathedral  of  Ferns,  and 
an  influential  landed  proprietor  thereabout.  In  the  following 
year  Reginald  Broun  held  the  Chief  Serjeantcy  of  the  Crosses 
of  Wexford.     In  the  first  year  of  the  reign  of  Henry  the 


818  KINO  JAMSS'8  IBZ8H  ABMT  LIST. 

Sixth,  Nicholas  Browne  of  Miilrankin  (possibly  the  aforesaid 
Nicholas),  was  Joint  Escheator  of  said  County  of  Wexford, 
then  Sheriff,  and  in  two  years  after  constituted  Seneschal  of 
its  Liberty.  In  1467,  John  Broun  of  Trim,  was  appointed 
Constable  of  the  Castle  in  that  important  town  of  the  Pale. 

In  1555  Sir  Valfintine  Browne  of  Crofts  in  lincolnshire 
was  Auditor-General  of  Ireland,  and,  dying  in  1567,  left  Sir 
Valentine  his  son  and  h^,  who  in  1583  received  instructiona, 
jointly  with  Sir  Henry  Wallop,  from  the  Queen,  relative  to 
the  escheated  lands  of  Munster,  on  the  Plantation  of  which 
Province  he  wrote  a '  Discourse.*  He  was  subsequently  sworn 
of  the  Privy  Coundl  in  Ireland,  and  represented  the  Counly 
of  Sligo,  in  the  Parliament  of  1585. 

In  1688  he  repaired  to  Ireland  with  his  aon  Nicholas,  and 
proposmg  to  sojourn  there,  he  in  the  same  year  obtained  from 
Donald,  Earl  of  Clancarre,  a  grant  of  various  castles,  towns, 
lands,  &c.,  in  the  County  of  Desmond ;  of  which,  in  1612,  he 
had  a  confirmation  from  the  Crown,as  the  territory  of  Cosmaage, 
in  Desmond;  the  manor,  castle,  and  town  of  MoUahiffib,  the 
castle  of  Molan,  the  country  of  Onagh  O^Donogho-MorCi  in 
Desmond;  the  manor  and  dte  of  the  CasUe  called  Bosse- 
O'Donoho,  the  church  and  town  of  Killamie,  with  the  lough 
of  Lough-lean,  and  the  islands  of  InnipfaHen  and  Muckmsh, 
with  several  other  islands  therein;  all  late  in  tibe  tenure  of 
Bory  O'Donogho  More  (which  country  of  Onagh  contains 
fifty  quarters  of  land,  at  the  rate  of  forty  acres  to  the  quarter), 
with  fishing,  fair,  markets,  courts,  <&c.  Sir  Valentine  had 
issue,  besides  the  aforesaid  Sir  Nicholas,  Sir  Thomas  Browne 
of  Hos^tal,  County  of  Limerick,  his  eldest  son.  The  former, 
described  as  of  Molahifie  and  Bosse,  County  of  Kerry, 
married  JuUa,  daughter  of  O^SuUivan  Beare,  and  died  in 
1616.    His  eldest  son.  Sir  Valentine,  (whose  wardship  had 


LOSD  KSKMAB£*S  INFAKTBT.  319 

been  committed  to  Sir  Greoffiy  Fentou  in  1607)*  preferred  a 
Petition  to  King  James  th/e  First,  for  an  abatement  of  some 
of  the  yearly  rent  reserred  on  that  part  of  his  estate,  which  he 
held  from  the  Crown  as  an  Undertaker,  at  £113  6s.  8d.,  '^  in 
regard  of  the  small  profit  he  made  of  it,  being  set  out  in  the 
most  barren  and  remote  part  of  the  County  of  Kerry,  and 
having  so  hard  a  rate  imposed  upon  it,  that  unless  he  was 
relieved  by  his  Migesty's  &vour,  he  should  not  be  able  to 
inhabit  there,  and  perform  the  articles  of  Plantation  to  which 
he  was  bound."  This  rent  was  accordingly  in  1612  abated  to 
£53  18b.  6d.,  and  the  tenure  was  afterwards  converted  into  a 
fee.  Sir  Valentine  was  in  1621  further  created  a  Baronet. 
He  married,  to  his  first  wife,  a  daughter  of  that  Earl  of 
Desmond  who  was  beheaded  in  1583:  his  grandson  by  her 
was  another  Sir  Valentine,  the  above  officer,  and  third 
Baronet. 

It  may  be  here  mentioned  that  in  1607  Walter  Browne 
(of  a  fiunily  long  established  at  Camus)  and  Edward  Browne 
of  Ejdkellan  in  Limerick  had  a  grant  of  the  castle,  manor, 
and  lands  of  Kilkellan,  with  those  of  Camus,  license  being 
given  by  the  gcant,  to  transport  the  produce  of  the  premises, 
by  way  of  merchandise,  or  otherwise,  duty  fireC)  fix>m  any 
port  of  Ireland  to  any  port  of  England  or  Wales.  In 
1587  Walter  Browne,  son  and  hdr  of  Gerald  Browne 
then  late  of  Kilpatrick  County  Westmeath,  conveyed  certain 
premises  therdbi  and  in  other  counties  to  trustees,  to  fiunily 
uses,  and  he  died  aeised  thereof  in  1611;  leaving  William 
his  heir,  then  aged  tiiirty  and  married.  In  1617  Patrick 
Browne  had  a  grant  in  the  Murrowe  territory.  County 
Wexford,  of  various    lands  then    created  the   Barony  of 

^  RoLPaLin  Cane  Hib. 


320  KING  James's  irish  asmt  list. 

Browneswoody  with  courts  leet  snd  baron,  firee  wuren  and 
park,  &c.  He  was  the  son  and  heir  of  William  Browne  of 
Miilrankin  in  said  oonnty,  and  was  then  aged  thirty-seren 
and  married;  he  died  in  1637,  seised  of  said  premises,  and 
leaving  William  his  son  and  hdr,  then  aged  thirty.  In 
1629  James  Browne  died  seised  of  BaUinasraghdufie,  &c., 
in  same  county,  Meyler  his  son  being  then  of  foil  age 
and  married;  and  in  1633  Walter  Browne  of  Grag-Bobbin, 
also  in  Wexford,  ^ed,  leaving  John  his  son  and  heir  then 
of  fnll  age  and  married. 

Those  of  this  name  attainted  in  1642  were  Nidbolas 
Browne,  described  as  'of  Leixlip,'  and  Richard  Browne 
of  Athboy,  merdiant.  Of  the  Confederate  Catholics  as- 
sembled at  Kilkenny,  were  Edward  and  Geoffiy  Browne 
of  Galway,  and  Sylvester  Browne  of  Dublin.  This  Greoffiy 
Browne  was,  by  the  denundation  of  Cromwell's  Ordinance 
of  1652,  excepted  from  pardon  for  life  and  estate;  as  was 
also  John  Browne  of  the  Neale,  County  of  Mayo.  (See 
of  these  Brownes,  postj  at  Colonel  Dominick  Browne's 
Infantry).  The  Boyal  declaration  of  thanks  of  1662  includes 
Sir  Valentine  Browne,  Knight,  Thomas  Browne  of  the 
Baromes  of  Bear  and  Bantry,  and  Colonel  William  Browne 
of  Mulrankin,  County  of  Wexford.  In  1666  Tobias  Browne 
had  a  grant  of  367  acres  in  Cork;  as  had  Sir  Bichard 
Browne  of  813  in  Meath.  In  the  following  year,  Bachd 
and  Anne  Browne,  the  daughters  of  Timothy  Browne  of 
Bohonagh  in  Cork,  passed  patent  for  1,000  acres  in  that 
county,  as  did  John  Browne  for  213  in  Antrim;  while 
the  Boll  of  Adjudications  decreed  aflber  the  Bestoration,  in 
fikvour  of  the  '  1649  *  Officers,  present  the  names  of  Lieu- 
tenants Charles,  Hugh,  John,  Bichard,  and  Samuel,  and 
Captain  Thomas  Browne. 


LORD   K£NMAB£*S   INFANTRY.  321 

The  above-mentioned  Baronet,  Colonel  Sur  Valentine 
Browne  was  of  King  James's  Priyy  Council,  and  by  patent 
of  20th  May,  1689,  was  created  Baron  of  Castleross  and 
Viscoimt  Kemnare ;  by  which  title  he  took  his  seat  at 
the  Parliament  of  Dublin  in  that  year,  while  John  Browne 
of  Ardagh  was  one  of  the  Representatives  for  the  Borough 
of  Tralee.  Besides  this  Colonel  (who  was  taken  prisoner  at 
Aughrim*)  other  Brownes  commanded  In&ntry  Regiments 
in  this  campaign  and  service,  as  Colonel  Nicholas  Browne, 
the  son  of  Lord  Kenmare,  in  whose  Regiment  it  will  be 
seen  John  Browne  was  a  Lieutenant.  Colonel  Dominick 
Browne  had,  under  him,  Andrew  Browne  a  Captain,  and 
another  Andrew  a  Lieutenant;  while  Brownes  were  com- 
missioned in  nine  other  Regiments,  viz. : — Clare's  Dragoons, 
and  the  In&ntry  Regiments  of  Mountcashel,  Kilmallock, 
Boffin,  Sir  Maurice  Eustace,  Edward  Butler,  John  Grace, 
Sir  Michael  Creagh,  and  Charles  Cavenagh.  The  Attainders 
of  1691  record  the  names  of  twenty-six  Brownes,  including 
Patrick  of  Mulrankin,  County  of  Wexford.  The  other 
outlaws  were  of  Westmeath,  Dublin,  Mayo,  Keny,  Carlow, 
Kilkenny,  Waterford,  Longford,  and  Gralway  Counties, 
respectively. 

Sir  Valentine  had  married  Jane,  only  daughter  and  heiress 
of  Sir  Nicholas  Plnnkett  of  Balrath,  County  of  Meath,  by 
whom  he  had  five  sons  and  four  daughters;  (his  eldest  son 
being  Colonel  Nicholas,  hereafter  mentioned,  the  lineal 
ancestor  of  the  present  Earl).  Sir  Valentine  died  in  1694, 
having  by  his  will  of  1690  directed  his  burial  *'in  the 
monument  himself  had  built  some  years  past  in  the  Church 
of  Killeen ;  or,  if  he  died  in  the  County  of  Kerry  or  near 

*  SUmfs  Impartial  Hittory,  pt.  XL,  p.  ISa 
VOL.   II.  T 


322  KING  JAMES*S  HUSH  ABMT  LIST. 

it,  then  with  his  own  dear  and  affectionate  wife  Jane,  Lady 
Kenmare,  in  the  pariah  church  of  Killamej,  with  his  parents 
and  other  refattions.''*  On  his  death  Colonel  Nicholas,  as 
ddest  son,  socceeded  to  the  title.  The  Journals  of  the  Irish 
House  of  Commons  record  that,  in  1703,  Anthony  Ham- 
mond, as  guardian  of  Valentine,  ibe  eldest  son  of  this 
Nicholas  Browne,  Lord  Kenmare,  and  also  of  the  other 
children  of  said  Nicholas,  presented  a  petition  against  John 
As^ll  and  Murtough  Griffin,  who  had  been  employed  as 
council  and  agodt  reqpectively  to  purchase  the  estates  of 
sud  Nicholas  for  them,  firom  the  Trustees  ot  the  Forfeituresi 
but  who,  as  alleged,  in  breach  of  said  truM;,  refused  to 
convey  same  accordingly,  and  tiie  petition  prayed  relief;  his 
ckim  was  however  rejected. 

'Browne's'  was  tl)e  style  of  a  Free  Company  in  the 
Brigades,  and  the  name  has  heesi  ngnally  distinguished  in 
the  military  annaU  of  the  Continent,  in  Austria,  Italyi 
Hungary,  Transylvania,  Busma,  and  Styria.  Ulysses  Mazit 
milian,  Count  Brown,  was  a  memorable  individual  in  the 
Austrian  service.  He  was  bom  in  1705^  educated  at  the 
Diocesan  school  of  his  native  City,  Limericki  and,  when 
ten  years  old,  was  invited  to  Hungary  by  his  uncle,  Count 
Browne,  who  commanded  an  In&ntry  Begiment  there* 
He  was  present  at  the  siege  of  Belgrade  in  1717,  was  a 
Colonel  in  1725,  and  in  1730,  with  his  uncle,  invested 
Corsica.  In  1739  the  Emperor  Charles  Vl.  for  his  services 
raised  him  to  the  dignity  of  a  Field-Mardial  and  Member 
of  the  Aulic  Council  of  War.  On  the  Coronation  of  the 
Empress  Queen  of  Bohemia  in  1743,  she  appointed  Brown 
one  of  her  Privy  Councillors,  and  in  1752  nominated  him 

*  ArchdaWs  Lodgers  Peerage^  voL  7^  p.  54,  &<%,  n* 


LORD  kbnhabe's  infantbt.  323 

geaeraliflsimo  of  all  her  forces;  while  the  King  of  Poland, 
Elector  of  Saxony,  in  the  following  jear  invested  him  with 
the  order  of  the  White  Eagle.  At  the  memoirable  battle 
of  Prague  in  1757,  this  hero  received  a  wound  of  which  he 
expired  in  two  months.  He  had  married  in  1726  a  Countess^ 
of  illustrious  lineage  in  Bohemia,  by  whom  he  had  issue 
two  sons.    His  Life  was  published  in  two  volumes  at  Prague 

in  the  year  of  his  death. George  General  Count  Browne, 

Governor-general  of  Livonia,  signalized  himself  by  uncommon 
bravery  at  the  battle  of  Zemdorf.  He  married  the  daughter 
of  Field-Marshal  Lacy,  by  whom  he  had  issue  General  and 
Colonel  Browne,  now  (writes  Femur,*  in  1787)  in  the  £m* 
peror's  service. 


LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  sir  PATtlICK 

TRANT. 

This  family,  of  Danish  extraction,  is  on  Ortelius's  Map^ 
located  in  the  Barony  of  Corkaguinny,  County  of  Kerry. 
Li  1605  Richard  Rice,  of  Dingle-i-couch,  had  a  grant  of  the 
wardship  of  Maurice,  son  of  James  '  Traunt^'  late  of  same 
place,  with  an  allowance  for  his  maintenance  in  Trinity 
College.  The  name  does  not  appear  on  the  attainders  of 
1641,  but,  on  the  Roll  of  abjudications  for  the  '1649'  Officers, 

is  Quartermaster  Garrett  Trant. In  the  Parliament  gf  1689 

this  Sir  Patrick,  who  was  one  of  the  Commissioners  of  the 
Revenue,  represented  the  Queen's  Coimty.  Jn  Major- 
General  Boisseleau*s  Li£stntry  Henry  and  David  Trant  were 


*  Hutory  oflAmerkky  p.  349. 


324  KING  JAMESS   I&I8H   ABMY   LIST. 

Ci^tains,  and  John  Tnmt  an  Ensign;  while  Edmund  was 
a  Lieutenant  in  Lord  ShneV  The  attainders  of  1691 
include  Sir  Patoick,  described  as  Baronet,  of  ColdweU,  County 
of  Dublin,  his  lady,  then  lady  Helen  Trant,  widow,  with 
their  sons  Richard,  Laurence,  and  Charles  Trant;  Maurice 
Trant  of  Dublin,  Ghurrett  of  Portarlington,  Queen's  County, 
and  Gerald  Trant  of  Dingle.  By  the  confiscations  of  Sir 
Patrick  his  very  extensive  estates  vested  in  the  Crown, 
including  lands  in  the  Counties  of  Kerry,  Ejldare,  Dublin, 
King's  and  Queen's  Counties;  and  within  these  the  Manors, 
and  Lordships  of  Portarlington,  Lea,  and  Charleston,  all 
which  were  purchased  by  the  Hollow  Swords'  Blades  Com- 
pany, from  the  Trustees  of  the  Forfdtures  for  £30,000. 
The  lands,  which  constituted  the  Manor  of  Portarlington,  had 
been  on  the  *  1641'  confiscations,  forfeited  by  Louis  O'Dempsey, 
Viscount  Clanmaliere,  and  were  granted  thereupon  to  Lord 
Arlington,  who  gave  this  name  to  the  territory.  In  1668 
he  sold  the  estate  to  Sir  Patrick  Trant,  by  whose  attainder 
it  again  vested  in  the  Crown,  when  King  William  in  1696 
granted  it  to  his  favourite,  the  Marquis  de  Bouvigny,  after- 
wards Earl  of  Gralway,  who  at  once  invited  several  French 
and  Dutch  refugees  to  settle  there;  by  which  introduction 
came  into  this  country  the  several  fiunilies  of  Brocas, 
Chenevix,  Saurin,  Beaufort,  Pellessier,  Mercier,  Sandes, 
Dubourdieu,  Grueber,  Des  Vaux,  Maturin,  Chaigneau, 
Lefiinu,  Fleury,  Litton,  Vignoles,  LaTouche,  Dolier, 
Boileau,  Battier,  Perrin,  Lenauze,  Boursiquot,  Elrck,  Lunelle, 
Maaere,  &c.  Sir  Patrick  himself  followed  King  James  to 
France,  where  he  died  soon  after';  on  the  petition  of  his 
widow,  however,  she  and  her  family  were  allowed  to  retain 
a  small  portion  of  the  Kerry  estate.  The  only  claimant  upon 
Sir  Patrick's  confiscations  at  Chichester  House  in  1700  was 


LORD  KENMABE'S   INFANTRY.  325 

John,  son  of  Kicbard  Trant,  a  grandson,  it  would  seem,  of  the 
Baronet.  He  sought  a  charge  affecting  the  whole  estates, 
but  his  petition  was  dismist  for  non-prosecution. 


CAPTAIN  WILLIAM  REEVES. 

No  particulars  of  this  family,  applicable  to  the  period,  have 
been  ascertained.  Lieutenant-Colonel  Richard  Reeves  is 
mentioned  on  the  Roll  of  Adjudications  for  the  '1649* 
Officers. 


CAPTAIN  DANIEL  O'DONOVAN. 

Full    notices  of  this  family  are  given   post,  at   Colonel 

Daniel   0*Donovan.     Here  it  may  be  mentioned,  that  the 

commission  of  this  Captain  Daniel  bears  date  firom  Dublin 
Castle,  1st  January,  1688. 


CAPTAIN  O'CONNOR-KERRY. 

The  invasion  of  Ireland  by  the  sons  of  Milesius  from  Spain, 
of  which  the  old  native  annalists  give  so  many  details,  must 
needs  be  recommended  to  belief  by  the  fact,  that  their  having 
sought  and  obtained  the  sanction  and  guidance  of  a  British 
Prince  on  that  expedition,  and  a  permissive  grant  of  Ireland 
affected  to  be  made  by  him  for  their  occupation,  was  gravely 


3t6  KHro  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARHT  LIST. 

relied  upon  in  an  Act  of  Parliament  (11th  of  Elizabeth, 
session  3),  as  one  of  the  evidences  of  her  Majesty's  title  to 
this  island.  The  sons  leeorded  to  have  00  passed  oyer  the 
sea  were  Heber,  Ir,  and  Heremon.  The  first  and  last  are 
those  most  projected  on  the  ancient  annals,  while  Ir,  the 
second  son,  was  the  progenitor  of  many  noble  families  in  this 
country,  and  amongst  those  of  liie  O'Connors-Kerry.  The 
descending  line  from  him  meets  its  first  illustrious  link  in 
Ollamh  Fodhla,  who  reigned  monarch  of  Ireland  for  thirty 
years,  and  was  one  of  the  most  accomplished  priBoes  of  his 
time.  He  it  was  who  oidflined  the  assembly  of  the  F^  or 
Parliament  of  Tara,  who  thence  promulgated  a  code  t)( 
wholesome  and  fitting  laws ;  and,  like  a  just  and  patriotic  ruler, 
he  caused  several  royal  prerogatives  to  be  abolished  for  the 
benefit  of  the  State.  Remote  posterity  has  so  far  recognised 
his  merits,  as  to  establish  his  bust  in  the  series  of  legislators 
that  adorns  the  dome  of  the  Irish  Court  of  Justice,  placing 
!tf  with  chrohologioal  accuracy,  between  those  of  Moses  and 
Alfml. 

Thus  fiir,  and  for  several  subsequent  generations  the  trunk 
of  this  O'Connor  pedigree  is  common  to  many  Irish  Septs, 
as  is  from  him  down  to  Fergus,  son  of  Rossa  Roe,  who  had 
been  King  of  Ulster,  until,  by  the  arts  and  power  of  Connor 
Mac  Nessa,  he  was  banished  firom  that  territory,  and  obliged, 
with  his  three  sons,  Ciar,  Cork,  and  Conmac,  to  seek  refuge 
in  Connaught.  There  he  was  hospitably  received  by  its 
Queen,  Maabh,  in  whose  service  the  exiles  fought  the 
memorable  Cualgnian  seven  years'  war,  against  Mac  Nessa 
and  the  red-btunch  Knights;  a  war,  the  achievements  of 
which  are  vaunted  in  sundry  Irish  poems  and  annals,  and 
in  truth  frimished  the  chief  materials  for  Macpherson's 
splendid  imposition,   entitled    OBsiarCs    Poema.     After  the 


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LOKD  KENMAlt£'S  INFANTRY.  327 

termination   of  that  war,   Ciar,   the  eldest  son  of  Fergus, 
pursued  his  course  southward,  until  he  arrived  at  and  took 
possession  of  a  territory  to  which  he  gave  his  tiame,  Cianigia- 
Luachra,  i.e.,  Kerry  of  Luachra,  the  latter  part  of  the  epithet 
being  attached  to  it  as  the  mountain  of  Slieve  Luachra  was 
its   southern   boundary.      The    Kingdom   of  Munster,  for 
Ireland,  like  Palestine  and  other  countries  of  remote  times 
was  apportioned  into  territories,  each  of  which,  under  its  own 
chief,  was  styled  a  kingdom,  and  its  own  affitirs  were  managed 
independently,  paying  tribute  to,  but  without  the  interference 
of,  the  Ard-righ  or  supreme  monarch.     This  kingdom  had 
been  by  the  will  of  OilioU  Olum,  divided  between  his  two 
sons,    Eogan    Mor,  progenitor    of   the   Mac   Carthys,   and 
Cormac  Cas  of  the  O'Briens ;  the  portion  of  the  former  being 
called  Desmond  or  South  Munster,  that  of  the  latter  Thomond, 
or   North    Munster.      Ormond   or   East    Munster    obeyed 
CCarroll,    while    lar-mond,    or   West    Munster,    was    the 
principality  of  O'Connor   Kerry,   and  the  rulers  of  these 
divisions  were   severally   styled   kings.      About    the    com- 
mencement of  the  twelfth  century,  Mahon  O'Connor,  having 
acquired  some  rights  over  Corkaguinny,   is  called  in  the 
annab  King^of  Kerry  and  Corkaguinny,  as  also  presumptive 
heir  to  the  throne  of  Cashel.     His  son,  Dermod  O'Connor 
built  the  Castle  of  Asdee  in  1146. 

In  this  divided  condition  the  O'Briens  and  Mac  Carthys 
Were  frequently  involved  in  war  with  each  othet*,  and  in  1138 
O'Brien,  aided  by  the  O'Connors,  attacked  and  slew  Cormac 
Mac  Carthy,  whose  son,  after  a  lapse  of  some  3rear8,  bent 
upon  avenging  his  father's  &te,  submitted  himself  to  Henry 
the  Second,  and  prevailed  upon  that  not  reluctant  monarch 
to  invade  O'Connor's  district.  A  pretext  was  readily  afforded 
for  this  onslaught,   and  Raymond  le  Gros,  encamping  at 


828  KING  James's  ibish  army  list. 

Lixnaw,  commenoed  that  absorption  of  lands  in  the  heart  of 
lar-mond  which  stripped  the  O'Connors  of  the  fairest  portion 
of  their  inheritance ;  while  a  second  Norman,  Thomas  Fitz- 
Gerald,  son  of  Lord  Offidey,  having  married  a  daughter  of 
the  O^Moriarty,  another  ancient  family  of  Kerry  (deriving 
from  a  common  ancestor  with  the  McCarthys),  claimed  a 
portion  of  lar-mond  in  right  of  her;  firom  him  grew  the 
palatinate  of  Desmond.  The  old  Sept  was  thus,  after  several 
sanguinary  engagements,  compelled  to  narrow  itself  within 
the  little  district  of  Iraghticonnor,  with  Cairig-a-foyle  Castle 
as  their  last  strong  hold. 

In  the  year  1478  John  O'Connor-Kerry,  then  tiie  Chief, 
founded  a  monastery  for  Franciscan  friars  at  Lislaghtin,  on 
the  Shannon,  from  which  circumstance  he  is  styled  on  the 
Pedigree  John  of  Lislaghtin,  and  there  himself  and  his  wife 
Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir  David  Nagle  of  Monanimy,  were 
interred.  Connor  ^n  the  fair,  a  Chief  of  this  Sept,  who  fell 
at  Lixnaw  in  1568  in  hostility  with  the  Fitz-Maurices,  is 
lamented  with  much  eulogy  by  the  Four  Masters.  The 
second  Chief  after  him  in  the  succession  is  a  very  remarkable 
character  indeed,  styled  John  '  of  the  battles,'  for  sixty  years 
the  acknowledged  head  of  the  family.  He  fought  for  Des- 
mond to  the  close  of  the  Munster  war  of  Queen  Elizabeth's 
time,  and  Philip  O' Sullivan  bear,  in  his  Compendium  of  the 
History  of  Catholic  Ireland,  narrates  some  interesting  parti- 
culars  of  this  Chief  and  his  arduous  retreat  from  Glengariff 
to  the  country  of  the  O'Suarc  in  Leitrim.  He  died  in  1639, 
s.p.<,  this  family  existing,  at  the  time  of  his  decease,  in  seven 
distinct  lines :  but,  by  the  confiscations  consequent  upon  the 
Desmond  rising  and  the  general  civil  war  of  1641,  their 
properties  were  almost  entirely  swept  away,  the  chief  parcels 
having  been  by  Queen  Elizabeth  and  James  the  First  granted 


LOBD  kenmabb's  infaktby.  329 

to  the  favoured  eatabliBlmient  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin. 
The  descendants  of  these  then  numerous  branches  were  all 
cast  into  an  obscurity,  from  which  their  individual  merits 
coidd  alone  raise  them.  John  '  of  the  >vine,'  the  nephew  of 
him  '  of  the  battles,'  succeeded  him  in  the  Chiefry,  and  was 
hanged  at  Tralee  in  1652  for  his  obstinate  resistance  to  the 
usurping  powers.  His  nephew,  Cathal  roe  O'Connor-Kerry, 
waB  the  last  publicly  acknowledged  Chief,  and  he  waa  the 
above  Captain. 

He  had  married  in  1670  Elizabeth  FitzMaurice,  a  daughter 
of  Patrick  the  19th  Lord  of  Kerry,  she  died  in  London  in 
1733  aged  83  years,  having  left  only  two  daughters  by  her 
said  husband.  After  the  battle  of  Aughrim  Cathal  roe  fled 
to  France,  and  there  died  at  the  commencement  of  the 
eighteenth  century,  his  brothers  Donogh  and  Cahir  O'Connor 
had  both  been  previously  slain  in  Flanders,  leaving  no  issue. 
They  were  all  the  sons  of  Connor  O'Connor-Kerry  of  Carrig- 
afoyle,  and  on  such  their  decease,  this  elder  line  of  the  Sept 
became  extinct.  After  losing  his  ancient  inheritance  and  all 
his  sons,  and  witnessing  the  fate  of  his  own  brother,  as  before 
mentioned  in  1652,  this  landless  old  gentleman  wandered 
until  his  death  through  the  Counties  of  Kerry  and  Clare. 

On  this  failure  of  the  elder  line  Dermot  O'Connor-Kerry,  a 
descendant  of  Dermot  O'Connor  of  Tarbert,  who  was  the 
second  son  of  John  of  Lislaghtin,  succeeded  to  the  Chiefry. 
Of  this,  the  Tarbert  line,  it  is  necessary  here  to  premise  that 
Dermot,  its  founder,  having,  though  a  younger  son,  been 
deemed  the  most  energetic  of  the  &mily,  his  father  gave  him 
Tarbert,  then  comprising  three  parishes  in  Imght-i-Connor; 
but,  early  in  the  reign  of  James  the  First,  the  policy  of  that 
monarch  transplanted  a  number  of  the  natives  of  Leix  thither, 
whose  descendants  are  there  traceable.     The  attainders  of 


330  KiiTG  James's  imsH  abmt  list, 

1641  found  seveti  O'Connors  of  this  Sept  still  proprietors  of 
such  importanoe  as  to  invite  oonfiscations.     In  1653  Teigue, 
son  of  Thomas  O'Connor  of  this  Tarbert  line,  -vras  hanged 
on  Fair  Hill,  at  Killamej,  fbr  sinukr  political  reasons  as 
Was    'John    of   the   Wine'    at   Tndee    in    the   preceding 
year.     Thomas,  the  &ther  of  this  Teigue,  having  (says  a 
maiiuscript  memoir  of  this  House)  reoeived  from  the  good 
Sir  Valentine  Browne,  ancestor  of  the  Earl  of  Kenmare,  a 
promise  of  a  valuable  leasehold  interest  near  Eollamey,  had 
previously  resolved  to  close  his  life  there.     It  was  then  his 
only  resource,  and  'on  a  fitir  night  in  summer  the  Lord  of 
Tarbert  bade  it  an  eternal  adieu.     With  his  daughter-in-law, 
seated  behind  him  on  a  pillion,  her  two  children  David  and 
Connor  each  oh  horseback  in  charge  of  a  trusty  retainer,  and 
all  the  jHToperty,  that  could  be  saved,  well  packed  upon  the 
backs  of  Kerry  ponies,  he  made  his  weary  journey  southward ; 
and,  after  a  few  nights  of  cautious  travelling,  arrived  safely  at 
the  spot,  where  his  bones  were  to  find  their  last  repose.' 
David,  his  grandson,  who  had  become  the  representative  of 
the   Sept,  with  a  feeling  of  pride  and  independence  not 
uncommon  at  the  time,  would  not  avail  himself  of  the  tenure 
Sir  Valentine  Browne  was  willing  to  continue  to  him,  but 
resigning  its  advantage  to  his  brother,  Connor,  himself  retired 
to   Spring  Mount,   an  isolated  spot  between  Kilcow  and 
CluantarifF,  'which  was  well  protected  against  Saxon  invasion, 
by  the  impassable  bogs  and  morasses  of  the  last-named  ftstness 
and  the  extensive  forest  of  the  first.'     There  vrith  a  daughter 
and  six  sons  he  led  a  hunter's  li^e.     From  Dermod  O'Connor- 
Kerry,  his  eldest  son,  lineally  descended  James  O'Connor- 
Kerry,  for  some  years  Clerit  of  the  Peace  in  that  County,  who, 
marrying  Betsy  O'Cohnell  a  near  relative  of  the  illustrious 
Daniel,  had  issue  by  her  seven  sons  and  three  daughters.    Of 


LOBD  kbnmare's  infantet.  331 

these  flons  the  fourth  is  Daniel  O'Oonnell  O'Connor-Keity, 
whose  patronymic  dispkjB  the  old  distinction  of  his  anc^tral 
county,  while  the  Christian  name  he  bears  is  the  name  of  its 
moM  illustrious  otitiament.  lliis  gallant  young  officer  entered 
the  Austrian  service  in  1826)  as  cadet  in  the  Regiment  of 
Field-Marshal  O'Brady,  from  which,  OA  obtaining  rank  as  a 
Lieutenant,  he  was  transfared  by  Count  Kavali^h,  the 
famous  Aulic  Councillor  and  Secretary  of  War,  to  that  of 
Bftron  G-ip^rt,  in  which  he  became  Lieutenant-Colonel. 
He  fought  with  distinction  under  Badetsky  during  the 
campaign  of  1848-9,  and,  on  the  death  of  his  Colonel,  was 
called  to  the  command  on  the  field.  He  was  twice  Com- 
mandant at  Lodi,  also  at  Prague,  and  has  served  in  the  same 
dapocity  at  Mantua,  up  to  the  treaty  of  Villa-Franca. 

Hie  interestii^  MS.,  from  which  much  of  the  above  notices 
has  been  derived,  was  compiled  by  the  Beverend  Charles 
James  O^Connor,  a  brother  of  the  above  Lieutenant-Colonel. 
Its  pages  afford  distinct  illustrations  of  this  great  Sept  in  the 
brandies  of  Fieries,  Knockanure,  Kilgarvan,  Ahannagrane, 
Nohoval,  Bathonane  and  Connorville, 


CAPTAm  CHEIS'f OPHER  FAGAN. 

Ybbt  frill  particulars  of  this  family  have  been  given,  ^nte, 
p.  16,  &c.,  at  the  name  of  Captain  Bichard  Fagan  of  the 
King's  Own  Infantry  Regiment.  This  Christopher  was 
his  cousin,  fought  at  Aughrim,  was  included  in  the  benefit 
of  the  Articles  of  Limerick,  purchased  property  in  Kerry, 
and  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Patrick  Nagle  of  Ballinamona 
Castle,  by  Catherine,  daughter  of  Hugh  de  Lacy  of  Bruff, 


332  KINO  James's  ibish  army  list. 

Cojmtj  of  Limerick.  He  settled  in  Kerry,  and,  dying  in 
1740,  was  buried  in  the  Abbey  of  Ejllamey.  His  grandson 
and  namesake,  Christopher,  entered  the  French  army  in 
1755,  in  which  he  distinguished  himself  and  bore  the  style 
of  the  Chevalier  de  Fagan ;  but,  by  his  attachment  to  Boyally, 
he  too  lost,  on  the  breaking  out  of  the  Beyolution,  what 
he  had  acquired  there,  and  died  in  London  in  1816,  at  the 
advanced  age  of  eighty-three.  Christopher,  his  eldest  son, 
a  Captain  in  Dillon's  French  Brigade,  afterwards  entered 
the  English  service,  and  died  unmarried  in  the  West  Lidies. 
Charles,  his  brother,  married  a  Marchioness,  daughter  of  a 
Grandee  of  Spain  of  the  First  Class,  and  by  Boyal  permis- 
sion bore  the  title  of  Count  de  Fagan;  he  died  in  1813.* 

A  brother  of  Christopher  (the  aforesaid  Chevalier  de  Fagan), 
was  John  Fagan  of  Kiltallah,  Counly  of  Kerry,  who  married 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  George  Hickson  of  Tralee,  by  Mary, 
only  daughter  of  Henry  Gould,  Esq.,  of  Cork ;  and  he  had 
by  her  eight  sons,  five  of  whom  entered  military  service 
in  the  armies  of  the  East  India  Company.  The  two  eldest 
sons,  Patrick  and  George,  died  in  their  infancy.  George 
Hickson,  the  third  son,  lost  his  left  arm  at  the  siege  of 
Seringapatam,  and  eventually,  by  acknowledged  transcendent 
abilities,  rose  at  the  early  age  of  thirty-four,  to  the  high 
post  of  Adjutant-General  of  the  Bengal  Army.  The  fourth, 
Patrick  Charles,  died  at  the  premature  age  of  twenly-eight, 
from  fatigues  and  hardships  after  the  first  siege  of  Bhurtpore, 
where,  under  peculiar  circumstances,  he  planted  the  colours 
of  his  regiment  on  the  ramparts.  The  fifth  son,  Major- 
General  Christopher  Sullivan  Fagan,  C.B.,  served  in  the 
Mahratta  campaigns,  at  the  reduction  of  numerous  forts  in 

*  Barkers  Landed  Gentry. 


^1 


LOBD   KENMARE's  INFANTRY.  333 

Bundelcund,  capture  of  Gualior,  and  Bhurtpore,  &c.,  for  his 
services  on  which  occasions,  he  received  the  thanks  of  the 
Government  and  of  both  Houses  of  Parliament.  This  last 
officer  had  four  sons  in  the  Bengal  army ;  the  eldest,  George 
Hickson,  of  the  Engineers,  repeatedly  received  the  thanks 
of  the  Government;  and,  after  being  engaged  many  years 
in  recovering  from  the  sea  and  embanking  extensive  wild 
and  unhealthy  tracts  of  country,  his  health  completely  failed, 
and,  though  appointed  garrison  en^neer  of  Fort  William, 
(the  principal  fortress  in  India,)  during  the  war  with  Russia, 
with  special  orders  for  its  repair  and  armament;  after  a  year's 
further  trial  of  the  climate,  he  was  most  reluctantly  compelled 
to  retire  from  the  service  as  a  Lieutenant^Colonel.  The 
second  son  of  C.  S.  Fagan,  Christopher,  is  a  merchant  in 
Calcutta.  The  third  son,  John,  died  a  Captain  in  the  1st 
Bengal  Fusiliers,  from  the  effects  of  the  camp  ague  in 
Afghanistan,  and  the  hardships  of  the  siege  of  Ghuznee,  where 
he  was  wounded.  The  fourth,  Robert  Charles  Henry  Baines, 
of  the  Bengal  Artillery,  distinguished  himself  greatly  during 
the  mutiny  in  India  and  siege  of  Delhi,  where,  after  having 
been  wounded  eight  times,  he  was  eventually  killed  on  the 
evening  before  the  assault.  He  was  an  admirable  officer 
and  of  such  reckless  courage,  that  he  could  not  be  restrained 
from  exposing  himself  over  the  breastwork  of  his  battery, 
and  was  shot  through  the  head  by  a  musket  ball,  from  the 
ramparts  of  a  fortress  which  his  engineer  brother  had  assisted 
in  constructing  from  1831  to  1834. 

Robert,  the  sixth  son  of  John  Fagan  of  Kiltallah,  having 
entered  the  British  service,  was  wounded  in  the  assault  of 
Bona  Fortuna,  in  the  island  of  Martinico,  in  1802,  and 
fell  in  the  following  year  at  the  taking  of  St.  Lucia.  The 
seventh  son,  John,  a  Lieutenant  on  the  Bengal  establishment 


334  KING  JAMES'S   IBI8H  ABMT   LIST. 

of  the  East  India  Compaiiy,  died  at  Mallow  in  1809.  The 
eightl^  son,  and  youngest  of  this  family,  James  Patrick,  is 
the  survivor  of  those  who  served  in  India.  He  was  engaged 
in  the  arduous  campaigns  under  Sir  Bobert  Abercrombie 
against  the  French  islands  in  the  Indian  Seas,  and  in  that 
against  Nepai^,  in  the  capacity  of  Brigade-Major  to  the 
advance  division  of  the  army ;  for  which  service  be  received 
the  war  medal,  and  was  nominated  Paymaster-in-Chief  to  all 
the  troops  constituting  the  Baypoolana  and  Malwah  field 
forces.  This  appointment  he;  held  for  sixteen  years,  when 
he  was  co^ipelled  to  return  for  his  health  to  Europe,  having 
received  a  gratifying  acknowledgment  of  his  services,  in  a 
spedal  report  .from  Lord  William  Bentinck,  then  Governor- 
General.  He  and  his  brothers,  while  in  India,  were  called 
*  the  military  fiunily/  Lieutenant-Colonel  Fagan  (as  he  now 
ranks),  being  anxious  to  continue  this  designation  in  his  line, 
placed  two  of  his  sons  in  the  Indian  army,  one  of  whom 
has  fidlen  in  the  recent  mutinous  outbreaks  of  that  country. 

The  second  son  of  the  Captun  Chi^topher  Fagan,  w^o 
ranked  in  this  Be^ment,  was  Stephen  Fagan,  a  merchant 
of  Cork,  and  his  son,  James,  married  Ellen,  daughter  of 
Ignatius  Trant^  Esq*,  lineal  descendant  of  Sir  Patrick  Trant, 
whose  attainder  and  confiscations  are  above  mentioned. 
William  Fagan,  late  a  member  of  Parliament  for  the  City 
of  Coifk,  was  the  eldest  son  of  that  marriage;  and  he  too 
Uved  to  mourn  the  loss  of  a  son,  Lieutenant  Hornby  Fagan, 
in  the  massacre  of  Cawnpore. 


tOBD  KBNMABfi^S   INFAKTBT.  335 


LIEUTENANT  THOMAS  CABTEB. 

Tms  surname  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of 
Edward  the  I^irst,  and  in  1308  John  de  'Cartyr'  sned 
out  a  possessory  writ.  Nothing  hoWeyer  has  been  ascertained 
concerning  this  officer,  or  his  kindred ;  another  of  the  name 
w^  Comet  in  Colonel  Simon  Luttrell's  Dragoons. 

A  family  of  the  name  was  settled  at  Castlemartin  in 
Kildare,  but  it  was  of  very  opposite  politics. 


LIEUTENANT  AND  ENSIGN  GOOLDK 

This  name  is  of  such  high  antiquity,  and  so  early  traceable 
in  England,  especially  in  Devonshire,  that  Lysons,  in  his 
History  of  that  County,  states  '  Grole '  to  have  been  one  of 
Its  Thanes  in  the  time  of  Edward  the  Confessor;  while  the 
Domesday  (Ely)  Inquisition  reports  *  Gold,'  a  tenant  of  the 
Abbot  at  Willingham  in  Cambridgeshire.  CoUinson  in 
his  Somersetshire  (vol.  2,  p.  172,)  relates  that,  on  the  dis^ 
tribution^  of  conquered  England  by  William,  the  Sieur  de 
Vans  (de  Vallibus)  who  had  come  over  with  him,  had  a 
grant  of  the  manor  of  Seaborough  in  that  County;  and 
when  Henry  the  Third  undertook  a  Crusade  to  the  Holy 
Land,  Balph  de  Vans,  being  then  seised  of  the  manor,  and 
bound  by  military  tenure  to  send  men  to  the  King's  service 
in  that  expedition,  despatched  amongst  others  thereout  John 
Gole  or  Gold,  who  accordingly  went  to  Jerusalem,  was 
present  and  fought  valiantly  at  the  siege  of  Damietta,  w^d, 


336  KIS6  JJkMMS'S  IBISH  ABXT  LOT. 

OD  loB  rttam,  leoared  from  Us  Loid,  abonl  tlie  jtar  1229, 
n  estate  within  mid  msDor.  In  1321  tlie  whole  muor 
was  pmehased  bj  a  J(4m  Golde,  wlio  it  waaj  be  praBumed 
was  a  descendant  of  the  Cnuader,  and  the  estate,  so  aoqmred 
bj  him,  was  inherited  bj  his  drnmidantfl  tot  u|»waids  of 
two  centories.  The  hst  pn^netor  of  the  name  here  was 
also  a  J(4m  Gold,  who  was  killed  on  the  groond  when 
ei^jsged  in  the  sport  of  hawking.  He  left  Ibor  sisten  his 
heiresses,  who  were  married,  and  amongst  them  the  ptupeiiv 
was  partitioned  In  the  Parliament  hdd  at  Carlisle  in  1307, 
John  'Crohie*  probably  of  Seaboroogfa,  sat  as  the  Bepre- 
sentatire  of  Windsor,  and  the  name  is  still  of  tenure  and 
respectability  in  Devonshire.  In  the  same  year  Walter  '  le 
Goole '  was  one  of  the  Bepresentadves  of  Notdngliamshire 
in  Parliament.  He  was  afterwards  entmsled  with  many 
commisricMis  of  Ministerial  importance  there.  Lyscms,  in 
his  Magna  Britannia  (voL  6,  p.  czlvL)  says,  that  the  elder 
branch  of  the  Goulds  of  Lew-Trenchard  in  Devonshire  is 
traced  as  dtizens  of  Exeter  to  the  days  of  Edward  the  Third. 

^The  same  anthor  records  in  his  work  (p.  244)  the 

deaths  in  that  Coonly,  in  March,  1817,  and  within  a  few 
days  of  each  other,  of  Simon  and  Julian  '  Gt>ald,'  both  in 
the  lOlst  year  of  their  age,  after  a  married  life  of  seventy- 
five  years. 

It  has  been  erroneously  stated  that  the  Groulds  were  one 
of  the  English  &milie8  whom  Lord  Muskerry,  on  the  Plan- 
tation of  Munster  by  James  the  First,  brought  over  to  that 
Province ;  but  their  settlement  in  Cork  was  of  a  date  very 
early  after  the  English  invasion,  as  is  shown  by  a  record 
of  1356,  upon  which  Nicholas  '  Gould  *  appears  commissioned 
as  one  of  these  infiuential  persons  chosen  to  applot  a  state  sub- 
sidy off  that  County,  as  was  David  *  Gold '  in  two  years  after. 


LOBD  kbnmabe's  infantbt.  337 

With  the  Municipal  History  of  the  City  they  were,  during 
the  years  previous  to  the  first  Civil  War,  intimately  con- 
nected, Golds  having  been  Mayors  of  Cork,  from  1442 
to  1640,  no  less  than  thirty  times;  but  afterwards  they 
ceased  to  fill  any  corporate  ofiice  there.  Queen  Elizabeth's 
instructions  to  her  Lord  President  of  Munster,  Sir  Greorge 
Carew,  in  1600,  directed  that  William  Saxey,  Chief  Justice, 
and  James  Golde,  second  Justice  of  the  said  Province, 
being  of  special  trust  appointed  to  be  of  his  Council,  shall 
give  their  continual  attendance  thereat,  and  shall  not  depart 
at  any  time  without  the  special  Kcense  of  the  said  Lord 
President.  The  salary  of  the  Chief  was  fixed  at  £100,  that 
of  James  GK>lde  at  one  hundred  marks,  subject  to  deductions 
in  case  of  their  absence  firom  the  duties  so  imposed  upon 
them.  A  Manuscript  Book  of  Obits  in  Trinity  College, 
Dublin  (F.  iv.  18),  supplies  some  links  of  the  family  of 
William  Goold,  Mayor  of  Cork  in  1618,  and  who  died 
in  1634«  Various  Inquisitions,  post  mortem,  held  on  members 
of  this  family,  as  Philip,  George,  Michael,  Thomas,  Peter, 
Henry,  and  John  in  Cork,  with  others  on  James  in  Limerick, 
are  preserved  in  the  Rolls  Office,  Ireland.  The  latter  died 
in  1600,  seised  of  the  Dominican  Friary  in  Limerick,  with 
the  castle^  town,  and  lands  of  Corbally ;  his  descendant  and 
namesake  was  appointed  the  first  Town  Clerk  and  Clerk  of 
the  Crown,  in  the  great  Charter  to  the  City  of  Cork. 

The  Attainders  of  1642  include  the  names  of  Grarrett 
'Goold'  of  Castietown,  and  of  James  and  John,  sons  of 
Richard  GK>oId  of  Towers-Bridge,  merchants*  John  Goold, 
described  as  of  Cork,  was  the  only  member  of  the  family 
who  attended  the  Supreme  Council  in  1647,  while  in  1667, 
James  '  Gold '  of  Cork  had  a  confirmatory  grant  of  2,140 
acres  there,  with  a  saving  of  portions  for  his  sisters  Mary 

VOL.  II.  z 


338  MSXQ  JAMBS'S  IBI8H  ASXT  LI8T. 

and  AnfftaoB  Crold.  In  tlie  following  year,  James  'Gonld* 
passed  patent  for  231  acsres  in  Meathi  and,  in  a  grut  of  tlie 
ssme  period  to  Edivard  Warren,  was  a  saving  of  certain 
chaiges,  on  tlie  premises  tlierdij  conyeyed,  to  Sr  Qanett 
Gtyolde.— -Besides  the  above  Loentenant  and  Ewdgn  tliere 
appear  on  this  list  Bobot  GrOoU  a  Corned  in  Cokndl 
Fiands  Canoll's  Diagooos;  Thomas  'OoU*  an  Endgn  in 

Cdond  Nicholas  Browne's  Infiintry;  Goold  a  lien* 

tenant  in  Cokmd  Owen  Mac  Cartie's;    James  GM^  an 

Enngn  in  Cdonel  John  Banett's;  and  another Goold 

an  Ensign  in  Mi^or  (Jeneial  Boissdean's.  The  Attainders 
of  1691  indnde  the  names  of  James  and  Ignatius  Gooldi 
described  as  of  Cock,  Esquiresi  Jdm  Goold  of  Sjnsslei 
Esq.;  Bichard  of  C<»k,  merchant;  Patrick  oi  mid  City; 
James  'Goold*  of  Galway,  and  Elloi  Bi^ot,  otherwise 
Goold,  wife  of  John  Bagoi  of  Cori^. 

Amongst  those  who  were  tsken  at  sea  in  1746,  tolim« 
teeriiig  to  aid  the  caose  of  Prince  Charles  Edward,  was 
'Captain  Gook},  Ultonia  Begimfant,  Spanish  service.**  In 
the  Church  of  St.  Giles  at  Brogos  is  a  bmaal  place  of 
William  Godd,  *  of  ancient  and  TenevaUe  lineage  in  Coric^' 
**kufU9  eodmfK  ceJ^Jtuiy  as  inscribed  upon  a  white  maiUe  sbb 
inserted  in  the  flag  of  the  Chapd  of  the  Blessed  yiigin.t 
At  the  Irish  Bar  Thomas  Goold  was  long  an  emineaii 
Qneen^s  Counsel  He  died  in  1846,  leaving  three  sons) 
1,  Francis,  who  had  been  High  SheriflP  of  Limerick,  once 
deceased;  2,  Frederic,  now  the  Very  Bey.  Archdeacon  <tf 
Baphoe;  and  3,  Wyndham  Goold,  who,  for  some  time 
{Mrevions  to  his  death  in  1854,  was  one  of  the  Bepresentatiyes 

•  GtHL  Mag^  vol  IS,  pw  SOa 
f  NkhM$  T<qf.  and  GftC^for  18^  p.  636. 


LOBD  SLANB'S  IKVANTBT. 


339 


in  Parliament  of  the  County  of  Limerick. In  1801  a 

branch  of  this  fiimilj  was  raised  to  the  Baronetcy  in  Sir 
Francis  Goold  of  Oldcourt,  County  Cork;  while  it  may  be 
added  that  in  1782  the  seventh  Earl  of  Cavan  married 
Honora,  youngest  daughter  of  Sir  Henry  *  Gould/  Knight, 
one  of  the  Justices  of  ike  Common  Pleas  at  Westminster. 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 


CHBlSTOPHEBi  LOBD  BULNE's. 


Ctpiamit 

LimttmaniL 

Miuigiu, 

Th«  Colonel 

tgUAtiiu  Nagle* 

•i>s-^  Fleming. 

lffaim(!e  O^Connell, 

'Bnme.' 

' — O^ConnelL 

Lieat-ColoneL 
^—.-Fitzgerald) 

A^^^^    ^   0m  ^   ^   ^  ^  ^ 

Majoiw 

'^^WMoiL 

Bflthfl. 

-fc-^Walten. 

■   ■  ■  BVoivdi 

•»—.  Flood. 

«— Gntei 

^  ■  ■  Gofjudia 

«-*Fktt]]ig. 

•— Jonei. 

Toole. 

'HolahuL* 

— -Conly. 

* — fidlew. 

«^— Delahoyda. 

w— Bany. 

«^— Fleming. 

«— -Bany. 

—  BanewalL 

.•^— Berford. 

«-*  Nolan. 

Loko  Syerud* 

-^.OnsadL 

Bichard  Uflall. 

fitrthoimaeir  Cttaack. 

-^^deBathA 

UTalterUslMr. 

•^^dwreo. 

-.—  Stokes. 

«^»  Brett. 

ttiehnd  KeUy. 
Cbrifltophv  CvMck. 

£diluitid  Tnmt 

Simon  DonaeUj. 

lt«Tennd*««-Ertt»rd,  Ckc^^hku 

KING  JJJfS8*8  IBI8H  ASXT  U8T. 


COLONEL  CHSISTOPHEB  FLEMING.  LORD 

SLANE. 

Richard  iie  FLCJOsa,  000  of  ArrhihaH  Fknm^  c^ 
DevoDflluie,  Kttended  Hugh  de  Lacy  to  Iiebaid,  and  got 
firom  him,  witfam  ^  Palafinatp  c^  Meath,  twenty  Knights' 
Fees,  afterwards  called  the  Baronies  of  Skne  and  Newcastle. 
This  gnmt  oonstitated  Kchard,  aooording  to  the  powers  c^ 
the  Faktine,  one  of  his  Baimis  or  Magnates.  ''  In  1176,** 
flay  the  Foot  Masters,  ''the  Castle  of  Slane,  whidi  was 
oocajned  by  Richard  Fleming  and  his  forces,  (and  from 
which  he  was  in  the  habit  of  "^•^"g  predatory  incursions 
into  Oriel  [Lonth,  Monaghaii,  and  Armagh],  and  Hy  Briun 
[in  Tyrone],  and  against  the  men  of  Meath),  was  plundered 
by  Melaghlin,  son  of  Mac  Laughlin  of  Einel-Owen  [County 
of  Tyrone],  at  the  head  of  the  Kinel-Owen  and  the  people  of 
Oriel.  They  slew  about  five  hundred  or  more  of  the  English 
And  thdr  horses,  and  not  one  person  escaped  with  his  life 
from  the  Castle.  Richard  Fleming  was  slain  on  that  occasion.** 
When  Edward  the  Second  summoned  the  Magnates  of 
Ireland  to  aid  Mm  in  the  Scottish  war,  he  directed  a  letter 
missiTe  to  Baldwin  le  Fleming,  Who  had  married  Matilda, 
daughter  of  Simon  de  Geneville.  He  was  summoned  to  the 
Parliament  of  Eilkeimy  in  1302^  and  died  in  the  year  1335* 

In  1580  Thomas  Fleming  of  Gemonstown,  joined  by  his 
son  and  hdbr,  Patrick,  executed  a  conveyance  of  Philipstown* 
EencTick,  and  other  estates  in  Louth;  while,  in  1603  and 
1619,  King  James  granted  to  Captain  Gerald  Fleming 
various  rectories,  with  thdbr  tithes,  which,  having  been  for^ 
feited  in  the  ensuing  Civil  war,  Charles  the  Second,  'on 


LORD  SLAKB'8   infantry.  341 

account  of  the  eminent  and  &ithftil  seryices  performed  to  the 
Crown  hj  the  ancestors  of  said  Gerald,  styled  of  Castle- 
Flenung,  and  his  suflferings  under  the  late  Government,' 
directed  should  be  restored  to  him  and  put  into  charge. 
These  rectories,  <&c.,  are  fully  enumerated  in  a  patent  of 
1608.  This  Gerald,  styled  of  Ballylegan,  County  Louth, 
and  of  Calragh,  County  Cayan,  died  in  1615,  leaving 
Thomas  his  son  and  heir,  then  aged  twenty-^siz  and  married. 

In  1621  died  Christopher  Fleming  of  the  Newry,  John, 

his  son  and  heir  beii^g  then  aged  sixteen  years. 

The  Attainders  of  1642  present  the  names  of  William, 
Lord  Baron  of  Slane,  James  Fleming  of  Slane  and  Stahal- 
mock.  County  of  Meath;  Thomas  Fleming  of  Cavan;  George 
of  Blakestown,  County  of  Eoldare;  and  Christopher  of 
Clonelean,  County  of  Dublin.  Thomas  of  Cabiagh  was  one 
of  the  Confederate  Catholics  who  constituted  the  Supreme 
Council  of  ELilkenny ;  and  in  1652  the  then  Baron  of  Slane 
was,  by  Cromwell's  Act,  excepted  from  pardon  for  life  and 
estate.  The  name  of  Captains  Alexander  and  John  Fleming 
appear  on  the  Boll  of  Adjudications  for  the  '  1649'  Officers, 
and  in  1676  James  Fleming,  of  Stahalmock,  passed  patent 
for  a  large  tract  of  country  in  Meath  and  Monagbao. 

In  January,  1685-3-6,  the  Earl  of  Clarendon  applied  to  the 
Earl  of  Sunderland,  for  his  interest  to  obtain  a  vacant 
cometoy  in  Colonel  Hamilton's  Begpment  for  Mr,  Bichard 
Fleming,  '^who  is  a  very  worthy  young  man,  and  well 
deserves  his  Majesty's  countenance;  besides  the  &vour  it 
wiU  be  to  me,  your  Lordship  will  oblige  a  very  good  man 
in  England,  Sir  Bichard  Bellings,  to  whom  this  young 
gentleman  is  nephew  ;''*  a  request  which  met  with  the  usual 

*  Smger*s  Ccrrespandence^  toI.  },  p.  1^23, 


342  KIKa  JAMES'S  IBISH  ABlfT  LIST. 

cautioiis  postponement.  In  1687  Sir  John  Fleming  irae 
Sheriff  of  the  Countj  of  Monaghan.  Henry  Fleming,  the 
brother  of  this  Lord  Slane,  was  a  Captain  in  Grahnoj's  Horse. 
The  Lord  himself  sat  in  King  James's  Parliammt  of  1689. 
He  fought  at  the  battle  of  the  Boyne,  in  a  few  days  after 
which  the  Lady  Anne,  Baroness  of  Slane,  came  to  Dublin, 
then  in  the  hands  of  King  William,  and  threw  herself  on  his 
mercy  for  a  pass  for  herself,  three  men,  and  three  servants.* 
Her  lord,  however,  persevering  in  his  adherence  to  King 
James,  was  taken  prisoner  at  Aughrim.t  ^e  was  attainted 
in  1691,  when  bis  estates  were  gmnted  to  the  Earl  of 
Athlone,  who  subsequently  assigned  them  io  portions  to 
eight  other  individuals;  while,  at  the  sale  of  the  forfeitures 
in  1703,  the  manor,  castle,  and  lands  of  Slane  were  purchased 
by  Brigadier  Heniy  Conyngham.  The  landless  lord  followed 
the  monarch  of  his  adoption  to  France,  where  he  remained 
until,  in  1708,  he  had  a  pension  of  £500  jMrr  annum  allowed 
to  him,  and  was  restored  to  his  honours  but  not  to  his  estates, 
by  Queen  Anne.  In  1713  be  was  advanced  in  the  Peerage 
to  be  Viscount  Longford*  but  no  patent  issued,  and  he  died 
in  France  in  1726,  leaving  a  daughter,  Qelen  Fleming,  his 
only  issue,  who  died  in  Paris,  7th  August,  17i8,  unmanried. 
Captain  Richard,  son  of  the  aforesaid  Sir  John  Fleming,  was 
killed  at  the  siege  of  Derry ;  and  it  appears  by  his  attainder, 
post  mortem^  in  1694,  that  he  had  been  possessed  of  very 
considerable  estates  in  the  County  of  Monaghan.  The 
Attainders  of  1691  included  with  Lord  Slane,  John  Fleming 
of  Stahafanock,  Knight,  who  is  stated  by  the  Liquisition 
taken  on  his  outlawry,  at  the  close  of  1690,  to  have  been 
personally  engaged  at  the  battle  of  the  Bojme. 

^  Thorpe's  Catalogue  of  (he  SouAtoeU  MSS.^  p.  334. 
t  Story's  Impartial  HisL,  ptrt  IL,  p.  487. 


^w 


LOBD  blank's  IN7AKTBT.  843 

At  the  Court  of  Claims  in  1700,  Sir  Stephen  Bice,  on 
behalf  of  Ellen,  the  only  daughter  of  the  Lady  Anne  Slane, 
claimed  for  her  a  portion  and  maintenanoe  off  Lord  Slane's 
Meath  estate,  but  his  applioation  was  dismist  for  non-prosecu- 
tion; he  also  claimed  fbr  Ladj  Anne  herself,  and  was  allowed 
£200  p^  arm,  during  the  life  of  Christopher,  Lord  Slane, 
and  £800  per  ann.  as  her  jointure  on  his  decease;  William 
Fleming  claimed,  as  son  and  heir  of  Thomas,  who  was  one 
of  the  sons  of  William,  late  Lord  Slane,  an  estate  tail  in  the 
Meath,  Louth,  Cayan,  and  Monaghan  estates  of  the  above 
Lord  Christopher;  as  did  Michael  Fleming  a  remainder  in 
tail  in  the  castle,  manor,  towns,  and  lands  of  Slane;  but  both 
these  petitions  were  also  dismist  for  non>proseoution. 

The  obituary  of  the  QenUemarCs  Magazine  of  1747  notices 
the  then  reoexit  death,  but  without  pre(use  date,  of  ^^  William 
Fleming,  commonly  called  Lord  Slane,  who  had  an  annual 
pension  of  £300  from  his  Majesty.  IJis  unde,  to  whom  he 
was  heir,  had  forfeited  an  estate  of  £25,000  per  annum  for 
adhering  to  King  James  the  Second,  whom  he  followed  to 
France ;  but,  being  ill^-treated  there  and  in  Spain*  returned  to 
England,  where  he  obtained  a  pension  fiN>m  Queen  Anne 
and  a  Begiment  on  the  Irish  establishment;  but  he  died  not 
long  after/'  This  WiUiam,  who  so  assumed  the  title,  left  a 
son,  Christopher,  also  commonly  called  Lord  SlanCt  and  he 
too  died  without  issue  male  in  1772, 


344  KOTG  JAICES^S  mgH  AEXT  UflfT 


LDEUTENANT^OLONEL  MAUBICE 

O'CONNELL. 

The  Sept  O'ConneU  was  aebed  of  territoiy  in  tbe  barony 
of  Leitrimf  Coonty  of  Gralway ;  and  in  that  of  Tullagh, 
County  of  Clare;  bnt  were  yet  more  espeoiaUy  located  in 
Hy-Conaill  Ghibhia,  compriaing  die  present  baronies  of  Uj^per 
and  Lfower  Connillo,  County  of  Lomerick;  while  in  the  tenth 
century  the  deaths  of  O'Connells,  Abbots  of  Devenish,  are 
commemorated,  and  two  townlands  in  that  pariah  haye,  finom 
time  immemorial,  borne  the  respective  names  of  Bally-Connell 
and  61en-ti-ConneIL  At  the  evo'-niemorable  battle  of 
Clontarf,  in  1014,  the  Chief  of  the  O'ConneUs  was  one  of 
the  leaders,  and  the  Four  IVIasters  record  the  death  in  1117 
of  Casey  O^Connell,  the  yenerable  *'  Bishop  of  Connaught.' 

Early  after  the  English  Invasion,  the  ancestors  of  the 
Earl  of  Desmond,  as  Lynch  relates  in  his  Feudal  Dtgniiie$^ 
(p.  231,)  acquired  from  this  sept  the  -mhxAB  territory  of  Conillo, 
in  consideration  of  other  lands  assigned  to  them  in  Kerry 
and  Clare.  They  were  then  populariy  styled  lords  of  Bally<- 
,  carberry,  in  the  Barony  of  Iveragh ;  and  &  Bernard  Burke, 
in  his  Landed  Oentry^  gives  full  details  of  these  Kerry 
O'Connells. 

In  1423,  Conor  O'ConneU  died  Bishop  of  Killalla.  In 
1435  an  ex-officio  information  was  filed  by  the  King's  Ser- 
geant at  Law  agaiQSt  David  ^  O'Conyll,'  clerk,  an  Irish  enemy, 
for  that  he  constantly  sojourned  among  the  OTerralls,  then 
openly  at  war  with  the  King,  and  had  lodged  a  sum  of 
money  for  his  own  use  mth  John  Hoey,  a  merchant  of 
Coventry ;  and  the    information    prayed   that  said  money 


LOBD  slane's  ikfantbt.  345 

should  be  attached,  and  John  directed  to  pay  same  to  the 
King,  which  was  done  accordingly.  In  1461  Cormac 
O'Connell  was  Bishop  of  Killalla,  as  was  Thomas  O'Connell 
of  Ardagh  in  1508.  This  last  was  educated  at  Oxford, 
and  Woods  commemorates  his  ^prudence  and  liberality  to 
the  poor.* 

A  manuscript  notice  of  the  County  Kerry,  preserved  in 
the  Boyal  Irish  Academy  Collections,  says,  in  reference  to 
the  intercourse  that  in  the  seventeenth  century  existed  with 
Spain  from  Ireland,  '  Nothing  then  in  vogue  with  the  in- 
habitants of  Kerry  but  Spanish  wine,  Spanish  clothes,  and 
Spanish  swords,  which  they  called  Spanish  tucks;  with 
other  commodities,  iron,  *  liquorish,*  fVuit,  &c.  As  instance 
whereof,  two  gentlemen  of  the  0*Connells,  brothers,  lived 
in  Bailyoarberry  Castle,  in  Iveragh,  which  was  divided 
among  them:  the  lower  rooms  to  the  eldest,  the  upper  to 
the  youngest.  At  a  time  that  Mac  Carthy  More  and  his 
lady,  with  their  attendants,  took  a  tour  to  eeid  Iveragh, 
they  put  up  first  with  the  eldest  of  eeid  two  brothers,  by 
whom  they  were  splendidly  entertained  that  oight  and  next 
day,  when  the  youngest  invited  them  to  dine  the  day  follow- 
ing,' <&c.,  on  which  occasion  the  Spanish  wines  were  most 

wastefully  consumed, *I  very  well  remember,'  adds  the 

writer  of  the  above  article,  'to  hear  ancient  people  tell, 
about  siattf  years  sinoe^  that  they  had  it  for  truth  from  other 
ancient  people,  about  eighty  years  before,  that,  at  the  little 
village,  which  was  at  Temple-no  church,  a  gallon  of  rich 
Spanish  wine  could  be  purchased  for  a  fresh  salmon,  and  a 
good  many  gallons  for  a  green  hide,' 

In  1642  William  O'Connell  was  one  of  those  who,  as 
proxy  for  the  Boman  Catholic  Bishop  of  Emly,  signed  the 
Acts  agreed  upon  in  the  Assembly  of  Confederate  Catholics ; 


346  KING  JAKES'S  IKIBH  ABUT  LIST. 

at  whioh  great  meetang  sat  Ricard  Connell,  Bishop  of 
Ardfert,  as  one  of  the  spiritoal  Peers.  On  the  attainders, 
that  immediately  sncoeeded,  appear  the  names  of  Phifip 
O'Connell  and  Charles  O'Connell  age  of  Knookrobbin,  in 
Cork.  In  a  few  years  after  flourished  John  O'Connell, 
Bishop  of  Ardfert,  ai|d  author  of  a  poem  on  the  History 
of  Ireland,  yet  extant. 

Besides  this  l4ieutenaat<<3olonel  Msurioe  (whose  promotion 
took  plaoe  subsequent  to  the  issue  of  the  present  Army  List,) 
Morgan  O'Connell  was  %  Captaiii  and  Tague  an  Ensign 
in  Colonel  Charles  0'Bryaa*s  Infantry;  -^.^r^  Connell  was 
a  Qnarfcer-Master  in  Sir  Neill  O'Neill's  Dragoons,  and  John 
Connell  a  lieutenant  in  the  King^s  Own  Infimtry.  John 
O'Connell  of  A^igore  and  Denynans^  raised  a  company  of 
Foot  for  this  servioe,  and  he  is  recorded  as  having  himself 
fought  at  the  siege  of  Deny,  as  well  as  at  the  battles  of 
the  Boyne  and  Aughrim*  when,  returning  to  Limerick  with 
his  shattered  Regiment,  he  was  included  in  the  benefit  of 
the  Articles  for  its  oapitulation.*  He  was  the  lineal  ancestor 
of  the  illustrious  Daniel,  and  his  l^^iment  was,  after  the 
battle  of  the  Boyne,  activdy  engaged  in  Munster,  Charles 
O'Connell  of  Braintree  in  Choe,  wi^  a  Colonel  of  Dragoons 
in  the  war,  and  his  brother,  another  Maurice,  counn^german 
to  the  above,  was  placed  in  command  of  the  King's  Guards. 
Lord  SIane*s  Lieutenant-Colonel  was  killed  at  Aughrim. 

On  the  Attainders  of  1691  appear,  of  this  name,  Daniel 
of  Carberry,  County  Cork ;  James,  Phillip  and  John  Connell 
of  Parteen,  and  William  Connell  of  Ennis  in  Ckre;  Maurice 
Connell  styled  of  Athlone,  &c.  At  Chichester  House, 
*  Morish*  Connell  claimed  a  remainder  in  tail  in  Dublin  and 

*  Burke^i  Landed  Oentry^  p.  047. 


LORD  slahe's  infaktbt.  847 

Kerry  lands,  forfeited  hj  Morgan  and  John  Connelly-dis- 
allowed; while  Patrick  Connell  claimed  a  derivative  estate 
for  years,  <&c.,  in  lands  in  the  Barony  of  Bunratty,  the 
forfeiting  proprietor  of  "v^ch  was  Lord  Clare, 

After  the  unsucoessfiil  war  of  1690-^1  many  of  tiiis  Sept 
entered  the  Irish  Brigade  in  the  service  of  Franoe,  and 
were  likewise  commissioned  in  that  of  Austria,  Daniel 
O'Connellf  the  grandson  of  the  before*>mentioned  Colonel 
John  of  Aghgore  and  Derrynane,  bom  in  ITiS,  entered 
into  Lord  Clare's  foreign  Regiment  in  1757,  where  he  early 
distinguished  a  name,  that  was  in  the  subsequent  century 
destined  to  obtain  a  more  world-wide  reputation,  than 
perhaps  any  other  hgs  ever  aoquiredt  by  the  unwearied 
exercise  of  unflinching  but  peacefiil  patriotism,  His  afore- 
said relative,  Daniel,  was  presei^t  at  the  capture  of  Fort 
Mahon  in  1779,  and  was  severely  wounded  at  the  grand 
attack  on  Gibralter  ii^  1782,  His  Segment  having  been 
disbanded  in  France  on  the  Itestoration,  he  passed  over  to 
England,  and  was  there  apik>inted9  in  1798,  Colonel  of  one 
of  the  new  Lish  Brigade,  formed  in  the  British  aarvice; 
which  command  he  retained  until  that  body  was  also  dis- 
solved. On  the  Bestoration  of  the  Bourbon  dynasty  in  1814, 
he,  too,  was  reinstated  in  his  military  rank  of  a  General  and 
Colonel-Commandant  of  the  Begiment  of  Salm-Salm,  and 
named  Grand  Cross  of  the  c^er  of  St.  Louis,  He  died 
in  July,  1833,  at  the  age  of  ninety,  in  his  chateau  near  Blois, 
on  the  Loire,  holding  the  rank  of  General  in  the  French, 
and  the  oldest  Cobnel  in  the  English  service. 


348  KING  JAHES'8  IBI8H  ABMT  LIST. 


CAPTAIN JONES, 

Of  this  name  were  attainted,  in  1642,  Thomas  Jones  of 
Swords  in  the  County  of  Dublin ;  Patrick  '  Joanes*  of  Kells, 
Thomas  and  Robert  of  Slane,  with  Martin  and  Luke  of 
Oristown.  The  outlawries  of  1691  present  Thomas  and 
Patrick  Jones  of  Freinstown  in  Meath,  and  Robert  of  Dublin. 
In  1605  Thomas  Jones,  a  native  of  Lancashire,  succeeded 
to  the  Archbishopric  of  Dublin,  about  which  time  this  family 
was  seised  of  estates  in  Roscommon  and  in  and  about  the 
town  of  Athlone,  which  borough  Oliver  Jones  represented 
in  the  Parliament  of  1639.  In  1633  Lewis  Jones  from 
Merionethshire  was  appointed  Bishop  of  Killaloe.  He  was 
father  of  Dr.  Ambrose  Jones,  Bishop  of  Kildare  in  1667, 
and  of  Henry  Jones  who  suoceeded  to  the  See  of  Meath  in 
1661.  '^  Two  of  Dr.  Henry's  children,  named  Ambrose  and 
Alice,  changed  their  Religion  in  the  time  of  James  the 
Second  and  died  bigotted  Papists,*'  says  Ware  in  his  History 
of  the  Bishops  of  Ireland.  The  Roll  of  Adjudications,  on  the 
claims  of  the  '  1649 '  officers,  includes  the  names  of  Ensign 
James,  Comet  Roger,  Lieutenant  Thomas  and  Quartermaster 
William  Jones.  In  1682  Edward  Jones  was  appointed 
Bishop  of  Cloyne,  from  which  See  he  was  translated  to  that 
of  St.  Asaph  in  1692, 


■   ■■■  I     m 


CAPTAIN CONLY. 

On  the  attainder  Roll  of  1691  stands  the  name  of  Robert, 
son  of  Luke  Conly  of  Drogheda,  merchant,  who,  it  may  be 
presumed,  was  the  officer  here  in  commission. 


LORD  SLANE'S  IKFANTBT.  349 


LIEUTENANT  —  GORMAN. 

The  Christian  name  of  this  Officer  is  not  given  in  the  British 
Museom  Army  List.  The  names  of  those  attainted  in  1696 
were  Patrick  and  another,  described  as  of  Codbiebeigne  in 
the  County  of  Limerick.  The  lattef  appears  to  have  been 
the  officer  commissioned  as  Lieutenant  in  the  Regiment  of 
Major-Gkneral  Boisseleau,  while  another  was  Ensign  in 
Colonel  Owen  Mac  Cartie's. 

The  Sept  of  O'Gorman  or  Mac  Gorman  derives  its  lineage 
from  Heremon,  the  son  of  Milesius,  through  Hugony  the  Great, 
one  of  Lreland^s  most  illustrious  monarchs.  It  is  set  down 
in  the  native  annals,  as  located  in  the  Counties  of  Limerick 
and  Clare*  The  Four  Masters  reCoM  the  death  of  Angus 
0*Gdrman  in  1123.  In  1152  Fman,  the  son  of  Tiorcain 
O'Gorman,  an  Abbot,  assisted  at  the  Council  of  Kells*  In 
1164  Maolkevin  O'Gorman  died  Abbot  of  Fore  at  a  very 
advanced  age,  With  the  character  of  having  been  one  of  the 
most  learned  of  the  Irish.  In  his  time  flourished  Marian 
O'Gorman,  Abbdt  of  Knock,  near  Louth,  and  author  of  a 

Metrical  Martyrology;  and  in   1174  died  O'Gorman, 

Chief  Lecturer  of  Armagh,  the  most  learned  doctor  of 
divinity  and  moral  law,  who,  having  studied  during  twenty 
years  in  France  and  England,  governed  the  schools  of  his 
native  country  for  a  similar  interval.-> — In  1600  Donald 
O'Gonnan  was  Chief  of  the  Septi 


350  KING  JAM£8*S  IBISH  ABMT  LIST. 


ENSIGN HOOLAHAN. 

The  Fom*  Masters  commemorate  the  death  of  Donal 
'  O'Huallaohaon  *  in  1182,  Archbishop  of  Munater  (Cashel); 
aad  the  Sept  is  otherwise  located  in  the  County  of  Ghdwaj. 
On  tlus  list  another  of  the  name  was  Ensign  in  Colonel 
Owen  Mas  Cartie's  In&ntry^ 


£NSI01f  BICHABD  UBIALLi 

This  danle,  now  of  none  occorrenee,  is  yet  to  be  found  on 
Irish  record  from  the  time  of  Edward  the  Third.  In  that 
of  Henry  the  Fifth,  James  *  Uriel*  was  appointed  Chief 
Baron  of  the  Irish  Exchequer. 


EK SIGN  SIMON  DONNliLLY, 

Th£  Fouf  Master  reeord  in  1177  the  death  of  Giolk  Mac 
Liag  O'Dong^e  (Donnelly)^  Chief  of  Ferdroma,  a  territory 
within  the  precincts  of  Donegali  He,  With  many  othef 
Chiefs  of  the  Noith  of  Ilfelandf  fell  in  resisting  the  inyasion 
of  the  chivalrous  but  cruel  John  de  Courcy^  There  is  in 
Tyrone  a  district  which  took  its  name,  BaUy^DonneUy^  from 
this  Sept;  where  died^  about  the  year  1621,  John,  son  of 
Donnell  groome  O'Donnelly,  leaving  Patrick  his  son  and 
heir  then  of  full  age  and  unmarried<    O'Heerin^  in  his  topo^ 


LOBD  slane's  infaktbt.  351 

graphical  work  on  Ireland,  locates  Cliiefs  of  this  family  in 
Tipperary.  In  1641  Daniel  O^Donnelly,  described  as  of 
Pitchfordstown,  County  of  Kildare,  was  the  only  individual 
of  this  name  then  attainted*  In  1687  Terence  Donnelly 
was  Sheriff  of  Tyrone;  and»  in  the  Parliament  of  1689, 
Patrick  Donnelly  of  Dungannon  was  one  of  the  Bepresen- 
tatives  of  the  Borough  of  Dungannon,  as  was  David 
O'Donnelly  one'  of  those  for  that  of  Strabane.  The 
Attainders  of  1691  do  n6t  name  the  above  Officer,  but 
include  fourteen  O'Donnellys  in  the  County  of  Tyrone^  with 
four  in  Armagh,  and  one  in  Dublin. 

Dr.  O'Donovan  has,  in  the  Appendix  to  his  Edition  of  the 
Annals  of  the  Four  Mastersj  an  interesting  genealogical 
notioe  of  this  Septi 


352 


KIHG  JAMES  8  IBI8H  ARMT  UflfT. 


BEGIMENTS  OF 


COLONEL  COBMUCK  O'NEILL's. 


TheColoocL 


—  0'< 
BtBTj  SniytlL 


Janitt  O^NeOL 

ArtfanrMHxilL 

Connodk  0*H«giil. 

Thonuw  Mlfnghtioa. 

Daiiid  HAgertj. 

WmiaiB  Stewarts 

Bom  M^Qnillaii. 

Hony  O'Neill, 
Groud. 

BiTsnO'Neat 

Jobsk  demoitft 

Cod,  80D  of  BrjUf  O'Neal  / 

ArtO'Hagaii. 
Connnek  O'Hin. 
Bobert  Sutler. 
Fnndfl  O'Cahan. 


{ 


0*NeaL 

ComtiM^  M<GflL 

Oihrer  0*Hi45Ui. 

Daniel  Ifakaj. 

Danid  ODoDndL 

Alexander  SCewaiL 

Conniick  M'Qaillan. 

Ha^  llagenms. 
Heni7  0*NenL 


Henrjr  Comtn^* 
Boger  O'Cahan. 

Biyan  O'NeilL 

Con  O^NeOlf  Modertb 

Daniel  0*fiagan. 

Peter  DoUn. 

Chrirtopher  Rondl 

Hngh  O'Griblnn. 

AitO'Hanuie 

NealO^NeOL 

.i-^^Gilmori 

O'NeOlf 

Grenad. 


} 


Bdwaid  U*Coainf. 

John  Gemon. 

Donagfay  IfGanahenan 
Bi7anM<Cann. 

John  0*Hagan. 

AitfaorO^Haia. 

Con.  ODo^iertj. 

BiTanOCahan. 

Biyan  IfOlanna. 

Patrick  O'Sheak. 
Edmund  M'Daonjr. 

OHagan. 

Thomas  DoUn. 
Edmmid  Savage. 
Christopher  Fleming. 


{: 


O^Neale. 

•  GQmor. 

M^Gimtes, 
0*llahon4 


The  Colonel  and  Ltentenant-ColoneL 
«— —  Flenung,  AdfmimL 
.^-Neale,  Chaplam. 


-^ — Xacanallf. 
JameaWakh. 

Jamei  O'CnOj. 
NefflMKSilL 
Connw^  OHagan. 
Brjran  OConnor. 
Ifaorioe  OHagarty. 
Alexander  Stewart* 
Theo. 


} 


Teicnee  M*Conway. 
John  dementi 


} 


} 


Mylea  M<Namea. 

Jamas  O'Ehgan. 
Ifanns  O'Haim. 
John  ODo^berty. 
Dona^y  O'Cahan. 

Daihy  OX}ahan. 

ConnnckMOan* 
ArtO'NeQL 

0*Hagan. 

*—  Dobin. 
Hen.  Saragej 

ShieL 

Patrick  OHaiane. 
Hac  Crowley. 
-MagilL 


H'Donnen,  Mqfor* 
Crowley,  QKoriermatitr* 
Dobin,  CAww^^eon. 


o'neiWs  infant»t.  353 


COLONEL  COBMUCK  O'NEILL. 

This  family,  of  natiye  Bojaltj,  is  fully  noticed  post,  at  the 
Regiment  of  Henry  Gordon  O'Neill,  who  was  then  the  lineal 
representative  of  the  Sept.  Colonel  Connuck  resided  at 
Bronghshane  in  Antrim,  was  Sheriff  of  that  County  in  1687, 
one  of  its  Bepresentatives  in  the  Parliament  of  1689,  and 
was  consequently  outlawed  in  1691.  At  the  commencement 
of  this  campaign  a  detachment  of  his  Be^ment  was  despatched 
with  the  Earl  of  Antrim's,  to  strengthen  the  garrison  of 
Carrickfergus,  which  was,  however,  at  the  close  of  the  year 
1688,  obliged  to  surrender  on  an  honourable  capitulation, 
the  terms  of  which  were  thus  communicated  by  Mr.  Thomas 
Knox,  in  a  letter  of  the  22nd  February,  1688,  to  Sir  Bobert 
Colville,  at  his  house  near  Belfast. 

*  That  Connuck  O'Neill's  Begiment  be  disbanded,  and,  on 
or  before  Monday  next,  leave  the  garrison,  to  vepair  to  their 
several  habitations,  with  free  passport,  and  to  be  protected 
from  all  injuries  from  the  Protestants,  by  such  as  are  con- 
cerned in  the  preservation  of  the  peace. 

*  That  the  Earl  of  Antrim's  Begiment  continue  in  the 
Castle,  and  have  liberty  to  provide  themselves  with  necessary 
proTiflions,  and  8o  be  euppUed  from  time  to  time. 

*  That  th^  town  be  1^  to  the  townspeople  and  to  keep 
their  own  guards. 

'  That  all  such  goods  or  provisions,  as  were  taken  by  force 
yesterday,  be  restored  or  their  value  to  the  owners. 

'  That  we  continue  in  perfect  peace  each  with  the  other, 
and  that  no  disturbance  be  given  on  either  side,  unless  forces 
from  other  parts  enter  into  Ulster,  bearing  contrary  to  the 

YOI*.  II.  2  A 


354  KIKO  JAXES'S  nUBH  ASICT  IJ8T. 

a00i]ianoe  given  hj  my  Lord  Monntjoy  who  ww  distmsted 
by  the  Government.* 

Con  O'Neill^  modera^  an  oflBoer  in  this  B^iment,  manied 
Boee,  the  only  daughter  of  the  gallant  Sir  NdU  O'Ndll^  who 
commanded  the  Begiment  of  Dragoons  ao  djstingiiiahed  at 
the  Boyne- 


CAPTAIN  AETHUB  WQTLL, 

This  officer  is  deeoibed  in  his  attainder  of  1691  as  of  Carry- 
roan,  County  of  Antrim.  At  the  Court  of  Claims  in  1700, 
Hugh  Col ville  preferred  a  petition  for  the  revernon  of  a  chattel 
interest,  which  this  Arthur  held  in  that  County,  and  the 
claim  was  allowed.  Bory  Magill  of  Lame  and  Bryan  Magill 
also  forfeited  lands  in  Antrim. — ^-*The  adjudications  on  the 
claims  of  the  ^  1649'  officers,  exhibit  the  names  of  Captains 
Hugh,  James,  and  Itobert  M^Gill, 


CAPTAINS  COBMUCK,  ABT,  AND  DANIEL 

O'HAGAN. 

This  an<aent  Sept  were  Chiefs  of  Tullaghoge,  witiiin  the 
present  Barony  of  Dungannon,  County  of  Tyrone.  They 
were  amongst  those  hereditary  Tanists  who  assisted  at  the 
inauguration  of  the  O'Neills,  successive  Princes  of  that 
country ;  and  Sir  Nicholas  Malby,  in  a  Beport  on  the  state 
of  Ireland  which  he  made  to  Queen  Elizabeth  in  1579, 
describes  this  O'Hagan  as  one  of  the  principal  men  of  note 


o'nbill'8  infantbt,  355 

in  that  country.  True  to  the  0*KeUl  they  attended  him 
subsequently  in  the  Munster  'vrar,  and  "Pete  engaged  at  the 
battle  of  Kiiwale.  The  Act  of  1612  for  the  attainder  of 
this  great  Chief  accordingly  included,  in  the  visitation  of  its 
penalties,  John  Opanty  O'Hagan,  late  of  Dungannon,  with 
Henry  wd  Tejgue  Q'Hagan  of  the  same  plaoe.  The  above 
officers  are  described  in  the  Inquisition  taken  on  their 
attainder,  Art  as  of  Dungannon,  and  Cormuck  and  Daniel  of 
the  County  of  Londonderry,  Five  qthers  of  this  Sept  were 
then  likewise  outlawed  in  the  latter  County.  «-t —  Hagan  was 
one  of  the  officers  a  la  suitte  in  Galmoy's  Regiment  of  Horse, 
while  another  of  this  pame  was  a  Lieutenant  in  Colonel  Jphi) 
Hamilton's  Infimtry,  and  a  third  was  Surgeon  in  Colonel 
Edward  Butler's, 


.  CAPTAIN  THOMAS  McNAUGHTON, 

This  officer  is  described  on  the  Inquisition  for  his  attainder 
83  ^  of  Ejltimurry,  County  of  Antrim,*  and  appears  to  have 
descended  from  a  Scotch  settler  on  the  flantationt 


•^'r  ' 


CAPTAIN  DANIEL  HAGARTY, 

The  CVHagartys  were  another  Ulster  Bept  sub-feudatoyy  to 
the  O'Neill,  under  whose  leadership  Maolmura  O'Hagarty 
fought  and  fell  at  the  battle  of  Kinsale.  The  attainders  of 
1691  have  but  two  of  the  name,  both  of  this  Province ;  James 
Hagarty  of  Pennybum-Mill,  County  of  Londonderry,  and 


856  KINa  JAHES'S  IRISH  ABMT  LIST. 

William  Hagarty  of  Tyrehugh,  Cotmty  of  Donegal,  clerk; 
and  another  clergyman  of  this  name  was  Chaplain  to  Lord 
Clancarty's  Begiment  of  Infkntry.-r- — A  Lieutenant-Colonel 
Hagarty  in  LaUy's  Regiment  was  wounded  in  1747»  at  the 
battle  of  Lauffield,  having  so  distinguished  himself  as  to  merit 
a  pension  of  1,200  &ancs  thei^ceforth  from  the  King  of 
France,* 


CAPTAIN  WILLIAM  STEWART, 

The  Inquisition,  taken  on  the  attainder  of  this  Officer, 
describes  him  a«  of  Dundermod,  County  pf  Antrim;  the 
only  other  then  attainted  individual  of  the  name  being  George 
'  Stuart'  of  Lisnadevin,  in  the  saine  Coimty.  The  names  of 
Lieutenant^Colonel  George,  M^or  Alexander,  and  Captains 
Andrew,  Archibold,  James,  Samuel  and  Thomas  Stewart, 
with  Lieutenants  Anthony  and  John,  Captain  William  and 
Comet  Robert  Stuart,  appear  op  the  Adjudications'  Boll  of 
the  '  1649'  Officers, 


CAPTAIN  ROSS  McQUILLAN 

The  Mc  Quillans  were  Lords  of  the  Territory  of  the  Routes 
in  the  County  of  Antrim,  holding  their  chief  residence  in 
the  fine  old  sea-girt  Castle  of  Dimluce.  They  are  considered 
to  have  been  themselves  invaders  from  Wales  on  earlier 


*  O'Cimw'i  MiUL  Mem,^  p.  404. 


o'neill's  infantby.  357 

inhabitants  of  the  North,  and  to  have  originally  styled  them- 
selves Mac-Llewellyn,  contractice  Mac  Quillan.  Within  that 
County,  not  far  from  the  Ravel-water,  are  the  ruins  of  another 
castle  at  Clough,  traditicfnally  believed  to  have  been  in  very 
remote  times  also  the  seat  of  the  Mc  Quillan,  until  their 
dispossession  by  the  Mc  Donnells,  after  a  great  battle  fought 
between  them  near  the  mountain  of  Ch*a.  This  castle  stood 
upon  a  high  insulated  basaltic  rock  about  twenty  feet  above 
the  level  of  the  surrounding  ground,  and  Was  encompassed 
by  a  foss.  According  to  the  same  local  traditions,  it  was 
burnt  in  1641,  with  a  hostility  that  left  standing  only  a 
massive  gateway,  about  twenty  feet  high  and  fourteen  wide, 
with  its  mortar  work  five  feet  in  thickness  and  powerfully 
cemented ;  the  ruin  is  surroimded  on  every  side  by  forts. 

When  Edward  Bruce,  in  1315  invading  Ireland,  encamped 
before  the  Castle  df  Carrickfergus,  ten   or  twelve  of  the 
petty  Princes  of  the  North  came  in  to  him  and  proflered 
their  adherence;  amongst  whom  was  the  Mc  Quillan.     In 
1358,  say  the  Four  Masters,  died  Senechan   Mc   Quillan, 
who,    in    the    existing    native   government,    ranked    High 
Constable  of  Ulster ;  and  the  death  of  Slevin  Mc  Quillan  in 
ten  years  after  is  commemorated  by  these  historians  with  the 
same  title,  as  hereditary.      Succeeding  annals  are  filled  with 
narratives    of  active    and    melancholy    ffeuds    between    the 
O'Neils,   O'Donnells,  and  O'Cahanes  on  the  one  side,  and 
the   Mc  Quillans  on  the    other.      In    1449  ^Mc  Quillan 
defeated  Murtogh  Roe  O'Neill  in  an  engagement,  in  which 
the  son  of  Maolmure  Mac  Sweeny,  and  Aongus,  the  son  of         j  v  ^  ^\ 
Mac  Donnell  of  Scotland,  with  many  others,  were  slain.'     On    p*  ^    '      '  v 
the  13th*  July,  1563,  was  fought  the  battle  of  Ora,  before  ^  fnf\  h^ 
alluded  to,  between  the  Mc  Donnells,  headed  by  Sorle-buy,    A-  ?^3./-  '/^ 
and  the  Mc  Quillans,  headed  by  Conway  Mc  Quillan,  whose 


358  KINO  JAMES'S  uasa  abmt  list. 

tomb  10  still  pointed  out  by  the  people  at  Anls^,  in  the 
parish  of  Bamoan. 

An  interesting  existing  manuscript,  of  modem  date  (1823)| 
but  compiled  from  ancient  papers  of  authority,  commences 
a  history  of  this  fiunily  from  Edward  M'QuiUan,  who  was 
bom  in  1503,  and  ranked  as  'Prince  of  Dakriada  for  seventy 
years,  during  five  ragns  of  English  Soverdgns.'  On  the 
Plantation  of  Ulster,  his  estates  were  sdsed  by  the  Crown. 
"  The  King,"  says  the  manuscript,  "  as  sensible  of  the 
injustice  done  to  the  Mc  Quillan  in  depriving  him  of  his 
estate^  offered  him  the  lands  of  the  O'Doherty,  Prince  of 
Inishowen,  in  lieu  of  them  ;  but  Mc  Quillan  refused  to 
accept  thereof,  indignantly  saying  he  would  not  take  lands 
belonging  to  another  man;  that,  as  he  was  not  attiunted, 
he  still  expected  to  get  his  own,  and  that  all  the  claim 
Mc  Donnell  had  to  the  lands  was  his  being  married  to 
Mc  Quillan's  daughter."  Edward  did  not  outlire  the  Plan- 
tation; his  decease  occurred  at  the  very  advanced  age  of 

102 He  was  descended  from  Feidlim  Fi<Hm 

Mac  Quillan,  who  deduced  his  lineage  from  Fiach  Mac 
Quillan,  a  son  of  Niall  of  the  Nine  Hostages.  .  .  .  '*  I 
believe,"  adds  the  compiler  of  the  document  (Edward  Mc 
Quillan,  bom  in  1760),  ''  that  my  great^gtandiGither  Was  the 
first  of  the  family  who  conformed  to  the  established  religion, 
with  his  two  youngest  sons;  Richard,  my  grandfiither^  and 
his  youngest  brother,  Charles;  but  his  eldest  daughter, 
Mary,  was  so  steadfast  in  the  Bomish  religion,  that  she  went 
to  Spain  before  the  battle  of  the  Boyne,  and  became  there 
Maid  of  Honour  to  the  Queen,  an  office  which  she  filled  to 
the  day  of  her  death,  when  she  left  a  fortune,  to  which  I 
am  heir,  if  it  cotdd  be  got  Her  two  eldest  brothers  were 
strict  Catholics  also;  (one,  it  may  be  presumed,  the  above 


o'n£ill*s  infantry.  359 

Captain  Ross),  and  followed  the  fortunes  of  King  James  the 
Second,  the  grandson  of  him  who  deprived  the  family  of 
their  principalitj.    They  were  in  Limerick  at  the  time  of 
the  siege,  and  intending  to  follow  the  King  to  France,  when, 
in  the  very  act  of  taking  leaye  of  their  brother  officers, 
one  of  them  was  killed  by  a  cannon  ball.     The  other  went 
to  France,  and  served  with  distinction  in  the  Irish  Brigade, 
as  did  also  his  son  Lewis  Mc  Quillan,  who  died  at  Versailles 
some  time  previous  to  the  year  1766,  leaving  a  large  pro- 
perty to  the  nearest  heir  of  the  name  of  Mc  Quillan  and 
House  of  Dunluce.      This  my  &ther  went  to  France  to 
seek;  when  he  went  to  the  Jesuits'  College  at  Versailles, 
there  to  prefer  his  claim  (they  being  the  trustees  to  the 
property  of  aU  officers  of  the  Lish    Brigade  in   France); 
but  the  kingdom  was  then  in  a  ferment  on  account  of  the 
expulsion  of  these  Jesuits ;    he  was  arrested,  and  all  his 
papers  taken  ^m  him,  amongst  which  was  a  pedigree  of  the 
Mac  Quillans,  as  long  as  the  third  chapter  of  Luke.     .     .     . 
The  Mc  Donnells,  who  got  a  great  part  of  our  lands,  wish 
it  to  be  believed  that  the  Mc  Quillan  family  is  extinct, 
and  really  they  were  nearly  extinguished  by  the  Mc  Donnells, 
as  shown  in  these  Memoirs;  but  they  are  not  yet  extinct, 
for  there  are  several  of  them  living  in  L*eland,  and  when 
I  last  heard  fix>m  America,  my  brother  had  two  sons  and 
one  grandson  living  ;  and  I  have  also  two  sons  living  and 
two  daughters,  and  all  my  children   comfortably   settled." 
The  Memoir  concludes  with  the  attestation,  '^  As  my  fiunily 
was  never  attainted,  my  blood  is  legally  pure,  and  I  am 
the   legitimate   lineal    hereditary   (in   abeyance)   Prince  of 
Dalariada;    though    I    now    subscribe   myself  only   plain 
Edward  Mac  Quillan,  this  11th  of  12th  Mo.  1823,  being 
the  conqpletion  of  my  sixty-third  year.''    The  armorials  of 


360  KINO  JTAMES'S  1BI8H  ABHT  LI8T. 

the  fiunilj  are  thus  given  in  thia  Mc  QuiUan  MS.  "  Abms, 
a  lion  rampant,  gules;  Crest  on  a  wreath  proper  ^geeU 
greena^  (a  refulgent  sun)  or;  StTPPOBTESS,  dexter ^  Justice 
with  sword  and  scales;  sinister j  Hope,  leaning  on  an  anchor; 
Motto  in  Irish,  'Bus  ria  astrinor ;'  in  English j  'Death  before 
dishonour.**' — ^"  After  their  conversion  to  Christianity," 
adds  Edward  Mc  Qulllan,  ''the  crest  was  changed  to  a 
demi-lion;  and  the  Irish  motto  to  the  Latin,  'Malo  mori 
quam  fcedaii;'  and  in  the  jear  1605  the  supporters  were 
resigned  for  the  present^  till  the  King  and  the  Parliament  of 
the  British  Empire  shall  r^-instate  me  in  the  honours  and 
estates  of  my  ancestors."  The  son  of  that  Edward,  Joseph 
Mc  QuiUan,  is  now  living  in  the  County  of  Wexford. 

Previous  patents  of  James  the  First  record  pardons  passed 
to  seVeral  members  of  this  Sept;  and,  yet  more,  a  grant  in 
1608  to  Bory  oge  Mc  Quillan  of  the  territory  of  Clinagh- 
artie  in  LoWer  Clandeboy,  County  of  Antrim,  comprising 
twenty-one  extenave  townlands,  teith  all  hereditaments, 
advowsons,  &c.,  of  churched,  formerly  belonghig  to  any 
religious  houses  therein;  the  Mc  Quillan  being  bound  to 
find  and  maintain  every  year,  for  the  space  of  forty  days, 
two  able  horsemen  and  six  footmen  to  serve  the  King, 
Lord  Deputy,  or  Governor  of  Carrickfergus,  whenever 
required  within  the  Province  of  Ulster,  and  to  answer  all 
ri^gs  out  and  general  hostings.  In  1619,  however,  a  royal 
letter  Was  issued  for  a  surrender  of  this  territory  from  the 
patentee,  and  in  tilith  the  family  were  so  utterly  despoiled, 
that  the  name  does  not  appear  on  the  Outlawries  either  of 
1641  or  1691,  with  the  exception  of  a  James  Mc  Quillan, 
who  forfeited  on  the  latter  occasion,  when  Hugh  Colvllle 
claimed  at  Chichester  House  a  chattel  remainder  in  the 
lands  of  Atte&thaw,  County  of  Antrim,  as  forfeited  by  him. 


OKEILLS   INFANTRY.  361 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  CLEMENTS. 

Nothing  worthy  of  note  has  been  ascertained  of  this 
officer  or  his  fiimily;   the   name  is   however  of  record  in 

Ireland,  from  the  time  of  Edward  the  Third. In  1667 

Edward  Clements  passed  a  conflrmatoty  patent  for  1,242 
acres  in  Cork,  as  did  Daniel  Clements  for  1,875  in  Cavan, 
and  the  name  of  Lieutenant  Francis  Clements  appears  on 
the  Adjudications  for  the  ^  1649 '  Officers,  while  Sir  Bernard 
Burke  in  his  Landed  Gentry  writes  of  a  Robert  Clements, 
who  had  been  attainted  previous  to  King  William's  time,  but 
on  his  accession  became  one  of  the  Bepresentatives  of  Car- 
rickfergus,  was  preferred  to  considerable  estates  in  Down 
and  Cavan,  and  was  further  appointed  Deputy  Vice  Trea- 
surer of  Ireland* 


CAPTAINS  FRANCIS  ANt)  ROOEft  0*CAHANE. 

This  Sept  claims  descent  from  Eoghan^  son  of  Niall  of 
the  Nine  Hostages,  that  King  of  Iceland  who  brought  St 
Patrick  a  captive  from  France  to  its  shores.  They  consti- 
tuted one  of  the  most  powerful  &milies  of  ancient  Dalariada 
in  Ulster,  from  whence  passed  out  the  emigrants  who 
colonised  Scotland,  conquered  the  Picts,  and  established  a 
Kingdom  there,  which,  in  memory  of  their  old  home,  was 
named  Dalriada.  From  them  descended  the  line  of  Scottish 
Kings — the  Stuarts,  for  whose  last  link  of  British  Royalty 
the  present  Army  List  was  drawn  up.  In  the  oldest  Annals 
of  Ireland,  Dalriada  and  the  O'Cahanes  are  associated  with 


362  KING  JAM£8*8  IBISH  ABMY  LIST. 

events  of  chivalrous  and  romantic  interest.  At  Dunse- 
verick,  on  the  northern  coast  of  Antrim,  upon  a  rock  over 
the  sea,  amidst  the  basaltic  wonders  of  the  Giants^  Causeway, 
was  erected  their  casde;  its  imposing  ruins  still  remain. 

On  the  earliest  adoption  of  siunames  in  Ireland,  Eogan 
0*Cahan  is  reooided  an  Abbot  in  the  County  of  Galway, 
A.D.  980.  In  1145  (£ed  Sluaghdeach  aCahane,  'Bishop 
of  the  people  of  Leighlin.'  In  1192  a  porch  of  the  black 
church  of  St.  Columbkill  was  built  by  O'Cahane  of  the 
Crieve,  {i^e^  the  Barony  of  Coleraine),  soon  after  which  this 
powerful  Sept  possessed  themselves  of  the  greater  part  of 
the  County  Deny,  thence  called  the  O'Cahane^s  Country. 
In  1244  Hemy  the  Tlnrd  requested  the  attendance  and 
assistance  of  the  O'Cahane  in  his  prcgected  war.  In  1260  a 
battle  was  fought  near  Downpatrick,  by  Bryan  O'Neill  and 
Hugh  O'Connor  against  the  English  of  the  North  of  Ireland, 
commanded  by  Stephen  Lofngespci  t.^.  'Lomgsword/  Earl  of 
Salisbury^  and  the  Four  Masters,  giving  a  report  of  those 
slain  on  the  Irish  side,  name  Bryan  O'Neill,  Donal  O  'Caine,' 
Dermod  Mac  Loughlin,  Kane  O'Heimery^  Donslevy  Mac 
Can,  Conor  O'Duvdiorma  and  his  son;  AulafT  O'Gormleyf 
Cumla  O'Hanlon,  Nial  O'Hanlon,  Manus  O'Cahan,  Hugh 
O'Cahan,  with  twelve  other  Chiefs  of  their  Sept,  besides 
many  of  the  Chiefs  of  Connaught  there  also  enumerated. 

In  1314  King  Edward  directed  a  special  letter  missive 
to  Dermod  O'Cahane,  *  Dud  Hibemorum  de  Femetreeve^  for 
military  service  in  Scotland.  Associated  with  the  O'Neill^ 
the  McGenis,  O'Hanlon,  McMahon,  Maguire,  and  other 
Chiefe  of  Ulster,  under  the  command  of  Bichard  de  Burgo^ 
Earl  of  Ulster,*  the  OK]!ahane  embarked  from  Drogheda  for 

*  EoL  SeoL  7,  Edw.  %  in  Tur.  L. 


O  NEILL  8   INFANTRY.  363 

Scotland.  In  1338  David  McOgby  0'*Kyne'  sued  out  a 
patent  of  pardon  and  protection.  This  was  the  first  recorded 
conyersion  of  the  name  towards  that  bj  which  it  is  frequently 

known  Kyan.     Before   this  time,   a   monastery   was 

founded  by  the  O'Cahan  at  Dungiven,  which  became  thence- 
forth the  burial  place  of  the  family,  and  still  exhibits 
monuments  of  sculptured  ornament  commemorative  of  them. 
One  is  particularly  alluded  to  in  a  note  of  Dr.  0*Donovan 
to  the  Four  Masters,  ad  ann.  1385.  About  the  middle  of 
the  fourteenth  century,  Angus  ^oge^  (the  younger),  Lord  of 
the  Isles,  married  the  daughter  of  the  '  O'Cahane/*  In  1376 
'  Cumsighe  O'Cahan,  Lord  of  Oireacht-O'Cahane,  was  taken 
prisoner  by  the  English  of  the  port  of  Coleraine^  and  sent 
in  fetters  to  Carrickfergus.'  In  1432  the  O^Cahan,  t.e. 
Bodeiic  AinsheacUcair,  was  treacherously  slain  by  Mac 
Quillan,  namely  Shemus  Concarragh  ;  Con,  son  of  Hugh 
buidh  O'Neill,  niustered  his  forces,  and  Geoffirey,  brother 
of  said  Roderick  O'Cahan,  having  proceeded  to  the  Routes 
(in  Antrim),  to  take  revenge  on  said  Mac  Quillan,  a  battle 
ensued  in  which  Geoffrey  was  slain;  on  the  following  day 
Con  O'Neill  gave  the  Mac  Quillans  a  complete  overthrow. 

In  1537  Cornelius  O'Cahane  was  Bishop  of  Raphoe.' 

Amongst  the  State  papers,  temp.  Henry  the  Eighth,  is  a 
Report  of  1542,  from  the  Lord  Deputy  of  Ireland  and  his 
Council  to  the  Ejbg,  in  which  it  is  written,  '*  Now,  as  to 
the  forther  occurrences  of  this  your  realm,  for  as  much  as 
one  McQuillan,  which  is  an  Englishman  (they  claim  to  be 
of  Welsh  descent),  and  now  submitted  to  your  Majesty's 
obedience,  is  invaded  by  one  called  O'Cahan,  by  the  aid  as 
it  is  supposed  of  O'Donnell  his  galloglas,  we  have  therefore 

•  ArdhdaWs  Lodgers  Peerage^  v.  7,  p.  111. 


364  KINO  JAKE8*8  IBISH  ABMY  LIST. 

sent  John  Travers,  with  a  convenient  number  of  horsemen 
and  footmen,  to  the  aid  of  the  same  McQuillan,  as  well  for 
that  the  same  O^Cahane,  which  never  yet  showed  any 
obedience  to  your  Majesty,  should  not  destroy  the  said 
McQuillan,  as  also  to  give  courage  to  others  that  have 
in  like  sort  submitted  themselves  to  your  obedience  as 
McQuillan  has  done,  shall  in  like  case  be  aided  if  they 
persist  in  their  due  allegiance.''*  At  the  dose  of  this  year, 
Manus  O'Cahane,  then  the  Chief,  renewed  his  submission 
to  the  King,  and  signed  an  indenture  of  peace,  a  copy  of 
which  is  preserved  in  the  Lambeth  MSS.f 

In  1558  George  DoWdall,  the  fitst  Archbishop  of  Armagh 
after  the  Reformation,  urged  in  a  letter  to  the  Viceroy,  the 
policy  of  expelling  the  H^bridcjm  Scots  from  Ulster,  by 
procuring  their  Irish  neighbours,  O'Neill,  O'Dondell,  O'Ca- 
hane,  and  others,  to  unite  against  them.  He  further  relied 
that  the  power  of  th^  Sdots  in  Ireland  proceeded  principally 
from  the  Irish  Chiefs  engaging  them  to  their  auxiliaries  in 
their  private  quarrels ;  a  practice  to  the  suppression  of  which 
the  Primate  earnestly  directed  the  attention  of  the  Viceroy^ 
Accordingly,  in  1567,  Sir  Henry  Sydney  reported  to  the 
Queen,  "  All  Tyrconnel,  together  with  O'Cahane^s  country 
under  the  govemlnent  of  O'Cahane,  is  in  great  obedience  to 
your  Majesty,  and  daily  doth  annoyance  to  the  rebels."  At 
the  Irish  Conciliation  Parliament,  sought  to  be  assembled 
in  Dublin  by  Sir  John  Perrot,  in  1585,  "  there  came  to  it 
(say  the  Four  Masters),  O'Cahane,  Loi*d  of  Oireacht-O'Cahan, 
namely  Roderick,  the  son  of  Manus,  son  of  Donough  the 
hospitable,  son  of  John,  son  of  Accency."    It  was  in  his  time, 

♦  State  Papersy  temp.  Henry  Vllt.^  v.  3,  p.  399.         t  Idem,  p.  407-8. 

%  Gregory's  Hdfrides^  p.  198. 


O'NEILL'S  INFANTRY.  365 

and,  as  appears,  vdtb  his  aid,  that  the  McConnell,  or 
McDonnell  of  the  Isles,  settled  in  Antrim.  The  O'Cahanes, 
however,  sedulously  adhered  to  the  O'Neill  as  their  Lord 
paramount,  and  fell  with  his  fortunes,  being  expressly  by 
name  included  in  that  act  for  his  attainder,  by  which  all 
Ulster  was  declared  confiscated  to  the  Crown,  In  the 
Egerton  Papers^  recently  published  by  the  Camden  Society, 
is  an  interestipg  report  from  Sir  John  Davis  to  the  Lord 
Chancellor,  dated  in  1607,  wherein  be  writes,  "  The  Earl  of 
Tyrone  is  sent  for  into  Englemd,  to  receive  order  in  the 
cause  between  him  and  O'Cahane,  or  rather  between  him 
and  the  King'3  Majesty,  tpupbing  tlie  title  of  O'Cahane's 
country ;  and  he  is  directed  by  the  King's  letters  to  attend 
at  Court  about  the  beginning  of  Michaelmas  term,*  It  may 
be  here  added,  that,  at  the  time  when  Clare  was  planted  out 
in  a  County,  Charles  Cahaue  was  repprt^d  sais^d  of  a  Castle 
at  Iniskathyn,  as  was  James  Cah^e  of  another  at  Ballykettle 
therein. 

In  1615,  on  an  allege^  conspiracy  ^^to  seize  and  destroy 
Derry  and  the  other  principal  tpwns  of  the  Plantation,"  a  few 
of  the  chief  Irish  gentlemen  of  the  North  were  apprehended, 
tried«  and  six  of  them  found  guilty  apd  executed;  one  of 
these,  it  appears,  was  Rory  O'Cahane,  whose  estate  was 
thereupon  granted  away  by  the  Commissioners  of  the  Planta- 
tion, as  fi[)rfeited.t  By  this  confiscation  and  the  numerous 
outlawries  of  1641,  the  name  was  considerably  uprooted  from 
Derry,  and  expulsed  to  foreign  countries.  An  Exact  and 
Perfect  Relation  of  a  Victorie  gained  by  Philip  the  IV.  of 
Spain  over  Louis  the  XIIL  of  France,  says,  **  The  town  of 
Fontaiabia  being  beleagured  by  the  French,  both  by  sea  and 

•  Camden  Papers,  v.  12,  p-  414.      f  Ordnance  Survey  of  Derry,  pp.  40-41. 


9K  %t%G  fAMEAS  mSH  AKMT  LUT 


kadf  and  the  gamMo  ledoeed  to  gresrt  f  ■tifiti^  Ae 
Akalde  ieot  d»patelMs  to  the  Kiag  and  the 
Ca9teIkitoic£ritspeedT«ieeoiir.  Thebttereeit  AreeSpnuh 
Czptahm  md  Ibor  Irish,  which  Iridi  woe  Damd  OCahaa^ 
THtA  ^mj,  Ofirer  Fitzgenld,  sod  Tcrenee  aGaU^her.** 

The  Daeheif  of  BuckhighanB  hsrii^,  after  her  fint  widow- 
hood, aamed  the  Eari  of  Antrim,  took  i^  her  wiiidfnrg  in 
that  Coontj,  and  there  faiaed  a  force  of  1,000  men  a  aid  of 
the  Mooarofaj.  Loid  Wentworth,  who  waa  at  the  time  Lord 
Deputy f  Arected  her  Gtaoe  to  hare  these  lecruiia  marched  faj 
the  nmte  of  Newtowii*Iimavadj,  in  paan^  dnoi^  wfaidi 
▼iUage  the  waa  induced  to  rieit  the  wife  of  OX^ahane,  whoee 
caatk  had  been  dfrnoKahed  and  hinwdf  baniBhed.  '*  In  the 
midit  cf  a  half  ndned  edifioe  waa  kindled  a  fire  of  teancfaes, 
and  the  window  oaaemeota  were  staffed  with  ttnw,  to  keep 

off  the  rigoor  of  the  season. ^Thete  kidged  the  wife  of 

OCahane.^ 

Cokmel  ^  O^Kyan,*  mentioned  in  the  wars  of  Montrose,  is 
fay  some  oonrid^ed  to  have  been  in  his  day  the  head  of  the 
0*Cahanes.  Dr.  Browne^  in  his  Higtary  of  the  Highland 
Clan$^  affords  many  interesting  details  of  this  Irish  hero,  and 
of  die  oonfidenoe  with  whioh  the  gaUant  Scot  relied  upon  his 
bravery  and  sldll.  At  the  battle  of  Inverloohy,  fought 
between  Montrose  and  the  forces  of  Argyle,  *  Cokmel  O'Kean 
oommaoded  the  left  wing  of  the  army  of  the  former,  which 
oonristed  of  a  Begiment  of  Irish,  while  a  detachment  of  Irish 
was  placed  behind  the  main  body  as  a  reserve,  under  the 
command  of  Cobnel  James  M^Domdd,  alias  0*NalL'  This 
left  wing  was  the  first  to  commence  the  battle  of  that  day  by 
eharging  the  enemy's  right,  with  an  energy  that  *ArgyIe*8 

*  QrahomCi  Derriana^  p.  46. 


O'Neill's  ikfantbt*  867 

force,  unable  to  resist,  tamed  about  and  fled,  which  ciroum- 
etance  had  such  a  discouraging  effect  on  the  remainder  of 
Argyle's  troops  that,  after  discharging  their  muskets,  the 
whole  of  them,  including  their  reserve,  took  to  their  heels  and 
the  route  became  general,**  After  Montrose's  defeat,  bow- 
ever,  at  Pbiliphaugb,  '  the  Committee  of  Estates  of  Scotland 
concocted  those  measures  of  revenge  against  the  unhappy 
Royalists  who  had  fallen  into  their  hapds,  which  they  after- 
wards carried  ipto  execution,  The  first  who  suffered  were 
Colonel  '  O'Kean'  .and  Major  Laughlane,  another  brave  Irish 
officer.  Both  those  were  hapged  without  trial  op  the  Castle 
Hill  of  Edinburgh.  Perhaps  the  cireumstonee  of  being 
Irishmen  appeared  a  sufficient  reason  in  the  eye  of  their 
murderers  for  despatching  them  so  summarily,  but  they  were, 
nevertheless,  the  subjects  of  the  E[ing,  and  as  fully  ^ititled  to 
all  the  privileges  of  war  as  the  other  prisoners. 't 

Another  officer,  styled  Manus  Boe  O'Cabaoe,  was,  by 
Cromwell's  Act  of  1652,  excepted  from  pardon  for  life  and 
estate.  In  ten  years  aft«r,  Nicholas  '  Cahane*  of  this  femily 
was  called  upon  his  knees  before  the  Irish  House  of  Com- 
mons, and  committed  to  prison,  for  allied  disrespect  "  to  the 
best  of  Kings,  on  whose  head  God  by  his  miraculous  provi* 
dence  liad  pheed  a  crown  of  puie  gold,  which  all  the  machina- 
tions of  such  as  he«  would  never  be  able  to  remove**'! 
According  to  Lodge  (Peerage^  vol.  3.,  p,  232)  John«  the 
third  Lord  Kingston,  who  had  been  an  adherent  of  James  the 
Second,  intermarried,  in  1683|  with  '  Margaret,  daughter  of 
Florence  O'Cahan,  whose  ancestors  ruled  Iraghli-Cahan,  until 
the  escheats  of  James  tiie  First/ 

*  Brwmiz  Highland  CZoiu,  p.  S63.  f  l^  P*  420, 

X  Comm^  Jaum^  voL  2,  pp.  604p-d. 


368  Knro  jaxss's  isibh  abut  ubt. 

In  tlie  Aimy  List  given  in  Berwick's  Bawdan  Papers 
(p.  360),  a  Begiment  of  Infimtij  in  this  cunpnign  is  stilted  to 
fasve  been  coounsnded  by  sn  O'Csbuie,  and  O'Conor  in  his 
MUUary  Memoirs  says  0*Cahane  did  nise  such  a  fbtce. 
Thiee  other  0*Cahaoes,  it  wiQ  be  observed,  held  cmnmissions 
in  this  Be^menty  while  John  O'Cshane  was  an  Ensign  in  the 
Earl  of  Antrim's  Infiuitry,  and  Owen  ^  Cahane*  was  a  Uente- 
nant  in  Lord  Clare's  Dngoons. 

The  Attainders  of  1691  enumerate,  with  Ci^itsin  Fnmds, 
described  as  of  Pennybom-Mill,  Coonty  of  Deny,  and 
Ci^rtain  Roger  *•  Kdgh'  O'Cahane,  of  Connatdle,  County  of 
Tyrone,  twelve  others  of  the  Sept,  viz. : — ^Walter  of  BaUy- 
clogh,  Edward  of  Pallyvanagh,  and  James  of  Ballyrogangh, 
in  Antrim;  Bryan  of  Pennybum-Mill,  derk,  Shane  Cornack 
*Mac  Cahane'  of  Newtown-Stewart,  Daniel  of  Sweetra, 
Daniel  and  Bory  of  Pennybmm-Mill,  Edward  of  Donsevenck, 
with  Morris,  Dermot  and  Donagh  of  BaUynasse,  in  Derry. 
After  the  capitulation  of  Limerick,  Lord  Iveagh  brought 
over  a  body  of  the  expatriated  soldiers  to  France,  who  were 
sent  thenoe,  as  before  mentioned,  under  the  command  of 
Colonel  McDonnell  for  the  service  of  the  Emperor  of  Austria 
in  Hungary.  He  employed  them  against  the  Turks,  by 
whom  they  were  so  severely  handled,  that  the  remnant  was 
drafted  into  other  corps  of  the  Imperial  army,*  Of  these 
suffering  Irish  refugees  were  two  O'Cahanes,  whose  petitions 
to  King  William,  "  that  they,  being  sick,  might  safely  repair 
to  Ireland,  their  natural  soil,**  have  been  noted  as  in  the 
Southwell  Manuscripts. 

An  entry  in  the  Irish  Commons*  Journal  of  1698  states, 
that '  the  House  being  acquainted  that  one  Manus  O'Cahan, 

*  (yCaOaghan'M  Brigadsi,  vol.  1,  p.  359. 


o'kbill's  infantry.  369 

then  in  oustody,  was  guspected  to  be  the  author  of  a  libel 
entitled  The  Injured  Protestant  Vindicated^  it  was  thereupon 
ordered  that  he  should  be  examined  on  oath,  with  other 
persons,  touching  that  matter.  Upon  the  return  on  his 
examination^  however,  it  was  directed  that  he  should  be 
discharged  without  fees. — ■. — At  the  Court  of  Claims  in  1700, 
Bryan  O'Cahan  preferred  his,  for  a  freehold  interest  in  lands 
in  the  County  Clare,  the  fee  of  which  was  forfeited  by  Lord 
Clare.  It  is  alleged*  that  the  Irish  Roman  Catholics 
petitioned  the  ^  Pretender,'  in  1711,  to  nominate  a  Dr.  Bryan 
O'Cahane,  then  Parish  Priest  of  Ballynascreen,  County  of 

Down,   to  the  vacant   See  of  Derry Bunting,  in  his 

Ancient  Music  of  Ireland  (pp.  44  and  68),  makes  mention  of  a 
celebrated  Irish  harper  of  the  name  of  O'Cahane,  who,  having 
been  about  the  year  1773  in  the  Highlands,  often  entertained 
the  Lord  Mac  Donald  at  his  residence  in  the  Isle  of  Skye, 
with  his  excellent  performance  on  the  harp.  ''  He  was  con- 
sidered one  of  the  chief  O'Cahanes  of  his  old  territoiy;  and 
the  names  of  the  estates  in  the  North,  to  which  he  was 
traditionally  entitled,  were  enumerated  at  the  great  meeting 
of  the  harpers  some  years  OQce  in  Belfast/' 


CAPTAIN  HENRY  COURTNEY. 

His  name  does  not  appear  on  the  Outlawries  of  1691,  nor  has 
any  information  been  obtained  of  him  or  his  family.  In  the 
first  year  of  the  English  Invasion,  Re^bmld  ^  de  Courtenae' 
was  one  of  the  witnesses  to  Henry  the  Second's  first  Charter 

♦  Ordnance  Survey  ofDeny^  p.  69. 
VOL.   II.  2  B 


370  JOKa  James's  miSH  abmy  list. 

to  Dublin,  dated  fix>m  his  Pavilion  within  that  City.  In 
1385  Philip  de  Conrtney  was  the  King's  Deputy  in  Ireland^ 
at  which  time  His  Majesty  granted  to  Anne,  Phillip's 
Consort,  the  Royal  Manor  of  Cnunlin  near  Dublin,  to  hold 
during  his  ^Vlce-Boyalty.  In  the  following  year  he  held  a 
Great  Council  or  Parliament  in  Dublin. 


CAPTAIN  PETEB  DOBIN. 

This  surname  is  traceable  on  Irish  Becords  from  the  time  of 
Bichard  the  Second,  who,  on  the  death  of  Bobert,  son  of  John 
'  Dobyn,'  conmutted  his  estates,  in  the  Moortown  near  Kil- 
leryn,  County  Kilkenny,  to  the  Abbot  of  St.  Mary's  c^ 
Jerpoint,  to  hold  during  a  minority.  In  1400  Peter  *  Dobyn' 
was  appointed  Constable  of  CarridEfingus.  In  1595  Nicholas 
Dobbin  (who  was  an  Alderman  of  Waterford)  died  seised  of 
Lisnetuny  and  other  lands  near  the  Nore  in  Kilkenny,  his 
son  and  heir,  Edmund,  being  then  only  six  months  old.  This 
boy  gave  name  to  Dobbinswood  in  said  County,  and  he  was 
father  of  another  Nicholas,  who  was  attainted  in  1641, 
although  very  young  at  the  time.  In  1611  Henry  Piers  had 
a  grant  of  the  wardship  of  Margaret  Dobbin,  alias  Butier, 
AnasfaBJa,  Sdina,  or  Elizabetii  and  Ellen  Dobbin,  daughters 
and  coheiresses  of  Nicholas  Dobbin,  late  of  Ballynakill, 
County  Waterford,  deceased. — —Lieutenant  James  Dobbin 
i^pears  on  tiie  BoU  of  the  ^  1649'  officers. 

The  Captain  here  in  commission  appears,  by  his  Christian 
name  and  otiierwise,  to  have  been  of  the  Carridd^rgus  line, 
and  is  accordingly  described  in  the  inquisition  for  his  attainder 
as  of  Dnunferogh,  County  of  Antrim;  witiiin  which  county 


O'HBILIi'0  infaktst.  371 

were  then  also  outlawed  Thomaa  ^  Dobbin*  of  Clough  and 
Henry  Dobbin  of  Ballynaoard ;  while  in  the  County  of  Kil- 
kenny three  Dobl»tis  stand  Outlawed*  At  the  Court  of 
Claims,  Captain  "William  Dobbin  was  allowed  an  equity  of 
redemption  x^H  a  mortgage  of  County  of  Antrim  l^ds, 
forfeited  by  siud  Cuptain  Peter;  Elizabeth,  a  daughter  of  this 
Captain  William,  was  married  about  the  year  1723  to  George 
Maoartney,  fhiher  by  a  former  wife  of  the  oelebrated  Lord 
Maoartney  of  Lissanoure, -^-^ — Another  Peter  Dobbin  was 
Quarter^mltfter  in  Lord  Dongan's  Dragoonsi  a  -•-'-^  Dobbin 
was  a  lieutenant  in  FitEJames's  Infimtry ;  a  third  P^ter,  alioi 
Pia«,  Was  an  Ensign  in  the  Earl  of  Tyrone's;  and  in 
Maxwell's  Dragoons,  «•--*-  Dobbin  was  a  Comet,  Anthony 
Dobin  was  a  Burgess  of  Carriokfergus  in  the  time  of  James 
the  First,  as  was  Nicholas  Dobin  in  that  of  Charles  the  First. 


CAPTAIN  HUGH  O'GRIBBIN, 

Hs  was  attainted  by  the  description  of  Hugo  O'Qribbin  of 
Eillegneeii,  County  of  Antrim,  See  further  of  this  name, 
ante  vol.  1,  p.  429,  &o. 


CAPTAIN  ART  O'HARANB. 

The  O'Horans  were  a  clan  of  Hy  Maine  in  the  County  of 
Galway,  but  do  not  seem  convertible  into  this  name. 


372  KDTG  JAHS8*8  mSH  AXMT  UBT 


LIEUTENANT  HENBY  SMITH. 

Iff  1637  died  Antbony  Smith  of  Mqyiy,  awed  of  the  Cflstle 
and  lands  of  Carrigbnify  in  Annagfa;  Bichard^  Ida  giandson, 
t^.y  son  of  Edipaid  his  son,  was  his  heir,  then  aged  (mlj 
seven  years;  and  in  1649  died  Henry  Smyth  of  Longh  in 
Down,  Us  son  and  hor,  John  then  22  yean  of  age  and  lately 
marrieil,  seems  to  have  been  the  &ther  of  this  lieatenant 
Henry.  On  the  BoU  of  Adjudications  in  &Toor  of  the  '1649* 
OflBoers,  appear  the  names  of  Colond  Alexander,  Ciq[ytains 
Jdlm,  Bichaid,  and  William,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Crecnge, 
Lientenaats  Abraham,  Balph,  and  Bobert  Smith.  The 
Attainders  of  1642  present  the  name  of  Bachard  Smith, 
described  as  of  Mandanstown,  County  of  Meaih.  In  1665 
Sir  Ed^PTBid  Smith  was  appointed  Chief  Justice  of  the  Com- 
mon Fleas  in  Ireland,  as  was  John  Smilh  a  puisne  Judge 
thereof  in  1700.  In  the  Parliament  of  1689  two  of  the  name 
were  of  the  Temporal  Peers — Smith,  Visconnt  Carrington 
of  Barrifore,  a  ^Papist,"  and  Smith,  Viscount  Stnngfixrd,  a 
Protestant ;  wfaOe  William  Smith,  Bishop  of  Baphoe,  was 
one  of  the  Spiritual  Peers.  Besides  this  officer,  four  other 
Smiths  were  commissioned  on  this  Army  List,  in  Clifford's 
Dragoons,  Qalmoy's  Horse,  Thomas  Butler^s  and  Lord 
Bellew's  Infimtry ;  and  the  ^ttunders  of  1691  present  this 
number,  the  majority  of  whom,  including  Lieutenant  Henry, 
appear  to  have  been  then  of  the  County  of  Kilkenny.  At 
the  Court  of  Claims  Valentine  Smith  was  allowed  a  term  for 
three  lives  renewable,  in  lands  forfdted  by  William  Smith  of 
Dama^,  in  that  County. 


o'nsill'b  infantst.  373 


LIEUTENANT  DANIEL  MAEAY. 

In  the  settlement  of  property  in  Ulster  consequent  upon  the 
Plantation,  Randal  Mc  Donnell  of  Dunluce,  Earl  of  Antrim, 
conveyed  lands  in  that  County  to  Daniel  'McKey'  of  Bally- 
tiiim,  to  hold  in  fee;  whereof  sud  Daniel  died  seised  in  1622, 
leaving  Alexander  Mc  Allaster  Mc  Key  his  son  and  hdr,  then 
of  full  age.*  The  present  Lieutenant  was,  probably,  the  son 
of  this  Alexander.  Another  Makay  was  an  Ensign  in  Lord 
Antrim^s  Li&ntry: 


AaikaMMMi 


LIEITTENANT  EDWARD  Mc  CONWAY. 

Amongst  the  manuscripts  of  Mr.  Robert  Conway  Hurley  of 
Tralee  (#liich  have  been  kindly  forwarded  in  aid  of  these 
Illti8tratione)y  is  a  very  interesting  pedigree  of  the  family  of 
ConWay,  compiled  from  the  Herald's  Office  in  London  and 
North  Wales,  and  yet  more  especially  from  one  at  Ragley, 
certified  by  Francis^  Viscount  Beauchamp,  'now  Marquis  of 
Hertford."    f'rom  this  it  appears  that  Sir  John  Conway^  of 
Ragley  in  Worcestershire,  (whose  lineage  is  there  deduced 
from  Sir  William  Conais,  High  Constable  of  England  in  the 
time  of  the  Conqueror),  was  made  Governor  of  Ostend  in 
1586  by  the  Earl  of  Leicester;   and  that  having  married 
Ellen,  daughter  of  Sir  Fulke  Oreville  of  Beauchamp's-court, 
Warwickshire,  he  died  in  the  first  year  of  the  reign  of  James 
the  First,  leaving  issue  by  her,  two  sons;   Sir  Edward,  his 

^  Inquis,  1635)  m  Cane*  Hib* 


374  KIHa  JAMB8*8  ntUH  ABMT  UBT. 

sooceaBor;  and  Sir  Fnlke,  his  seoond  son.  The  latter^  in 
1609,  on  the  Flantadon  of  Ulster,  settled  as  an  undertaker  in 
Antrim,  where  heobtaiaed  a  hurge tenitoiy  in  KHinltagh,  the 
ancient  inheritance  of  Con  O'NdlL  Sir  Fnlke  was  a  distin- 
goished  ofl&ser  in  Ireland,  became  a  representative  of  Antrim 
in  Parliament,  and  ultimately  a  Privy  Conndllor.  He  died 
in  1624,  leaving  a  son  Christopher,  Member  for  the  Bocon^ 
of  Armagh  in  the  Pailianient  of  1613,  and  who  married  the 
eldest  rister  of  the  jnsdy  revered  1%  James  Ware.  By  her 
he  had  James  Conway,  Captain  of  Horse,  who,  witii  his 
oonsin  Lord  Conway,  accompanied  Charles  the  Second  in  his 
exile.  On  the  Bestofation,  the  fonner  returned  to  Ireland, 
with  nothing  bnt  his  commission  to  depend  npon>  Here  Smith, 
in  his  HigtoTy  of  Kerry^  takes  np  the  migration;  ''there  came 
into  this  county,  soon  after  the  Bestoration,  James  Conway, 
son  of  Christopher  Conway,  nephew  to  Lord  Conway."  *'He 
married  (resumes  the  manuscript)  EXzabeUi,  daqf^ter  of 
Ed^rud  Boe,  Esq.,  of  Clohane,  County  of  Kei^y,  by  Alice, 
dau^iter  of  Jenkin  Coaway  of  Castle  Conway  ia  the  same 
county,  one.  of  the  Munster  undertakers  who,  ii^  the  w^  of 
Queen  Elizabeth,  came  from  Wales  \rith  Sir  William  Herb^ 
Sir  Edwaxd  Denny  and  Bobert  Blennerfaa^^ett,  to  plant  some 
of  the  forfeited  estates  of  the  Desmond;  on  which  oocaBM»t 
Jenkin  obtained  the  seigniory  <tf  Killorglin  (afterwards  called 
Castle  Conway),  comprising  the  castles,  towns,  and  lands, 
thereof,  the  island  of  Inisfidlen,  aod  several  other  denomina- 
tiona»  5,260  acres,  in  said  county ;  vith  sundry  advowsons." 
This  castle  was  afterwards  burnt  by  order  of  the  Lord 
President  of  Munster. 

James  Conway,  in  consequence  of  his  marriage  with  the 
Kerry  lady,  settled  at  Clohane,  and  had  by  her  two  sons, 
Edward  and  Christopher.     The  former  married  a  daughter  of 


LU^.       ^l 


o*N£ill's  xnfanxby.  375 

John  Blenerliasset  of  Ballyseedy,  and  seems  to  be  identical 
with  the  above  Lieutenant^  erroneoiely  styled  on  the  Army 
List,  by  a  Sept  designation,  'Mc  Conway.*  It  is  to  be 
observed,  however,  that  the  Htirley  maauacript,  from  which 
these  illn8txati(»ui  are  drawn,  states  that  Christopher,  a 
brother  of  Edward,  was  also  an  officer  in  King  James's 
Army,  and  &11  at  Anghrim;  he  had  married  Joan  Boche  of 
the  House  of  Dundine,  Connty  of  Cork,  by  whom  he  had 
issue  six  sons  (and  one  daughter,  Elizabeth,  who  became  the 
wife  of  John  O'Coimell  of  Derrynane).  The  second  of  his 
mr  sons,  James  Conway,  WCTt  to  France  with  the  Lish 
emigrants,  and  had  the  command  of  a  company  in  Lord 
Mountc^sheFs  Regiment.  Thomas  Conway,  the  fourth  of 
Christopher's  sons,  had  by  his  wife  Anne,  daughter  of 
Patrick  Fitzgerald  of  Ghdlerus,  for  his  second  son,  another 
James  Conway,  Count  Conway  in  France,  a  very  distin- 
guished officer  in  the  Lish  Brigade ;  and  he,  marrying 
Julianne  O'Mahony,  had  by  her  two  sons,  Thomas  Count 
Conway,  and  Thomas  Henry,  Viscount  Conway,  both  officers 
in  the  service  of  France ;  but  neither  left  male  issue.  Edward, 
the  third  son  of  Thomas  and  Anne  Conway,  married  Ellen 
Mahony,  by  whom  he  had  two  sons;  Thomas,  who  died  in 
1824,  8.p,;  and  James,  who  became  a  Lieutenant-Colonel 
in  the  Fifty-third  Foot;  Ma  eldest  son,  John  S.  Conway, 
appears  to  be  now  the  representative  of  this  ancient  family. 

To  return  to  the  immediate  descendants  of  Christopher 
Conway  by  Joan  Boche ;  Bobert,  their  fifth  son,  married 
Mary,  daughter  of  Colonel  Maurice  Hussey  of  Flesk-bridge, 
now  called  Cahimane,  by  whom  he  had  a  son,  Edward 
Conway ;  who,  marrying  Christian,  daughter  of  Edward  Bice, 
left  issue  by  her  one  son,  who  died  immarried  in  1777,  and 
two  daughters;  Lucy,  who  also  died  unmarried  in  1799,  and 


376  KING  JAMESB  OUSH  ARlfT   IJ8T. 

Mary,  who  nnmed  John  Hoiley  in  1784,  and  had  lasae  by 
him  as  before  mentioned  (ante,  toL  1,  p.  327).  Christopher, 
the  sixth  son  of  Christopher  by  Joan  Rodie,  married  Ellen 
Mahony,  by  whom  he  had  two  sons.  Sir  Matthew  and  Sir 
Bobart,  Ejoights  of  St  Loois,  and  who  both  died  without 
issoe.  All  these  childien  of  Christopher  and  Joan  were 
educated  members  of  the  Choich  of  Borne,  and  henoe  their 
necessitated  devotion  to  foieign  service. 

In  Coiic  Abbey»  County  of  Tyrcme,  is  a  monument  conk- 
memomling  Captaun  Cormac  Conway,  who  fought  f<Mr  King 
James  at  Aughiim;  while  it  may  be  added  that  a  Ueutenant 
James  Conway  af^wars  upon  the  Bdl  of  A^judicalioiiB,  in 
&vour  of  the  '  1649'  Officers. 


LIEUTENANT  DONAGHT  MAC  GUNSHENAN. 

A  CULK  of  this  name  was  loeated  in  Fennanagh,  about 
Lough  Erne. 


LIEUTENANT  BBTAN  Mc  C ANN. 

The  Mc  Canns  were  chiefii  of  Hy  Bieasail,  an  ancient 
territCHy  aa  the  borders  of  Armagh  and  Tyrone,  near  Lough 
Neagh.  In  1189  (say  the  Four  Masters)  died  Echmilidh, 
s<m  of  Mc  Can,  *  the  delight  and  happiness  of  all  Tyrone.* 
In  1212  the  death  of  Donogfa  Mac  Can,  Chief  of  the  Sq»t,  is 
xecorded.  Five  of  this  fionily  were  dain  in  the  Munster  war 
of  Eliabeth's  time,  at  the  battle  of  Knsale.      A  


^ 


O'NEILL'S  INPANTEY.  877 

'  Makane/  probably  of  this  surname,  was  Lieutenant  in  Sir 
Neill  O'Neill's  Dragoons ;  while  the  name  of  Ensign  Alex- 
ander Mc  Canne  appears  on  the  Boll  of  A^udications  in 
favour  of  the  '  1649'  Officers. 


LIEUTENANT  CON  O'DOHERTY. 

The  O'Dohertys  were  an  andent  Sept,  a  branch  of  tfa^ 
O'Donnells^  located  on  the  territory  between  Loughs  Foyle 
and  Swilly  and  the  Atlantic^,  now  known  as  the  Barony  of 
Inishowen^  County  of  Donegal.  Li  1194  an  Abbey  was 
founded  for  Cistercians  at  Hilfothair  in  this  Coimty  by  the 
O'Doghertie.  It  was  a  filial  establishment  of  Easroa^  to 
which,  in  process  of  time,  it  was  united*  In  three  years 
after,  Eachmarcagh  O'Doghertie,  who  had  assumed  the 
chieftaincy  of  Ejnel-Connell,  the  country  of  O'Donnell,  was 
slain  by  John  d'e  Courcy,  in  an  engagement,  where  fell 
seyeral  of  both  those  native  Septs.  In  1252  Conor  O'Doherty 
died,  chief  of  Ardmiodhab  in  Donegal,  '  the  tower'  add  the 
Masters,  ^  of  hospitality  and  bravery  in  the  North.'  In  1407 
died  Owen  O'Doherty^  heir  to  this  Chieftainship,  as  did  in 
1413  Conor  O'Doherty  styled  '  Chief  of  Ardmiodhair  and 
Prince  of  Inisowen.'  In  1454  Donell  O'Donnell,  chief  of 
Tyrconnel,  was  taken  prisoner  by  the  O'Dohertie.  The 
Tanist  succession  of  these  rival  Chie&  is  very  accurately  and 
fully  given  by  the  Four  Masters.  In  1548  O'Doherty  was 
one  of  the  '  confederates'  with  Con  O'Neill  against  English 
government,  t    In  1582,  say  the  Four  Masters,  died  the 

*  ArckdaWs  Man.  Hib.  p.  99.  f  Stuarfs  Armagh^  p.  237« 


378  KIHG  JAMES'S  nUBH  AXMT  LIST. 


OT^oherty,  t^.,  John,  son  of  Phdm,  son  of  Coimor  earraeh^ 
Loffd  rf  iDi&howen.  ^*  Had  tbe  deeesaed  been  a  hostage  to 
be  lanaomed,  hoTBea  and  flodoi  would  have  been  given  for  his 
ransom;  his  son  John  oge  iraa  appcnnted  in  his  plaoe,  in 
opposition  to  Cahir  0*Dohertyy  and  on  that  aoconnt  the 
conntry  was  much  plundered  in  its  cropSy  com,  dwellings,  and 
cattle.'^ 

At  the  Parliament  convened  by  Sir  John  Penrot,  in  1585, 
this  Sept  was  represented  by  the  aforesaid  John  oge.  In 
three  years  after,  he  was  taken  prisoner  by  the  forces  of  Sir 
Richard  Bingham  and  %  Thomas  N<Maris,  on  the  eharge  of 
having  *'  made  ftiendship  and  alfiance  with  a  portion  of  the 
men  dT  the  ^pamsh  fleet"  He  died  in  1601,  «*Lo(rd  of  the 
Barony  of  Imshowen,**  say  the  Masters,  *'  and  there  was  not  a 
Lord  of  a  Barony  amongst  the  Iiish^  more  distinguished  for 
manual  action  and  hospitality,  or  more  bold  in  counsel  than 

he." ^That  rank  and  title  the  O'Doherty  maintamed  until 

the  time  of  James  the  First,  when  Sr  Cahir  O'Doharfy  was 
killed  in  a  contest  with  the  English.  He  had  in  1605  a  grant 
finom  ffihg  James,  of  various  manors,  lorddiips,  castles,  knds, 
advowsons,  &c.|  m  the  County  of  Inishowen,  or  O^Ddierty's 
Country,  saving  and  reserving  the  Castie  of  Culmore,  in  lieu 
of  which  he  was  to  receive  four  salmons  per  day  during  the 
season  annually,  with  tiie  custody  oi  the  castie  in  time  of 
peace,  or  when  not  occupied  by  the  Crown;  to  hold  same  to 
him  and  his  heirs  male,  paying  between  Michaelmas  sad  Alt 
Saints'  days  thirty  good  and  fat  beeves  at  Newry,  and  he  and 
hia  said  heirs  attending  all  hoetings,  riongs  out,  and  joumies, 
with  twenty  footmen  and  six  horsemen  armed,  and  with 
victuals  for  forty  days,  to  serve  against  the  '  rebels'  in  Irdand. 
This  was  a  restoration  patent,  as  of  territory  theretofore 
forfeited  by  Sr  John  O'Doherty,  Knight,  Chief  <^  his  name 


o'neux's  istantbt.  379 

and  father  of  aaid  Sir  CiJur.  The  Act  of  1612,  however,  for 
the  attainder  of  the  Earl  of  Tyrone  and  confiscatimi  of  Ulater, 
included  Sir  Cahir  O'Doherty, '  kte  of  Birtecastle,  County  of 
Denial/  in  its  extermination;  and  the  King  thereupon 
directed  that  his  possessions  within  the  Barony  of  Inishowen 
and  O'Doherfy's  Countrie  should  be  granted  to  Sir  Arthur 
Chichester,  Ejught,  with  liberty  to  create  manors  and  freehold 
estates.  In  1614  Lady  Mary  O'Doherty,  his  widow,  had  a 
grant  of  a  peneion  of  £106  ISs.  4d.,  ^  in  lieu  of  a  jointure  and 
third  of  the  lands  of  her  attainted  husband.  To  another  lady 
of  this  broken  down  and  landless  family,  '  Rose  O'Doherty, 
daughter  of  the  Dynasts  of  Inishowen/  a  monument  is  erected 
in  the  Franciscan  churdh  at  Lovaine.  It  states  that  she  was 
&vst  QUtrried  to  Ca&y  O^Donnell,  cousin  of  the  Prince  of 
Tyiconnel,  and  secondly  to  Owen  O'Neill,  Commander  of  the 
C«thoUc  Army  in  Ulster. 

In  1666,  by  reason  of  resistance  made  to  Sir  Bobert 
Murray,  alias  Creighton,  in  his  possession  of  sundry  manors, 
towns,  and  lands  in  Boylngh  and  Bannagh,  County  Donegal, 
by  William  Younge,  Under  Sheriff  of  that  County,  James 
Nisbett  of  Tamitallen,  Cahir  O'Doherty,  Hugh  dubk 
O'Doherty,  -i— —  O'Doherty,  son  to  Cahir  O'Doherty,  Owen 
O'Quin,  Cormuck  O'Quin,  Shane  bane  O'Quin,  &c.,  the 
Coroners  of  that  County,  were,  by  order  oi  the  Irish  House  of 
Commons,  commanded  to  quiet  Sir  Robert  in  his  possession 
there.  In  1667  Charles  Doherty  had  a  grant  of  559  acres  in 
Cayan,  but  he  was  attainted  in  1691,  as  was  also  Edmund 
O'Doherty  of  the  County  of  Donegal.  The  latter  forfeited 
derivative  rEiterests,  the  reversion  of  which  in  fee  was  claimed 
in  1700  by  the  Earl  of  Donegal,  but  his  petition  was  dismist 

as  cautionary.    In  Maxwell's  Dragoons Doherty  was  a 

Cornet    Anotbjer  of  the  name  was  an  Ensign  in  Fitz  James's 


380  KING  James's  ibish  asmt  list. 


Infimtry;  a  third  an  Enaigii  in  Lord  Kilmallock's )  and 
fourth  Qnarter-Master  in  Colonel  Dudley  Bagnair84 


^m* 


LIEUTENANT  BRYAN  MAC  MANU& 

Thb  Mc  Manus  mus  a  ntimerons  and  influential  Clan  of 
Fermanagh.  According  td  the  native  Annalists,  they  had 
the  command  of  the  shipping  in  Longh  Erne,  and  held  thd 
post  of  hereditary  c^ef  managers  of  its  fisheries  under  the 
Maguire.  A  branch  of  this  family  was  also  located  on  the 
borders  of  the  Counties  of  Leitrim  and  Boscommon.  The 
Foai*  Masters  record,  at  1495,  the  death  of  Manus,  son  of 
Owen  roe  Mac  Manus,  lord  of  Tir'Tuathail-Maolgarbh,  also 
the  death,  in  three  years  after,  of  the  Mac  Manns,  t.^.,  Cathal 
oge^  son  of  Cathal,  son  of  Cathal,  son  of  Gillpatrick,  son  of 
Matthew,  ^.,  a  coadjutor  Bishop  of  Clogher  for  fifteen  years 
before  his  death,  'a  patron  of  learning  and  art  in  his  own 
country,  chief  conservator  of  the  canons,  a  fountain  of  charity 
and  men^  to  the  poor  and  unprotected  of  GU>d's  people,  a 
man  who  brought  together  many  historical  works,  from  which 
he  compiled  the  Annals  of  BaUynuusmanua^  (better  known  as 
the  AnnaU  of  Ulster^  published  in  the  splendid  collection  of 
the  Rerufh  Hibefnicarum  Scriptores,  by  the  late  Dr.  Charles 
O'Conor,  the  venerable  Bede  of  Irish  History).  The  afore^ 
said  Bishop  Mac  Manus  died  of  small-pox,  in  the  sixtieth  year 
of  his  age.  The  Attainders  of  1642  have  but  one  of  this 
name,  and  fiur  away  from  the  homes  of  the  Sept;  he  is 
described  as  Owen  Mc  Manus  of  Dunbouke,  County  of 
"Wlcklow.  Those  of  1691  trace  them  back  in  their  old 
province,  but   to   be   again    expelled*      There  were  then 


O'NEILL'S  INPANTBT.  381 

outlawed  Bory  Pheluny  Mc  MaauB  of  Lisnaskea,  County  of 
Fermanagh,  and  Cullen  Mc  Manus  of  Tullycool,  County  of 
Down;  one  of  whom  was  a  Lieutepant  in  Loird  Antrim's 
Infantry, 


LIEUTENANT  EDMUND  Mc  ILDERRY, 

In  the  Inquisition  taken  on  his  attpdnder,  he  is  called  and 
described  as  Edwa^rd  Mc  Ilderry,  Salt-pans,  County  of 
Antrim, 


ENSIGN  ^ —  MACANAIiLY. 

By  inquisitions,  taken  in  relation  to  the  forfeitures  of  1641, 
it  was  found  that  — •. —  Mp  Nally,  then  late  of  Boskenedy  in 
Antrim,  was  seised  in  fee  of  that  denopu|iation  in  right  of  his 
fiither  Donell  Mc  Nally,  apd  that,  he  haying  engaged  in  actual 
rebellion,  the  premises  became  forfeited ;  that  Eiver,  son  of 
James  oge  Mc  Nally,  died  seised  of  other  estates  in  said 
Coimty,  leaving  Bory  his  son  and  heir,  who  became  seised 
thereof,  but  died  before  that  dyil  war,  and  that  James,  son  of 
Owen  Mc  Nally  was  possessed  of  other  estates  there,  which 
he  then  forfeited.  The  name  does  not  at  all  appear  on  the 
1691  Attainders, 


382  KING  JAICBS^  IRISH  ASMT  LIST. 


ENSIGN  JAMES  O'CBILLEY. 

[This  Sept  was  originally  from  Connaught,  and  is  considered 
to  have  branched  from  the  Mc  Dennots  of  Moyluig.  It 
became  established  as  Erenaghs  in  Londonderry;  and  the 
parish  of  Tamlaghi-O-Crilley  took  its  oame  from  their  settle- 
ment in  that  district.] 


■  ■  iirf 


ENSIGN  MTLES  Mo  NAMEE, 

[The  heads  of  the  fiunily,  to  which  this  Officer  belonged, 
Mao  Conmidhe,  cmglice  Mac  Namee,  were  the  hereditary 
bards  of  the  O'Neills  of  Tyrone,]  The  most  noted  of  the 
race  was  GKlbride  Mc  Namee,  hard  to  the  famous  Brysn 
O'Neill,  Prince  of  Tyrone,  who  was  slain  at  the  battle  oi 
Tyrone  in  1260;  on  which  event  a  curious  and  interesting 
poem  was  composed  by  Gilbride,  which  has  been  published 
with  translation  and  notes  by  the  Celtic  Society.  According 
to  Dr.  O'Donovan,  tiie  Mc  Namees  are  still  very  numerous 
in  Ulster.  Amongst  those  who  sued  out  patents  of  general 
pardon  in  1604  were  deven  '  Mc  Nemys,'  all  stated  to  be  of 
Mayo,  and  described  as  *  rymets/ 


CAYEErAGH'S  rNFAITTBT. 


383 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY, 


OOLOKBL  OHABLES  CAYENAaH'S. 


The  Colonel. 

[  Jobn  Lacy, 
Ueatenant-GoloneL  ] 

[Gros.  Deyerande, 
UajwO 

Sipnon  GftTQBai^ 

Walter  Esmond, 

LaSr.De£b8er. 

Bobert  Esnumd. 

AnthoD J  Eutaoe. 

Ignatius  Caraaagli, 
Grenad. 

[Nicholas  Warren.] 

Nicholas  NickBon. 

Ed.  CaTenagh. 

WaUh. 


Bonayentnro  Ki 


Browne. 


h. 


Dania  'KavmagV 


»-*«  Eustace. 

rWiUiam  Boole. 
\WiUiam  Fisher. 

— ^Archbold. 


Bntiffiu, 
CaTeDagh. 

Bagnel. 


Ja.  Bvma. 


Ednrand  <KaimuiagV 
--»  FitsGerald 


— ^Einsella,  *- 

—  Irers.  -^ 

Rer. EdBsslae^  CkofkA^ 

— .  ICagrath,  AayetNi. 


Nickson. 

Meade. 

Waldu 


384  KiHO  James's  nosH  ABmr  ust. 


COLONEL  CHARLES  CAVENAGH. 

Debxod  Mac  Muhbough,  who  led  in  the  English  inTaderSy 
was  at  the  time  King  of  Ldnster.  Donal  Cavenagh  was 
his  only  son^  and  as  sodi,  though  iUe^timate,  assumed  a  title 
of  soveieignty  in  that  province.  His  descendants,  known  as 
Cavenaghs,  or  Mac  Muirou^  Cavenagbs,  maintained  thdr 
independence,  and  held  the  tide  of  Kings  of  Leinster,  with 
large  possesions  in  Wexford  and  Carlow  down  to  the  reign 
of  EHzabetb-  On  a  fortress  by  the  bank  of  the  Barrow, 
between  Carlow  and  L^ghlin,  they  were  inaognrated,  at- 
tended by  the  O'Nolan,  Chief  of  Forth  in  Carlow,  as  King's 
MarshaL  In  1314  Edweutl  the  Second  directed  his  especial 
nussiye  to  Maurice  *  Kavanagh'  Mac  Murrough,  for  lus  aid 
against  the  Scots.  The  Four  Masters  record,  at  1369,  the 
death  of  Grerald  Cavenagh,  ^  heir  presumptive  to  the  crown 
of  Leinster ;'  while  a  patent  roll  of  1377  states  that  Art  Mac 
Murrough,  of  Kinselagh,  came  before  a  Parliament  of  Dublin 
in  that  year,  and  pledged  himself  and  his  Sept  to  bear  allegiance 
to  the  King  of  England,  and  even  to  aid  in  hostings  against 
the  Lrish  at  his  own  expense,  he  receiving  from  the  Treasury 
therefor  an  annuity  of  forty  marks:  and  in  1422  the  Lish 
Council,  by  reason  that  Grerald  O'Kavanagh,  brother  of  Donat 
Mac  Murrough,  the  Chief  of  his  nation  had  sustained  much 
loss  in  labouring  to  establish  peace  with  various  Lrish  of 
Leinster,  and  had  conformed  himself  to  allegiance  on  his 
oath,  granted  him  forty  marks,  in  addition  to  an  annuity  of 
eighty  marks,  which  said  Donat  had  enjoyed  from  Henry  the 
Fourth. 
Five  years  previously  died  the  most  illustrious  individual 


cavenagh's  infantrt.  385" 

of  this  Sept,  the  aforesaid  Art  Mac  Murrough  O'Cayenagh, 
styled  King  of  Leioster;  *'  a  man,"  say  the  Masters,  '*  who 
defended  his  proTjnce  against  the  English  and  Irish  from 
the  age  of  16  tp  that  of  60;  a  man  distinguished  for  his 
hospitality,  knowledge,  and  feats  of  arms;  a  man  fiiU  of  pro- 
sperity  and  Boyalty,  a  founder  pf  churches  aiid  monasteries 
by  his  bounty  and  contributions.  He  had  been  forty-two 
yLs  in  thZ  govermnent  of  Leinster,  when  he^ed/ 
Throughout  these  Annals  his  contests  with  the  I}nglish,  in 
the  yery  presence  of  their  King,  Richaid  the  Second,  are 
proudly  recorded;  and  when  his  son,  after  a  long  imprison- 
ment, was  restored  in  1428  to  his  people,  they  write,  *^  Mur- 
rough, Lord  of  Leinster,  namely  Donogh,  the  son  of  Art 
Cayenagh,  who  was  imprisoned  in  England  for  the  space  of 
nine  years,  was  ransomed  by  his  own  ProTinoe  which  was 
joyful  news  to  the  Irish."  In  1442  '  Murtogh  Cayenagh,  the 
son  of  Mac  Murrogh,  heir  to  the  lordship  of  Leinster,  was 
slain  by  the  English  of  the  Condae  Beayach  (Wexford) ;  and 
Mac  Murrogh,  after  the  death  of  his  said  son,  waged  war 
against  the  English  of  Wexford  and  Leinster^  who  were 
obliged  to  liberate  the  seyen  hostages  that  were  taken  on  the 
day  Murtogh  was  slain,  and  to  pay  to  Mao  Murtogh  eight 
hundred  marks  as  an  eric  (fine)  for  the  death  of  bis  son.* 

In  the  Munster  wars  at  the  close  of  the  reign  of  Queen 
Elizabeth,  Donal  O'Cayenagh,  sumamed  Spanagh^  as  haying 
sojourned  some  time  in  Spain,  became  a  distinguished  leader 
of  the  Irishry ;  he,  howeyer,  appears  to  haye  afterwards  made 
his  terms  with  the  Goyemment,  and  was  entered  'on  the 
cheque  roll  for  a  pension  of  ten  shillings  per  day,  till  he  recoyer 
his  rights  or  be  proyided  for/  That  pension  he  surrendered 
in  1615  on  a  grant  of  lands  in  the  County  of  Wexford,  and 
died  himself  in  1631.  In  1611  and  1617  Donal,  son  of 
VOL.  n.  2  o 


886  xiKa  JAiCBsVi  tsssa  Axm  list. 

Brian  Cayenagh  of  ToomecoRy,  and  DawHn^  boh  of  Mnnrogk 
Caranagh  of  Ballygobbin,  had  grants  of  tbiioiis  townkiidfl  in 
the  Coimtieft  <^  Wexford  and  Carlow;  the  former  died  in 
1620,  leaving  Dowlin,  hia  eon  and  heir,  then  aged  thirty-two 
and  manied. 

At  the  head  of  die  atldndere  of  1691  Charles  Caranagh, 
the  aboTe  Colonel,  is  described  as  of  Carriek-Duff,  County 
Carlow,  Esq.  The  others  dien  outlawed  of  that  surname  were 
Ignatius  and  James  Cavenagh  of  the  same  place;  Seymour 
of  Seskin,  Marcus  of  BaUinrush«  Morgan  of  Burros,  and 
GrarretofCowlagh  in  said  County;  Thomas  of  Kilkenny  and 
Edward  of  Ballinastro;  William  and  Denis  of  Ballynabohy, 
Darby  of  Kilkennan,  Edward  of  Ballyfipay,  Thomas  of  Ennis- 
eorthy,  Brian  of  Ponkmenlty,  Morris  of  Ballelingham, 
Morgan,  son  of  Art  of  Coolbaok,  Garret  of  Ballynakilty, 
Andrew  of  Ballynaoooly,  Edmund  of  Ballinshea,  Eneas  of 
liimbriok,  ao4  M(»rgan  ci  Ballynasollagh,  all  in  the  County 
of  Wexford.  One  of  these,  ^Qarret,'  was  a  Quarter-Master  in 
Tyrconnel's  Horse, 


■•«■(»" 


[LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  JOHN  LACY.] 

This  post  does  not  appear  filled  upon  the  present  Army  List, 
but  having  been  subsequ^itly  so  appointed,  as  shown  in 
Appendix  to  King's  Staie  of  the  PraUatanU^  it  is  here 
inserted. 

This  great  mune  occurs  in  the  first  Boll  of  the  Patents  of 
Ireland,  the  King  thereby  granting  to  Hugh  de  Lacy  tiie 
whole  Province  of  Meath,  theretofore  the  mensal  estate  of 
the  native  Monarohs  of  Ireland;  to  bold  the  same  with  as 


catsnac^h's  infaktbt.  887 

full  and  ample  powers  as  Hugh  O'Melaghlin,  then  yet  styled 
King  of  Meath,  had  held  the  same,  and  this  oonveyance  is 
especially  witnessed  amongst  others  by  Earl  Strongbow, 
whose  recognition,  as  husband  of  the  heiress  of  King  Dermott 
Mac  Murrongh,  Henry  was  perhaps  then  not  unwilling  in 
policy  to  obtain.*  De  Lacy  in  this  grant  had  the  powers 
of  a  Lord  Palatine  oonfened  upon  him,  and  early  after  he 
sought  to  arrange  a  peaoeM  treaty  with  Boderic  O'Conor, 
the  King  of  Lreland,  as  acknowledged  by  the  natives.  They 
met  on  the  banks  of  the  Shannon,  but  De  Lacy's  terms  were 
then  considered  too  severe  to  be  accepted  by  Boderic.  The 
former,  however,  received  his  daughter  in  marriage  as  his 
second  wife,  whereby  he  incurred  the  Boyal  jealousy,  and 
was  recalled  fix>m  the  Viceroyalty  which  he  then  filled.  His 
powers  as  a  Palatine  extended  to  the  erection  of  boroughs, 
one  of  which,  on  the  northern  border  of  the  Pale,  was 
Drogheda;  and  he  yet  n^ore  practically  endeavoured  to  secure 
the  English  interest,  and  to  extend  the  circuit  of  that  Pale, 
by  fortifying  castles  in  advance  into  the  island.  The  Four 
Masters  jealously  say  of  his  government,  that  **he  confis- 
cated and  transferred  many  churches  to  the  English  Lords 
in  Meath,  Bre&ey,  and  Oriel,  and  to  him  the  rents  of  Con- 
naught  were  paid.**  He  was  assassinated  in  1186,  while 
inspecting  a  castle  which  had  just  been  erected  by  his  order 
at  Durrow,  in  the  King's  County,  His  sons  were  Hugh  and 
Walter ;  the  former,  after  sharp  contests  with  De  Conrcy, 
became  Lord  of  Ulster;  and  dying  in  1241,  his  daughter 
and  heiress  married  William  de  Burgo,  who  died  in  1244. 
Their  daughter  and  heiress  married  Lionel,  Duke  of  Cla** 
rence,  third  son  of  Eang  Edward  the  Third,  and  she  was 

^jyAJtaiC$  DroghedOy  r.  3,  p.  40. 


388  KING  JAMES'S  IBI8H  ABMT  LIST. 

grandmother  of  Edward  the  Fourth,  in  whose  right  the  title 
and  estates  vested  in  the  Crown.  To  the  fiiilure  of  the  De 
Lacjs'  issue  male,  Baron  Finglas  in  his  Breviate  mainly 
attributes  the  origin  of  absenteeism  in  this  country ;  and  it  is 
a  remarkable  ooncurrenoe  in  the  destinies  of  Ireland,  that  the 
male  line  of  Earl  Strongbow  also  ^ed,  and  simihir  marriages 
of  his  female  issue  into  English  families,  scattered  his  im« 
mense  territory  amongst  powerful  but  ever  absent  proprietors. 
In  1314  Walter  and  another  Hugh  de  Lacy  were  of  the 
Irish  Magnates  who  attend^  King  Edward  on  his  expedition 
against  Scotland.  They  appear  to  have  descended  from 
Hugh  de  Lacy's  second  xparriage  with  the  daughter  of 
Boderic  O'Conor. 

In  1580  Hugh  Lacy*  the  Roman  Catholic  Bishop  of 
Jjimerick,  suffered  death  for  his  fidth.  In  some  few  years 
after,  in  Mountjoy's  engagement  against  the  Earl  of  Tyrone, 
fell  Pierce  Lacy  of  Bruff,  County  of  Limerick,  ^'  a  zealous 
Catholic,  and  one  of  the  most  alert  of  the  l^unster  Chief- 
tarns.''*  In  1604  and  1608  King  James  the  First  granted  to 
his  favourite,  Sir  James  Fulleirton,  the  castle  and  lands  of 
Bruff  in  Lim^ck  (inier  alia)^  as  '^  late  in  the  tenure  of 
Piers  Lacie  attainted,  with  9II  other  his  estate  belonging  to 
him  at  the  time  of  his  death  ii^  rebellion;  in  1614* however 
that  Monarph  granted  to  Hugh  I,iacy  the  castle,  manor  and 
lands  of  Brury,  with  several  townlands  and  appurtenances 
in  the  said  County.  The  name  does  not  appear  on  the 
Attainders  of  1642,  although  there  were  at  that  time  three 
branches  of  the  fiunily  settled  in  the  County  of  Limerick 
alone,  at  Bruree,  Bruff,  and  BaUingarry.f  Lieutenant-Colonel 
Lacy  was  however  espedally  excepted  from  the  benefit  of 

*  Stuarti  Armagh^  p.  296.  f  FerrorU  lAmendc^  p.  346. 


CAYENAaH'S  IKFAKTBT.  889 

the  articles,  entered  into  on  the  Capitulation  of  Limerick  in 
1651.  In  1668  Walter  Laoy  passed  patent  for  168  acres  in 
Westmeath,  as  did,  in  the  following  year,  Nathaniel,  son 
and  heir  of  Nathaniel  Lacy  of  London,  deceased,  and  Elizabeth 
his  relict  and  executrix,  for  480  in  Tipperary. 

The  John  Lacy  here  commissioned  was  of  the  House 
of  Bmff,  and  the  only  indiyidual  of  the  name  who  attended 
the  Supreme  Council  of  Kilkenny  in  1647;  he  was  placed 
in  the  rank  of  Colonel  on  the  Restoration;  and,  on  the 
raising  of  the  army  for  King  James,  was  appointed 
Lieutenant-Colonel  in  this  Regiment.  He  resided  at  Kil* 
mallock,  and  was  Deputy  Governor  of  Limerick  under 
Lord  Blessington  in  1685-^6;  at  which  time  the  Viceroy 
the  Earl  of  Clarendon,  wrote  of  him  to  tiie  Earl  of  Sun- 
derland : — ^^  Here  is  a  Colonel  Lacy,  an  old  Cavalier,  who 
hopes  the  King  will,  when  he  has  an  opportu!!Qity,  put  him 
into  employment.  I  am  sure  he  deserves  it*  He  was  an 
officer  in  the  time  of  King  Charles  the  Firsts  and  I  believe 
His  Majesty  remembers  him  with  himself  in  France  and 
Flanders,  where  he  served  very  bravely;  This  poor  gentle- 
man was  settled  here  in  a  very  comfortable  way,  when,  in 
Oates'  'reign,*  he  i^as  sent  into  England,  and  kept  prisoner 
in  the  Gatehouse  about  two  years,  besides  other  severities 
both  to  his  person  and  his  estatCi  I  take  the  liberty  to 
recommend  his  enclosed  petition  to  your  Lordship.'**  Cla- 
rendon at  the  same  time  wrote  a  special  letter  in  Lacy's 
favour  to  the  King,  gracefully  adding,  "  I  beg  your  Majesty's 
pardon  for  saying  thus  much  in  a  particular  man's  case, 
which  I  will  never  do,  but  when  the  person's  eminent  loyalty 
and  services  will  justify  me."t    Subsequently,  alluding  to 


*  Smget^B  Correqxmdence  of  Clarendon^  v.  1,  p.  807.     fldem,  p.  208. 


390  KING  JAXKS's  nam  abkt  list. 

growing  appiehenaons  thai  a  restoration  of  tfacir  knids  woold 
be  songfat  by  many  finmn  the  new  EjDg,  and  that  00016,  wbo 
had  been  made  officen,  enoooiaged  the  appfehenion,  the 
Viceroy  says,  '^  all  this  woold  be  very  easily  remedied,  and 
the  King  have  all  done  he  has  mind  to,  if  men  would  be 
discreet  in  their  states  as  sevend  are;  amongst  whom  ooght 
to  be  xememberod  Sir  John  Fitzgerald,  both  the  Dempeeys, 
C(donel  ^leUon,  Lacy^  and  many  more  who  have  moulded 
their  troops  and  companies  to  their  mind^  jrithout  the 
least  dissBtisfiiction  to  any  one.  They  are  beloved  in  their 
quarters,  they  cherish  and  comfort  the  people,  and  ponidi 
those  who  talk  impertinently^  But  there  are  likewise  several 
of  whom  I  cannot  give  so  good  characters;  and  those  who 
ought  to  reprove  them  for  indiscretion  wiU  only  say,  *  Alas ! 
poor  man,  he  has  lost  his  estate;  you  must  give  him  leave 
to  talk/  I  have  taken  the  liberty  to  entertain  your  Lordship 
with  tiiese  stories,  that  you  may  see  something  of  the  temper 
i}ii  persons  as  well  as  things ;  and  to  show  yoo  that  it  is  not 
so  much  the  King's  emplojring  Roman  Catholics  in  lus  army 
which  disquiets  men,  as  that  tiiere  are  such  from  whom,  by 
their  own  words  and  actions,  they  fear  to  be  oppressed  instead 
of  braig  protected.  Believe  it,  my  Lord,  when  it  is  known 
what  the  King  would  havci  and  which,  with  submission  Qn 
some  cases)  ou^it  to  be  known  but  to  a  few,  it  may  be 
easily  done  to  general  aatisfiiction;  for  I  must  needs  say, 
never  were  people  in  the  world  more  disposed  to  obedience, 
and  to  betake  themselves  to  their  industry,  than  the  generality 
of  people  here,  if  they  are  let  akme/**  Li  1689  this  Colonel 
John  Lacy  was  one  of  the  Representatives  of  Kilmallock  in 
the  Parliament  of  Dublin.    At  the  second  siege  of  Limerick, 


*  SmgtrU  dmrupondenee  of  Lord  Clarendon^  v«  1,  p.  456. 


CATBNAGH'S  INl^ANTBT.  391 

irhcn  the  WiUiamiteB  had  succeeded  in  thSrowing  a  bridg» 
oYer  the  Shannon  at  Thomond  Gkite,  (aa  before  mention^i 
p.  76,)  Colonel  Lacy,  with  800  picked  men,  was  ordered  out 
to  contest  their  adranoe,  which  he  did  With  great  Talour 
and  good  suooess  for  a  time,  till,  orerpower^  by  It  Continual 
supply  of  firesh  opponents,  he  was  forced  to  give  way  and 
retire  to  the  gate ;  which  the  Mayor  of  the  City,  howereTi 
apprdiending  the  English  might  enter  with  th^n,  inipru- 
dently.  dosed,  whereby  the  greater  number  of  Lacy's  gaUailt 
band  Was  out  down< 

The  subsequent  Attainders  of  1691  include  the  ilaines  c^ 
this  Colonel,  styled  "  of  Eilmallock  ;*'  Simon  Lacy  o£  F^rns^ 
County  of  Weatftxtd;  and  Thomas  and  Walter  Lacy  of 
Balrath,  County  of  Westmeath.  This  Thomas  Lacy  foi*' 
feited  also  largely  in  the  Barony  and  County  of  Bosoommon. 
At  the  Court  held  in  Chichester  House^  Patrick  Ltoy 
preferred  his  daim  therein,  as  second  son  of  Thomas  Ijacy 
the  elder,  as  well  as  on  behalf  of  Thomas  Lacy  the  younger, 
Bartholomew,  Francis,  and  Mark  Lacyi  younger  sons  of  said 
Thomas  the  elder,  all  of  whom,  it  was  alleged,  were  entitled 
to  estates  tafl  in  these  confiscations,  u^er  family  settlements 
of  1674,  confirmed  by  the  will  of  the  okitnant's  grandfiither^ 
Walter  Lacy  in  1685^  The  petition  was  however  <]Usmi8t, 
as  was  another  of  Edwaid  Lacy  for  a  distinct  itotate  tail  in 
the  Boscommon  land  of  said  Thomas  Lacy  the  elder;  and 
the  greater  portion  of  his  estate  wils  sold  in  1703  by  the 
Commissioners  to  Samuel  Massy  of  Dublin,  M.D. 

A Lacy  was  a  Lieutenant  in  Sir  John  Fitigerald's 

Infimtry,  and  Various  gallant  officers  of  the  name  appear  on 
the  records  of  continental  tnilitary  achievement,  the  career  of 
one  of  whmn  connects  with  the  recent  contest  in  the  Crimea, 
the  Count  Peter  de  Lacy*    He  was  bom  in  the  County 


392  KIH6  JAMESES  IRISH  ABKT  IJ8T. 


of  Limerick  in  1678;  his  fiitlier  bftving  been  Peter,  son  of 

John  Lacy  of  Ballingany.    On  the  aq>ito]ation  of  Limmcic 

he  was  bionglit  off  by  bis  ande.  Brigadier  and  Quarter^ 

master  General  James  de  Lacyi  with  the  skeleton  of  the 

Prince  of  Wales's  Begunent  of  Infimtiy.    Young  Peter  was 

at  once  enndled  in  that,  styled  of  Athlone,  manshed  with  it  to 

Piedmont  in  1692,  joined  Cadnat  in  May,  1693,  and  in  the 

October  of  that  year,  was  at  the  bottle  of  the  *Val  de 

Marseilles,*  in  which  his  nncle  receiyed  a  mortal  wound.     He 

afterwards  served  on  the  Rhine,  until,  his  Begiment  having 

been  disbanded  at  the  peace  of  Byswick,  this  young  oflBcer 

volunteered  in  the  Polish  service  under  Marshal  Due  de  Cioy , 

in  the  rank  of  Lieutenant.    The  Due  presented  him  to  Peter 

the  Great,  who  was  then  in  alliance  with  Poland,  and  the 

Czar  took  him  into  his  own  service,  in  which  he  obtained  a 

majoriiy  in  1705,  and  a  Lieutenant-Colonelcy  in  the  following 

year.      In  1708  he  was  promoted  to  the  command  of  the 

Siberian  Begiment  of  Lifiintry,  and  joined  the  Griand  Army. 

On  the  first  of  January,  1709,  he  commanded  the  right  wing 

and  acted  as  a  Brigadier  at  the  great  Battle  of  Pultowa, 

where  he  was  wounded.      In  1710  he  distinguished  himsdf 

in  the  attack  on  Biga^  and  in  the  following  year  was  made 

Mtgor^Genend,  and  after  a  long  and  active  military  life,  he 

waS)  in  1737,  appointed  to  command  an  ei:pedition  into  the 

Crimea.     Crossing  an  arm  of  the  sea  (he  writes)  near  Arahat^ 

we  marched  and  took  Perekop^  and  blew  up  the  fortiJicaHone. 

He  died  in  Livonia  in  1751,  Grovemor  of  that  Province.    This  | 

was  the  general  who,  according  to   Ferrar,*  *^  taught  Hie 

Sueaiane  to  beat  the  army  of  the  King  of  Sweden^  and  to 

become  from  the  worst  some  of  the  best  soldiers  of  Europe* 

*  History  qf  Limerick^  p.  347. 


CATBNAdH'S  INFA17TBT.  393 

Before  the  battle  of  Pultowa  he  adyised  the  Czar  to  send 
orders  that  every  soldier  should  reserve  his  fire  until  he  came 
within  a  few  yards  of  the  enemy ;  in  consequence  of  which 
Charles  the  Twelfth  was  there  totally  defisated,  losing  in  that 
single  action  the  advantages  of  nine  campaigns  of  glory,  and 
narrowly  escaping  being  taken  prisoner." 

A  son  of  this  Count  Peter  was  Joseph-Francis-Maurice, 
Count  de  Lacy,  bom  in  1725  at  St.  Petersburgh,  and 
educated  at  Vienna.  He  made  his  first  campaign  in  the 
Austrian  army  in  Italy  during  the  year  1744,  where  he  had 
three  hoi^ses  shot  under  him  at  the  battle  of  Velletri«  At  the 
siege  of  Maestricht  in  1748,  he  received  the  rank  of  ColoileL 
He  distinguished  himself  against  Prusda  in  the  seven  years^ 
war ;  in  1762  received  the  baton  of  Marshal  from  the 
Emperor's  emu  hand,  and  in  the  same  year  served  with  Con- 
siderable eclat  in  the  war  between  Austria  and  Prussia.  In 
1801  he  died  at  Vienna,  where  the  Emperor  Joseph  the 
Second)  to  whom  he  left  all  his  property,  caused  a  bust  to  be 
erected  to  his  memory  in  the  hall  of  the  Chancery  of  the 
Council  of  War.  Of  this  latter  individual  Wiuxall  writes* 
in  1778,  '*  Marshal  Lacy  is  now  approaching  his  sixtieth  year; 
when  young,  he  must  have  been  very  handsome.  Though  he 
has  been  six  times  wounded  by  musket  balls,  he  enjoys  perfect 
health,  and  preserves  a  youthftd  appearance.  He  was  bom  in 
Buseoa,  son  of  the  fiunous  Marshal  Lacy,  who  in  conjunction 
with  Munich  commanded  the  Muscovite  armies  against  the 
Turks,  and  obtained  so  many  victories  over  them  in  the  last 
years  of  the  Empress  Anne^  It  was  in  that  great  school  he 
learned  the  art  of  war.  I  have  heard  him  say  that  his  fitther 
sent  him  to  study  at  Legnitz  in  Silesia,  and  afterwards  at 

*  Memoirs  o/the  Court  o/BirHn^  yoL  1,  p.  178. 


894  KIK6  JA]fX8*8  UtSH  ASMT  LIST. 


ViemuL  In  1740,  about  the  time  ot  Mem  Thcreee's 
eooeMon,  he  entefed  the  Auetrian  eenioe  es  an  Ensgn  in  the 
Begiment  of  Count  (afterwaida  Ifanhal)  Brown,  who  waa 
killed  at  die  batde  <^  Pngne.  Having  distii^^iiiflhed  himadf 
hj  a  thonaUnd  acts  of  penonal  oooiage,  actiTitj,  and  abifityi 
he  rose  so  lapdly  that  at  the  oonunenoement  of  the  war  of 
1756  he  waa  abeady  a  C<dond«  and  aoon  became  a  Mqor- 
GreneraL'* 

Another  Grenenil  Manrice  de  Lacy,  bom  in  Limeriok  in 
1740,  was  invited  to  Bnssia  hy  his  lehtiTe,  the  aibrMaid 
Mainhal  Peter,  and  entered  that  service  when  but  ten  yean 
old.  He  served  under  Suwarrorw  in  the  Italian  campaign  6f 
1799,  in  campaigns  against  the  Turks,  and  also  in  the  Crimea. 
He  died  in  1820,  unmarried^ — >-Of  Lacys  in  Spain,  Francis 
Anthony  Lacy,  Count  de  Lacy,  was  a  £unous  Geneial  and 
Diplomatist;  bom  in  1731,  oommenoed  his  military  csieer  as 
an  Ensign  in  the  Irish  Infimtty  Regiment  of  Ultonia;  was 
rmsed  to  be  a  Colonel  in  1762,  and  a  Commander  of  Artillery 
in  1780,  when  he  was  employed  at  the  oelebrated  siege  of 
Gibraltar.  After  the  peace  of  Utrecht  in  1783,  he  Was  cott- 
stituted  Mimster  Plenipotentiaiy  in  Sweden  and  Bussia,  and 
died  at  Barcelona  in  1792.  He  had  married  a  dau^ter  of  the 
Marquis  d' Abbeville,  by  whom  he  left  a  son,  Captain*6enend 
of  Artillery  to  his  Most  Cathcdic  Majesty;  and  a  daughter, 
who  married  '*  the  Marquis  of  Canada,  originally  Irish,  of  the 
ancient  family  of  Terry  i""  [In  the  Spanish  service  at  the  time 
of  the  war  against  Napoleon  the  First,  Don  Luis  Lacy  Was  a 
very  distinguished  officer  and  Governor  of  Catalonia.] 


CAVSNAaH'S  INFANTBT.  895 


CAPTAIN  WALTER  AND  ROBERT  ESMONDE- 

This  name  is  of  Norman  extnction,  '  Esmon'  and  *  Sieur 
Eemon*  appearing  on  sundry  early  records.  In  Weicford, 
more  especiaUy^  it  is  traceable  from  the  time  of  Edward  the 
First,  who,  in  1303,  projecting  his  invasion  of  Scotland,  com* 
missioned  Henry  'Estorand/  who  then  held  the  house  of 
Knights  Templars  at  Eilbarry,  to  provide  ships  in  the 
harbour  of  Wexford  and  in  the  adjouung  havens,  to  be  in 
readiness  to  pass  over  thence  in  the  service  of  that  campaign* 
In  1349  John  Esmonde  was  consecrated  Bishop  of  Ferns,  from 
which  see  he  was  ati^erwards  translated  to  Emly.  In  1371 
Thomas  Estmonde  was  Constable  of  Wexford  Castle ;  and  in 
1405  John  Esmond,  styled  of  London,  was  goldsmith  and 
jeweller  to  King  Henry  the  Fourth. 

About  the  year  1569  John  Esmonde,  the  founder  of  the 
existing  line  of  Baronets,  and  then  head  of  this  family,  was 
settled  at  Johnstown  in  the  County  of  Wexford,  a  property 
which  by  forfeiture  and  alienation  passed  to  the  family  of 
Grogan ;  but  has  since  by  nuurriage  reverted  to  the  present 
representative  of  the  old  proprietary-^Sir  Thomas  Esmonde. 
In  the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth  flourished  Laurence  Esmonde, 
great  grandson  of  the  above  John  of  1569,  of  whom  and 
his  family,  a  Brief  Description  of  the  Barony  of  Forthj 
written  in  1684  for  Sir  William  Petty,  and  now  or  lately  in 
the  possession  of  Sir  Thomas  Phiffips  of  Middlehill,  makes 
especial  mention,  as  that  he  *^  during  his  minority  continued  a 
'  martialist,'  in  the  Low  Countries  of  Germany,  the  fiunous 
academy  of  military  discipline  and  good  literature,  the  only 
theatre  of  warlike  stratagems  and  heroic  exploits,  wherein  he 


396  KINO  JAKEB'S  IRISH  ABKY  LIST. 

became  an  excellent  proficient/'  &c.  He  was  afterwards 
employed  by  Queen  Elizabeth  in  Holland,  and  in  Ireland  in 
the  wars  of  the  Pale;  was  knighted  by  Sir  Heniy  Sidney  in 
1603 ;  had  a  grant  to  him  and  his  then  wife  Ellen  Butler,  the 

grand-daughter  of  the  Earl  of  Ormonde^  and  widow  of 

Sherlock,  of  various  rectories  and  titiies  in  the  Counties  of 
Tippeiary,  Kilkenny,  and  Cork;  a  further  grant  in  1611  of 
lands  and  rights  of  patronage  in  Wlcklow  and  Wexford;  and 
in  1617  he  passed  patent  for  the  lands  of  Lemenagh,  other* 
wise  Limberick,  with  other  hinds,  mountains,  rights  of  fisheiy, 
&c,  in  the  latter  county,  the  premises  to  be  treated  the  manor 
of  Esmonde,  with  courts  leet  and  baron,  markets,  and  fairs* 
Serving  in  Connaught,  he  afterwards  so  distinguished  himself 
by  zeal  and  activity,  that  in  1622  he  was  raised  to  the  Peerage 
as  Lord  Esmonde,  Baron  of  Limberick,*  County  of  Wexford. 
He  had,  in  early  life,  married  a  Catholic  lady  of  the  name  of 
O'Fflahertie,  by  whom  he  had  a  son  Thomas ;  but  on  the 
suggestion  that  this  marriage  was  ill^al,  he  having  been  a 
conformist,  Lord  Esmonde,  without  taking  any  legal  steps  to 
annul  it,  took  to  his  second  wife  the  beforementioned  Ellen 
Butler,  by  whom,  however^  he  had  no  issue. 

Lord  Esmonde  sat  in  the  Lrish  Parliament  of  1634  as  a 
Peer,  and  was  one  of  the  nobles  who  attended  the  unfortunate 
Lord  Strafford  in  the  memorable  procession  to  St.  Patrick's 
Cathedral,  being  of  the  Privy  Council  of  Ireland.  During 
the  ensuing  civil  war,  the  custody  of  the  fort  of  Duncannon 
was  entrusted  to  him,  then  '  an  old  but  e^tperienced  officer** 
He  was  compelled,  however,  to  surrender  it  in  March,  1644, 
to  Gkneral  Preston,  upon  obtaining  quarter  and  sufferance  for 

.1      I      11 — — - — "■"■^ — —    -   —     —  -  I 

*  This  title  was  afterwards,  with  the  Earldom  of  Gasdemain,  oonftrred 
by  Charles  IL  upon  Boger  Pahner,  husband  of  a  Kojal  fiiToorite* 


cayenaqh's  intantrt-         397 

life  and  goods.  The  disaster,  however,  so  sorely  affected  him 
that  he  died,  'worn  out  with  age*  and  vezation,  within  a 
short  time  after;  having,  by  a  will  executed  immediately 
previously,  directed  his  interment  '  in  the  chapel  he  had 
built  at  Limbericke,'  and  bequeathed  all  his  estates,  upwards 
of  seventy  townlands,  with  advowsons,  manors,  rectories,  and 
fisheries  (after  some  prior  limitations),  to  Laurence,  the  eldest 
bom  of  the  aforesaid  Thomas,  in  tail-male.  This  Thomas 
had  been  created  a  Baronet  in  1628,  during  his  Other's 
life,  and  under  the  domestic  circunistances  alluded  to,  and 
the  troubles  of  the  period,  he  never  claimed  the  Baronage  on 
his  father's  death.  He  attended  the  Council  of  Kilkenny  in 
1646,  when  the  Nuncio  advised  that  in  all  military  affairs 
within  their  cognizance,  Sir  Thomas  Esmonde  should  be 
taken  into  consultation.  Jle  was  consequently,  by  Crom^ 
well's  Act  of  1652,  excepted  from  pardon  for  life  and  estate. 
The  Act  of  Settlement,  however,  directed  that  he  should 
be  restored  to  his  prindpal  seat  and  2,000  acres  of  land, 
exclusive  of  those  portions  of  the  family  estates  then  in 
the  possession  of  the  Duke  of  Albemarle  or  his  tenants. 
Many  subsequent  confirmatory  patents,  from  Charles  the 
Second  to  men  of  the  'new  interest'  in  Wexford  contains 
savings  of  the  rights  of  Sir  Thomas,  as  also  of  Laurence  his 
son,  afterwards  the  second  Baronet,  who  in  1687  was  Sheriff 
for  the  County  of  Carlow ;  in  the  year  after  which  he  died. 

The  Outlawries  of  1791  comprise  Thomas  Esmonde  of 
Wexford,  William  of  Johnstown,  and  John  of  Ferrybank, 
all  in  that  County.  This  John  appears  identical  with  John 
who  aftervrards  succeeded  as  the  fourth  in  the  line  of  the 
Baronets,  and  with  an  individual  of  the  same  name  who, 
afler  the  Bevolution,  passed  over  to  the  Continent,  and 
served  in  the  Spanish  Army  as  Captain  of  a  Begiment  of 


A 


898  KISa  JA1IB8*8  CBISH  ASMT  LIST. 

Dngoons,  under  the  Manhal  Duke  of  Berwick.  Two  con* 
Menikl  and  ftmiBar  fetters,  from  die  son  of  this  illostrioiis 
coauiMuider  to  Captain  John  Eanonde,  haye  been  shown  to 
the  ccmijMler  of  this  work.  The  first  of  6th  Novembery  1733, 
Irom  Baroel<MDa  c^wns,  **  A  commisaon,  dear  Jack,  has  been 
given  me,  which  obliges  me  to  go  off  to-morrow  morning, 
and  I  can  assore  yon  I  am  very  sorry  to  part  yoa  withoot 
sedng  yon;  bat  since  it  cannot  be,  I  will  tell  yon  at  least 
in  this  letter  what  yon  are  to  do.**  (The  writer  dien  gives 
directions  as  to  the  ronte,  for  the  march  of  Horse  and  Dragoons 
dux>agh  France  to  the  seat  of  war)  **  When  yon  come  near 
Avignon,  yon  can  take  a  trip  thence  to  see  the  Duke  of 
Ormonde,  and  if  yon  find  there  a  cook,  that  peihaps  will  be 
sent  ftom  Paris  for  me  to  the  Duke  of  Ormonde,  yon  will 
take  him  along  with  yon.  ...  I  am  persnaded  yon  will 
take  eara  the  horse  shonld  be  embarked  in  good  ships,  and 
yon  may  be  sore  that  Marvillao,  Maredo,  Ac.,  as  also 
Mahony,  will  render  yoa  all  the  services  that  depend  on 
them.  ...  I  believe  that,  when  yoa  have  once  passed 
the  Bhone,  it  will  not  be  amiss  that  yoa  should  march  cm 
before  with  the  horse  and  mules,  to  the  plaoe  where  yon 
are  to  embark,  that  you  may  rest  them  for  some  days  befixre 
embarking;  bat  inform  before^hand  whether  you  aie  to  go  off 
from  Antibe  or  Toulon,  for  it  is  not  as  yet  well  resdved 
upon.  Ac.,  &c.  .  •  Most  fkithfnlly  yours,  Laria.'* — The 
letter,  so  signed  while  his  fi^ther  lived,  is  contrasted  with  his 
signature  to  the  second,  of  the  20th  February,  1736,  when, 
the  old  Duke  having  died  he  ngns,  ^  Berwick.*  It  is  wiittoi 
from  Naples:  *'My  health,  God  be  praised,  is  very  good, 
and  I  want  nothing  but  fair  weather  to  *  make*  a  little 
exerttse;  great  talk  of  peace,  and  if  so,  we  shall  soon  return 
home.**    .    .    .    This  Duke  died  at  Naples  in  1738,  leaving 


CATSNAGH'S  mPANTRT.  899 

issue  as  mentioned,  ante  p.  30.  His  correspondent,  Captain 
John  Esmonde,  had  long  previously  entered  the  Spanish 
service  as  a  Cadet,  was  on  oonunission  in  1719t  and  raised  to 
a  Captaincy  in  1734.  After  the  death  of  the  third  Baronet, 
he  sought,  in  1739,  a  passport  to  his  native  country,  '  to  take 
care  of  his  private  concerns,*  which  was  gmnted  under  the 
official  seal  on  the  28th  of  May  in  that  year.  Accordingly, 
his  claim  having  been  allowed,  he  died  the  fourth  Baronet 
in  1758,  as  recorded  in  Burke's  Baronetage.  Sir  Walter, 
the  brother  and  successor  of  Sir  John,  closed  the  elder  line  of 
this  Baronetcy,  he  leaving  no  n^e  issue.  His  daughter  and 
sole  heiress  married  Staniskus  Maximiliaa  James  Mc  Mahon, 
of  the  County  of  Clare,  by  whom  she  had  issue  a  son  and  a 
daughter;  but  the  Baronetcy  passed  to  the  h^  male  of  the 
second  son  of  the  first  Baronet,  viz.,  James  Esmond  of 
BaUynestra,  and  is  now  boroe  by  his  son  and  heix«  Sir 
Thomas  Esmonde,  a  Deputy  I^ieutenaat  and  Privy  CounciUor. 
Patrick  Chevalier  d'Esmonde,  a  Colonel  in  the  Austrian 
service,  was  during  a  considerable  time  a  captive  in  Turkey: 
he  left  an  only  daughter  ai^d  hdvess,  who  manied  Charles 
Count  Kavanagh  (of  the  fiuoily  of  Borris),  a  General  of 
Cavalry  in  the  Imperial  Army.* 


^^■lOT 


[CAPTAIN  NICHOLAS  WABBEN.] 

This  officer  does  not  appear  upon  the  present  Army  Lbt, 
although  his  commistton  bears  date  on  the  1st  of  December, 
1S88.  He  was  of  a  fiimily  long  previously  settled  at  Corduff, 
before  alluded  to,  ante^  p.  84,  &c, 

*  Burke*»  Peerage  and  Baronetage^  p.  97B. 


400  KIKG  JAMSS'S  IBX8B  ABMT  LIST. 


CAPTAIN  NICHOLAS  NXCKSON. 

Hb  is  described  in  his  Attainder  of  1696;  as  of  Newtown, 
County  Wexford. 


»  *KM 


LIEUTENANT  BONAVENTURE  KINSELAGH. 

The  O'Kinsellaghs  were  a  numerous  and  territorial  Sept 
in  the  Counties  of  Carlow  and  Wexford;  Ortelius^s  Map 
espedally  locates  them  over  the  northern  part  of  the  latter 
County.  When,  after  the  English  Inra^on,  Henry  ike 
Second  made  a  political  sojourn  at  Drogheda,  he  there,  as 
recorded  by  Sir  John  Davis,  reoeiyed  the  subnussion  of 
several  native  Chiefs,  and  amongst  them  of  the  Chief  of  the 
Kinsekghs.  In  1357  John  'KenseUgh*  was  appointed 
Receiver  of  a  subsidy  charged  on  tiie  County  of  Kildare; 
while,  in  the  assignment  of  the  dower  of  the  widow  of  David 
Wogan,  Knight,  over  a  large  tract  of  that  County  in  1420 
Nicholas  Kinselagh  is  set  down  as  one  of  the  tenants.  When 
Richard  the  Second  made  his  second  rash  visit  to  this  country 
it  is  especially  recorded  that  he  marched  through  the  country 
of  the  Kinselaghs,  &c.,  'then  waste.'  The  only  individual 
of  the  name  attainted  in  1642,  was  Dermott  Kinselagh  of 
Ballaghmone,  County  of  Kildare.  Eneas  '  Eansly '  of  Bally* 
nacargy  was  a  member  of  the  Supreme  Council  at  Kilkenny 
in  1646 ;  while  the  above  officer  is  described  in  the  Inqtii- 
sition  taken  on  his  Attainder,  as  of  Ferns  in  the  County  of 
Wexford;  at  which  place  a  Turlo^  Kinsellagh  was  then 


CAVEKAan'S  INFANTET.  401 

also  outlawed,  with  Arthur  Kinsellagh  of  Ballyduff  in  the 
same  County.  One  of  this  name  ws^  an  Ensign  in  Colonel 
Art  Mac  Mahon's  Infiiatry, 


■■     9 


LIEUTENANT  WILLIAM  BOOLE, 

This  officer  is  desoribed,  in  the  Inquisition  on  his  outlawry, 
as  of  Clonegal,  in  the  County  of  Carlow. 


■■  ■!■ 


LIEUTENANT  WILLIAM  FISHER. 

In  1611  Sir  Edward  Fisher,  Knight,  had  grants  of  various 
rectories,  castles,  mills,  fisheries,  lands,  (Sx^.,  in  the  Counties 
of  Louth,  DubUH)  l^dare,  Clare,  Cork,  Limerick,  Tipperary, 
Mayo,  Meath,  Kerry,  and  Desmond;  as  had  Maudlii^,  widow 
of  Edward  Fisher  of  Cradockstown  in  Kildare,  of  878  acres 
in  Kilkenny  in  1668;  and,  in  the  following  year,  Henry 

Fisher  passed  patent  for  487   in  Meath. The  Roll  of 

Adjudications  for  the  *■  1649*  officers  has  upon  it  the  names 
of  Captain  Henry  and  Lieutenant  Richard  Fisher.  Nothing 
however  has  been  ascertained  worthy  of  uolice  respecting  the 
officer  here  in.  commission, 


VOL.  II.  2  D 


40S 


BEGDCENTS  OF  INFANTBY. 


OOU>XEL  THOMAB  SUTLERS. 


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EdwBid  Fits-Gcnld. 
Jamm 


Gttvrtt  Gongh. 


Jolui  Iittnbflrt- 
Edwird  Manderilb. 


PUBpWalL 
HicUtt 


■KM  ■■■■■!      AQOIQ. 


Rkteid  AnUttdL 

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JohnHowkj. 


JtllB 


JoknGovgh. 
Janw 


TiAte. 


Edmand  Bimj. 
John  FHs  Mrariot. 


BcT. F•IlM^  Clqpfawi. 


bxttiiEk's  jnfantrt.  403 


COLONEL  THOMAS  BUTLER. 

Of  this  noble  iamilj  and  Colonel,  see  ante,  at  Lord  Gralmoy^s 
Horse, 


[LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  DE  BUSBY.] 

This  officer  is  inserted  in  tHe  Army  List,  on  tHe  authority 
of  tHe  Appendix  to  King's  State  of  the  Protestants,  The 
Lieutenaot-Colonel  in  the  British  Museum  List  is Wat- 
son. 


MAJOR PRICE. 

This  name    does  not  appear  on  the   Attainders. The 

custody  of  sundry  premises  in  Meath  -wss  committed  by 
Henry  the  Fifth  to  John  Price  in  1420.  In  1660  Thomas 
Price,  a  native  of  Wales,  but  educated  in  Dublin,  succeeded 
to  the  See  of  Elildaie ;  he  was  translated  to  Cashel  in  1667. 
In  1660  another  native  of  Wales,  Robert  Price,  who  was 
also  educated  in  Dublin,  was  appointed  Bishop  of  Ferns; 
while  Arthur  Price,  an  '  alumnus  *  of  Dublin  College,  was  in 
1729  translated  from  the  see  of  Clonfert  to  that  of  Leighlin 
and  Ferns,  and  in  1733  was  elevated  to  Meath.  An  Ensign 
Edward  Price  appears  on  the  Roll  of  the  '  1649 '  officers. 


404.  KING  James's  ibish  asmt  list. 


CAPTAIN  THOMAS  KEHOE. 

A  FAMILY  of  this  name  was  then  and  previously  located 
in  the  County  of  Wicklow,  and  is  to  be  distinguished  from 
the  Keoghs  or  Mac  Keoghs  of  Connaught,  although  those  of 
Wicklow  were  sometimes  spelt  alike.  In  1534,  say  the 
Masters,  *  Maolmuire  Mac  Keogh,  the  presumptive  chief 
professor  of  poetry  in  Leinster,  a  man  of  learning  and  of 
extensive  knowledge  in  poetry,  and  who  kept  a  good  house 
of  hospitality,  was  accidentally  killed  by  his  mother's  brethren, 
the  sons  of  O'Toole ;'  while  other  native  annalists  make 
mention  of  many  Mac  Keoghs,  as  then  Bards  of  the  O^Bymes. 
Accordingly  of  the  attainted  in  1642  are  recorded  Thomas 
Mac  Maolmuire  M'Kehoe,  and  William  McShane  McFarrel 
McKehoe  of  Knockandarragh,  County  of  Wicklow ;  while 
there  were  outlawed  in  1691  John  ^Keagho'  of  Ballymu- 
raroe,  in  the  same  county,  and  Humphrey  '  Keagho '  of 
Ballybeddin,  in  the  adjoining   County  of  „ Wexford.     More 

in  conformity  with  the  latter  orthography  was Keoghoe, 

an  Ensign  in  Sir  Maurice  Eustace's  Infantry. 


CAPTAIN  GARRETT  GOUGH. 

This  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of  Edward 
the  Second;  in  that  of  Henry  the  Sixth,  John  '  Goghe'  was 
a  Justice  in  eyre.  In  1601  Edmund  Gough  was  knighted  by 
the  President  of  Munster,  Lord  Carew,  for  his  services  in 


^gmmmmmtmmm^^mm^^^^B^^gm^^ia^m^^^^'m^^p^    «'    -^  ■    u- 


butleb's  infantry.  405 

that  province,  and  especially  at  the  battle  of  Eansale.  In 
1626  Dr.  Francis  Gough  succeeded  to  the  see  of  Limerick. 
The  Attainders  of  1642  record  the  names  of  William  Gough 
of  BaUycommon,  County  of  Wicklow,  and  Patrick  Gough  of 
Arklow.  At  the  Kilkenny  Assembly  in  1646,  Patrick  Gough 
of  Kilmanahan  was  one  of  the  Commons.  In  King  James's 
Parliament  of  Dublin  (1689)  Edward  Gough  sat  as  one  of 
the  Representatives  of  Youghal. 

The  above  officer  is  described  on  the  Attainder  of  1691, 
as  Grarrett  ^Goff'  of  Kilmanahan,  County  of  Waterford;  a 
son  or  i^tive,  it  would  seem,  of  the  Patrick  who  sat  in  the 
Council  of  Kilkenny.  With  him  were  then  outlawed  Ed* 
ward  *  Goff,'  merchant  of  Cork,  and  Edward  '  Goff  *  of 
Youghal,  Aldermani  Ignatius  Gough  also  was  a  forfeiting 
proprietor  in  Dublin,  as  was  Patt  Gough  in  the  County  of 
Meath. 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  ANKITTEL. 

So  early  as  in  the  reign  of  Richard  the  Second,  the  name  of 
^  Angetale*  is  of  Irish  record.  In  the  time  of  the  Protect 
torate,  2,755  acres  of  land  in  Connanght  were  assigned  by 
the  Commissioners  at  Loughrea  to  John  AnkiteU,*  and  in 
1667  a  Matthew  Ankitell  had  a  grant,  confirmatory  of  a 
Cromwellian  certificate,  of  upwards  of  6,000  acres  in 
Monaghan  and  Fermanagh;  he  afterwards  fell  in  Ulster, 
in  1689,  fighting  for  King  WiUiam.  Matthew's  lineal  heir 
male,  William  of  Ankitell  Grove,  was  lately  a  Deputy  Lieu- 


♦  Lodge's  Peerage^  voL  2,  p.  197. 


406  KING  JTAMBS'S  IBI8H  ABMLT  UST. 

tenant  of  Monaglian.  The  officer  here  introdiiced  appears  to 
have  been  of  BallinakiU,  in  the  Queen*6  County,  off  which  a 
John  Anldttd  had  liveiy  on  coming  of  age  in  1640. 


CAPTAIN  THOMAS  SHEE. 

The  Sept  of  O'Shee  chdms  descent  from  Conaire^  who  was 
Eing  of  Irehmd  for  seven  years  of  the  second  century.  In 
the  course  of  time  it  divided  itself  into  two  branches,  one  of 
Tipperary,  the  other  of  Ealkenny:  and  these  became  agun 
subdivided  into  several  collateral  branches,  Tipperary  being 
always,  (says  an  old  manuscript  genealogy),  the  '  primordial 
radix/  This  document  professes  to  give  the  liiiiSage  of  the 
Shoes  of  the  Nore  within  Ejlkenny  through  forty  genra»tions 
from  Sheagha,  who  gave  name  to  the  fiunily,  down  to  John- 
Joseph,  son  of  Edmund  O'Shea  by  EUen  Meagher  of 
Tipperary. 

In  1608,  on  an  inquiry  as  to  the  limits  of  the  Borough  of 
Callan  in  Ejlkenny,  Sir  Bichard  *  Sh^,*  Knight,  claimed  '  an 
easement  for  horses  and  carriages,  &c.,  to  ihe  market  of 
Kilkenny,  in  right  of  himself  and  others,  whose  estate  he  hath 
from  Bonestown  in  the  county  unto  the  town  of  Kilkenny, 
and  the  parish  church  of  'St.  Kenyes^*  which  way  or  easement 
the  said  Sir  Bichard  saith  that  he  still  enjoys.*  This  Knight 
died  at  Bonestown  in  the  August  of  that  year;  when,  on 
inquisition^  he  was  found  to  have  been  seised  of  very  extensive 
possessions  in  said  County.  He  left  issue  Luke  of  Kilkenny, 
his  eldest  son^  who  had  livery  of  his  said  father's  estates  in 
1609 ;  and  Thomas,  his  second  son,  sometime  Mayor  of 
Kilkenny.  This  latter  married  Ellen,  daughter  of  Nicholas 
Bobin  of  Waterford,  by  whom  he  had  no  issue,  and,  dying  in 


butleb's  infantry  407 

1636,  was  buried  in  St.  Mary's  Church,  Kilkenny.  Luke, 
the  eldest  son  of  Sir  Richard,  married  Ellen,  daughter  of 
Edmund,  Viscount  Mountgarrat;  by  whom  he  had,  besides 
seven  daughters,  two  sons,  1.  Robert,  who  married  Margaret, 
daughter  and  co-heitess  of  Richard  Masterson  of  Ferns, 
County  of  Weiford,  Knight  \  2.  Edmund,  who  married 
Dorothea,  daughter  of  Nicholas  Dormer  of  Boss,  County  of 
Wexford. 

At  the  Supreme  Council  of  Ejlkenny,  Edward  and  Robert, 
sons  of  William  Shoe  of  that  City,  sat  as  members.  The 
Declaration  of  Royal  Gratitude^  in  the  Act  of  Settlement 
(1662),  includes  Ensign  George  Shee  of  Kilkenny.  In  1667 
Marcus  and  Richard  Shee  had  a  confirmatory  giant  of  823 
acres  in  Edlkenny,  as  had  Ridiard  of  189  acres  more  there  in 
1678 ;  in  which  latter  year  John  Shea  had  a  similar  patent 
for  587  acres  in  Gkdway,  where  Richard  then  acquired  207 
acres,  with  877  in  Clare;  and  in  1680  John  Shea  passed 
patent  for  764  other  acres  in  Gralway,  and  804  in  Mayo.- 

Besides  the  above  officer,  -< Shea  was  a  Lieutenant  in  Sir 

John  Fitzgerald's  In&ntry ,  and  James  Shea  a  Quarter-Master 
in  Lord  Gkdmoy's  Horsei  The  Attainders  of  1691  include 
this  Captain,  described  as  Thomas,  son  of  John  Shea, 
merchant,  with  seven  other  cavaliers  of  the  name,  all  of 
the  City  of  Kilkenny,  one  of  whom  was  a  Lieutenant  in 
Colonel  Edward  Butler's  In&ntry.  At  the  Court  of  Claims, 
John  '  Shee,'  Ellen  Shee  his  sister,  Francis  Shee  and  Patrick 
Shee,  for  themselves,  and  as  executors  of  William  Shee, 
claimed  and  were  allowed  charges  affecting  the  County  of 
Kilkenny  estates  of  James  Shee ;  while  Henry  Shee  had  a 
similar  allowance  of  the  benefit  of  several  freehold  interests 
thereout:  Laurence  Shee  also  daimed  and  was  allowed  a 
charge  on  Kilkenny  lands  of  Samuel  Shee* 


408  KINO  JAMJBS'S  IRISH  ABMY  LIST. 


CAPTAINS  AMBROSE  AND  EDWARD 

MANDEVILLE. 

This  name  is  of  recotd  in  Ulster  firom  the  time  of  John  de 
Courcy's  inyanon,  when  some  of  the  fiunily  followed  his 
standard.  In  1302  Thomas  de  Mandeville,  *  of  Ireland,*  had 
a  treasury  order  for  £566  ISs.  4d.,  for  his  expenses  in  men, 
arms,  and  horses,  incurred  in  the  King's  first  expedition  to 
Scotland,  and  his  and  their  expenses  of  passage.  Philip  de 
'Mandewelle*  sued  a  possessory  writ  in  1309,  and|  in  the 
following  year,  Thomas  de  Maundevill  was  empowered,  with 
Richard  de  Burgo  Earl  of  Ulster,  to  treat  and  parley  with 
the  Irish  of  Ulster;  while  said  Philip^  with  Peter,  Thomas, 
and  John,  sons  of  Martin  de  Maundevill,  were  summoned  to 
the  Parliament  of  Ealkenny.  In  1325  King  Edward  the 
Second  granted  to  John  de  MandeyiUe,  the  ofiice  of  Sheriff 
of  Down  and  Newtown  during  pleasure,  with  such  fees  as 
other  Sheriffs  of  said  Counties  in  times  past  used  to  receive. 
In  1333  William  de  Burgo,  the  third  Earl  of  Ulster,  was 
murdered  by  Robert,  son  of  Richard  Mandeville  and  his 
servant,  near  the  fordsj  as  he  was  going  to  Camckfergus, 
being  then  aged  only  twenty-one  years*  In  1335  Henry  de 
Mandeville  had  liberates  for  his  services  in  Ulster  against  the 
Mac  Cartan,  as  also  for  relieving  Green-Castle  when  besieged. 
In  two  years  after,  however,  one  of  this  &mily,  having 
invaded  the  Isle  of  Man,  at  the  head  of  a  party  of  Scots,  and 
kept  occupation  thereof,  a  Royal  mandate  issued  for  sending 
soldiers  over  to  recover  same  from  him.  When,  in  1345, 
Walter  de  Bermingham  was  Lord  Justice  of  Ireland,  he  was 
empowered  to  grant  an  amnesty  and  receive  into  peace  as 


rw9mKii^''mm^fmrwT'^tm^^  I'm  j     j.i   i  u  i 


butleb's  infantry.  409 

well  English  as  Irish ;  the  Earl  of  Desmond,  however, 
Walter  his  son,  Philip  his  nephew,  and  Walter  de  Maundevill, 
Knight,  were  excepted  from  this  amnesty.  In  1386  the 
King  committed  to  William  Constantjn  the  custody  of  two- 
thirds  of  the  estates  of  Milo  Maundevill  of  MaundeviUstown, 
in  the  County  of  Louth,  during  the  minority  of  his  heir, 
while  Margaret,  his  widow,  having  married  Richard  Russell, 
sued  out  her  claim  on  the  remaining  third. 

Nothing,  however,  has  been  ascertained  worthy  of  notice 
respecting  the  above  officers  or  their  connections,  nor  do  they 
appear  on  the  Attainders. 


CAPTAIN  THOMAS  TIERNEY. 

A  Francis  '  Tirney,'  described  as  of  Ghdway,  merchant, 
alone  appeard  on  the  Attainders  of  1691. 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  LAMBERT. 

In  1618  died  Patrick  '  Lamporte,'  seised  of  Ballycrinigan  and 
other  lands  in  Wexford,  John  his  son  and  heir  being  then 
aged  forty  and  married ;  this  John  died  in  1638,  leaving 
Patrick  his  son  and  heir,  then  aged  twenty-six  and  unmarried. 
In  1624  died  James  Lamport,  seised  of  the  Castle  of  Bally- 
heire  and  sundiy  lands  in  Werford;  PhiUp,  hia  son  and  heir, 
being  then  aged  fourteen  years.  This  James  was  the  head  of 
the  Lamberts  of  Carnagh  in  that  County,  who  are  now  repre* 
sented   by   Henry   Lambert,    Esq«,   a   Deputy  Lieutenant 


410  KING  JAHS8'8  lEISH  ABHT  LIST. 

thereof,  and  for  some  time  one  of  its  Representatives  in  Par- 
liament. The  officer  here  under  consideration  iras  a  grand- 
son of  that  James  Lamport,  who  died  in  1624.  There  were 
attainted  in  1691,  Peter  '  Lamport'  of  Wexford,  Nicholas 
Lamport  of  Camagh,  and  Peter  of  Ballyhew  in  the  County 
of  Wexford.  A  Charles  Lambert  of  Aggard,  County  of 
Gralway,  was  also  at  this  time  a  forfeiting  proprietor;  on 
whose  estate  John  French  and  Jane  his  wife  claimed  and 
were  allowed  an  estate  for  her  life. 


« *i^. 


LIEUTENANT  PHILIP  WALL, 

So  early  as  in  the  reign  of  Edward  the  Third  the  name  of 
'  de  Vale'  is  ijecorded,  in  the  County  of  Carlow  principally. 
An  Edward  Wall^  holding  t^ous  lands  therein,  was 
attainted  in  1641.  In  the  declaration  of  thanks'  clause  in 
1662,  Ensign  Piers  Wall  was  included,  '  for  senices  beyond 
the  sea;'  while  Patrick  Wall,  described  as  son  and  hdr  of 
Uhck  deceased^  and  grandson  of  the  aforesaid  Edward,  had, 
in  1680,  a  confirmatory  grant  of  1,392  acres  in  Carlow,  and 
288  in  Kildare.  In  the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth  the  name 
was  influential  in  Waterford,  and,  in  the  reign  of  her 
successor,  Grartet  '  Wale'  died  seised  of  estates  there,  which 
only  recentiy  passed  from  his  deseendantSi  This  Lieutenant 
Philip,  as  appears  by  the  Inquisition  for  his  attainder,  was  a 
merchant  of  Dro^eda«  Six  other  Walls  were  outlawed  at 
the  same  time,  as  of  Dublin,  Carlow,  and  Limerick  Counties 
respectively ;  while  a  Sichard  Wall,  who  was  an  Ensign  in 
Lord  Louth's  Infantry,  does  not  appear  on  the  proscription 
BolL    The  dhief  Irish  officer  of  this  name  on  the  continent 


BUTLEB'8  infantey.  411 

was  Richard  Wall  of  the  Waterford  line,  who  was  the 
celebrated  prime  minister  of  Spain  during  the  reign  of 
Ferdinand  the  Sixth  and  Charles  the  Third. 


LIEUTENANTS  RICHARD  AND  JOHN  TOBIN. 

This  name,  corrupted  from  St.  Aubyn,  came  from  France 
to  England  with  William  the  Conqueror,  and  is  traceable  in 
Ireland  from  the  Anglo-Norman  invasion:  it  was  espedallj 
established  in  the  Counties  of  Tipperary  and  Kilkenny.  In 
1382  William,  son  of  Thomas^  and  Richard,  son  of  David 
'Tobyn'  were  appointed  guardians  of  the  peace  in  the  latter 
county ;  and,  in  1419,  the  King  committed  to  John  Tobyn, 
the  offices  of  water-beilly,  searcher  and  guardian  of  all  the 
harbours  and  sea-ports  on  the  coast  of  Cork.  The  Tobins  of 
the  Compsey  on  the  borders  of  Kilkenny  and  Tipperary  are 
characterbed  by  Clyn,  in  the  fourteenth  century,  as  a  restless 
and  turbulent  clan,  more  dreaded  by  the  English  settlers  than 
the  aboriginal  Irish.  In  1556  Robert  Tobin  was  port-reeve 
of  Irishtown-Kilkenny ;  as  was  Thomas  Tobin  in  1608  and 
Richard  in  1649,  while,  in  1557,  Francis  Tobin  died  Mayor 
of  Youghal.  In  1615  Edmund,  son  of  Walter  Tobin  of 
Keynaganach,  in  Tipperary^  surrendered  to  the  Crown  various 
lands  in  that  county,  with  the  object  of  obtaining  a  re-grant 
by  what  was  represented  as  a  more  assured  title.  This 
Edmund  married,  in  1638,  Margery,  daughter  of  Edward 
Tobin  of  Elllaghy  in  Kilkenny.  A  manuscript  book  of  obits 
in  the  collections  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  (F  iv.  18) 
supplies  seven  links  of  the  Tobins  of  this  Eallaghy  line  in 
the  seventeenth  century,  at  which  time  members  of  the  fiunily 
were  settled  thereabout,  at  Bally-tobin,  Leyrath,  (&o. 


412  KING  JTAMES'S  UUBH   AJUIT   LIST. 

Edward  Tobin  was  a  lieatenant  and  another  of  the  name 
Surgeon  in  Colonel   Dudley  BagMU'a  Infantry;   wlnle  in 

Colonel  Poroell's  Horse,  Tobin   was  a  Captain,   and 

another,  Quarter-^Iaster  in  Colonel  Hewaid  Qxhm^h's  R^- 
ment.  In  King  James  s  Parliament  of  Dablin,  James  Tobin 
sat  as  one  of  the  BepresentafiYes  for  the  Borough  of  Fethard, 
Tipperary ;  and  the  attunders  of  1691  include  with  him 
Pierce  of  Jerpoint  and  James  of  Killalow,  in  Kilkenny.  On 
the  remodelling  of  King  Jameses  Irish  forces  in  Bretagne, 
after  the  capitulation  of  Lamerick,  James  Tobin  was  appointed 
Major  of  Lord  GKdmoy's  B^iment  of  Horse. 


LIEUTENANT  BICHABD  MALONE- 

The  O'Malones,  a  very  andent  Irish  Sept,  are  oonsideiied  to 
have  been  a  branch  of  the  O'Connors,  Kings  of  Connaught; 
and  are,  on  old  topographical  records,  located  in  the  Baronies 
of  Brawney  and  Clonlonan,  County  of  Westmeath.  The 
Four  Masters  exhibit  them  in  frequent  succession  as  Abbots 
or  Bishops  of  Clonmacnoise.  On  the  Boll  of  Attainders  of 
1642  stand  the  names  of  John  Malone  of  Skerries,  derk; 
Christopher  of  Drogheda,  merchant;  and  William  JVIalone  of 
Lismullen,  Esq.  An  ancient  manuscript  mentions  those  of 
the  name  that  acted  in  that  Civil  War  as,  ^^  Young  Edmund 
Malone,  living  near  Athlone,  *a  notorious  rebel;'  James 
Malone  of  Ballinahone,  Bory  and  Thomas  Malone  of  the 
parish  of  Ejilbeggan,  Morres  Malone  of  the  King's  County, 
and  the  above  William  Malone  of  Lismullen."  This  latter 
was  one  of  the  influential  proprietors  who  attended  the  cele- 
brated meeting  of  the  Catholic  party  on  the  Hill  of  Crofly. 


BUTL£B*S   INPANTRT.  413 

In  King  James's  Parliament  of  Dublin,  Dermot  Malone 
eat  in  the  Peers  by  the  title  of  Baron  of  Glenmaliere  and 
Courchy ;  while  in  the  Commons,  Edmund  Malone  of  Bally- 
nahown,  Esq.,  and  Edmund  Malone,  barrister,  represented 
the  Barony  of  Athlone.  This  Edmund  of  Ballynahown  was 
a  Lieutenant  in  Colonel  Kichard  Grace's  Regiment  of  Horse, 
(not  included  in  this  List);  and  John  Malone  of  Cartrons 
was  a  Comet  of  Horse  in  the  same  service.  Anthony  Malone 
of  Ballynahown  was  also  a  Lieutenant  in  this  army.  A 
Christopher  Malone  was  at  this  time  Surveyor-General  in 
trust  for  Lady  Tyrconnel  and  her  daughter,  wife  to  Colonel 

Dillon. The  Malones  attainted  in  1691  were  Edward  of 

Lismullen,  County  of  Meath ;  Anthony  of  Ballynahown,  John 
and  Edmund  of  Cartrons,  Hugh  of  Mullingar,  Edward  of 
Dublin,  and  Patrick  and  John  of  Dromore,  County  of  Down. 
Edmund  Malone,  styled  of  ^Bathleigh,'  subsequently  obtained 
a  pardon  imder  the  Great  Seal.  Edmund,  the  barrister,  was 
one  of  those  who  in  1703  appeared  at  the  bar  of  the  Lish 
House  of  Commons,  together  with  Sir  Theobald  Butler  and 
Sir  Stephen  Kice,  to  protest  against  the  passing  of  the  'Act 
to  prevent  the  further  growth  of  Popery,'  as  subversive  of 
the  rights  secured  to  themselves  and  their  Roman  Catholic 
countrymen  by  the  Treaty  of  Limerick. — In  the  same  year  a 
ComSZ  of  the  Irish  House  of  Commons,  having  been 
appointed  to  inquire  touching  the  printing  and  publishing  of  a 
seditious  book,  entitled  the  Memoirs  of  King  James  the  Second^ 
they  examined  James  Malone  as  the  publisher,  and  John 
Brocas  as  the  printer  thereof;  when  they  reported  that  the 
book  contained  an  account  of  the  transactions  of  the  last  twelve 
years  of  the  life  of  James  the  Second,  with  the  circumstances 
of  his  death ;  that  James  Eustace  of  Yeandanstown  had  brought 
the  manuscript  over  from  England,  and  recommended  Malone 


414  KING  JAMES'S  IBISH  ABlfT  LIST. 

to  publish  it,  which  he  did,  and  sold  several  copies.     That  he 

sent  one  dozen  to Nihill  of  Limerick,  merchant,  another 

dozen  to  Nicholas,  son  of  Ambrose  Lynch  of  Gralway,  mer- 
chant; that  Sir  Stephen  Bice's  son  lately  bought  one:  that 
Brocas  printed  500  copies,  of  which  only  30  or  40  remained. 
£u8taoe  however,  having  been  examined,  denied  the  truth  of 
MaIone*s  evidence,  as  fiur  as  it  sought  to  inculpate  him;  the 
House  nevertheless  resolved  that  the  evidence  was  suffident 
against  Eustace,  Malone,  and  Brocas,  The  Attomey*6eneial 
was  accordingly  ordered  to  prosecute,  and  it  was  directed  that 
the  book  should  be  burnt  by  ihe  conmion  hangman. 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  HOWLEY, 

Ai/THOUOH  in  latter  years  this  name  has  been  borne  in 
England  by  an  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  and  in  Ireland 
is  of  respectability  in  the  counties  of  Mayo,  SUgo,  Tipperary, 
and  Limerick,  it  yet  does  not  appear  on  the  Attainders  of 
1641  or  1691;  and  is  not  otherwise  associated  with  the 
present  work  than  in  the  above  Lieutenant,  who,  as  the 
compiler  has  been  informed,  was  the  great  grand&ther  of  the 
present  Sei^eant  John  Howley.  The  name  of  *  Thomas 
Howley,'  however,  does  appear  on  the  Roll  of  those,  who 
fought  to  maintain  the  cause  of  King  Charles  in  Ireland,  until 
his  decapitatioa 


ENSIGN  MARCUS  QUIRKE. 

The  O'Cuiroes  (Quirkes),  or  Mac  Quirkes  were  an  ancient 
Sept  of  Munster.    In  1643  were  attainted  Teige  Mae  Quirke 


butleb's  infantbt.  415 

of  BaUjnnacquirke,  County  of  Cork,  with  Donell  and 
Cornelius,  his  sons.  Amongst  those  thanked  for  ^services 
beyond  the  seas,'  by  the  dauee  in  the  Act  of  Settlement 
80  often  alluded  to,  were  Ensigns  Fierce  and  William  Quirke 
of  the  County  of  Tipperary.  In  1686  Colonel  John  Bussell 
received  an  order  from  Tyreonnel  to  provide  for  sundry 
Officers  who  could  not  then  be  received  into  the  respective 
Regiments  of  the  army,  in  his  (Colonel  Bussell*s)  Begimaxts, 
duty  free,  and  to  place  them  in  their  respective  companies. 
One  of  the  Officers  nwied  for  this  service  waa  Ensign 
*  Mathew'  Quirke  * 


■.  .IF  ■ ' 


ENSIGN  JOHN  LUCKER, 


NoTHnco  has  been  ascertained  of  him  or  bis  family. 


ENSIGN  EDMUND  BEAY. 

The  name  of  De  Bray  occurs  on  the  Boll  of  Battle  Abbey, 
and  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of  King  John.  In 
1377  Stephen  'Braye*  was  one  of  those  summoned  to  attend 
the  Parliament  of  Castle-Dermot,  as  he  was  again  to  that 
of  Dublin  in  1381,  and  to  another  at  Naas  in  the  following 
year.  He  was  subsequently  constituted  Chief  Justice  of  the 
Common  Pleas,  and  in  1420  had  a  gi^aut,  according  to  the 
law  of  wardships,  of  the  '  maritagium,'  of  Thomas,  son  and 
h^  of  Thomas  Maurewarde,  Baron  of  Serine,  in  ten  years 

*  Singer*8  Correspondence  of  Lord  Clarendon^  t.  1,  p.  459. 


416  KING  JAMES'S  IBIgH  ABMT  LIgT.     . 

after  lie  had  the  custody  of  two  thirds  of  the  manor  of  Don- 

mow,  daring  a  minority,  soon  after  which  he  died. The 

Officer  here  under  consideration  appears  to  have  been  con- 
nected with  a  family  of  the  name  in  Oxfordshire;  firom 
which  county  Lord  Abingdon  wrote  in  June,  1685,  to  the 
Earl  of  Clarendon,  *'  I  had  forgot  to  tell  your  Lordship  that 
Mr.  Bray  was  the  second  gentleman  in  this  county  who  offered 
his  service  to  go  a  Tolunteer  with  me;  which  I  take  so  kindly 
that,  if  your  Lordship  thinks  fit  and  he  behaves  himself  well, 
I  will  hereafter  ^ve  him  some  command  in  the  Militia, 
wherein  his  father  was  Lieutenant^oloneL'^*  The  Diary 
of  Clarendon  in  September,  1688,  says,  '*  Sunday,  Mr.  Bray 
dined  with  me;  he  told  me  Lord  Abingdon  had  agreed  to 
set  him  up  as  one  of  the  Knights  for  this  County,  for  the 
Parliament  which  is  to  meet  in  November  next-^^f  A  JVIr. 
John  Bray  was  nominated  by  Eong  James  an  Alderman  in 
the  new  Charter  of  Clonmel;  he  afterwards  represented  that 
Borough  in  the  Parliament  of  Dublin,  and  was  attainted  in 
1691. 

'••    r  -       ■■  ■  ■  -■■I 

•  Smger's  Ccrre^pondenee^  v,  1,  p.  13^.  fl^l^"^  ▼•  2,  p.  187. 


BIB  JOHN  ?|TZ*a9BAIfD*0  INFAirrBT. 


417 


BEGIMJJNTg  Of  INPANTRT. 


SIB  JOHN  FITZ-GEBALD*St 


The  ColoneL 

John.  Bioiifli 
Lieutenant-Colonel . 

—  Fitz-QenOd, 
Ifajor. 

—  Staideton. 

Bagot 

O'Keefe. 

-*— Nugent. 
-^^Boche. 

I »      Bourke* 
_  Fits-GeiakL 
Gibbon. 

■!■■■  Monee* 

» ■-  Cietf^ 
CSuulai  MfCaitie. 


LjituitMMUtm 
-Uey. 


.^-Gomin, 


9    '  Stephenson. 
Bany. 

TT— 'Antinin.' 

. Gibbon. 

■-^Gannui. 
.^1 — LayaHin. 
^-.^Shea. 
—  SaDivan. 
I '.I    ■  MjBginn. 
Keadagh  Leaiy. 

M--  MacDonoogh,  Smywi^ 


Brian. 

Kennedy. 
Bagot 


-------- ---r- 

I  Tomge. 
^ — Conneil. 
^ — Laoj. 

CaUahan. 

-  — -, 

I    ■  Hefbert. 

O^eale. 

Thomas  Donovan. 


VOL.  II. 


2b 


418  KIKG  JAIOBS'B  nUBB  Attmr  LIST. 


COLONEL    Sm   JOHN   FITZ-GERALD, 

[BABONET] 

The  annals  and  achieyements  of  this  noble  and  liistoric  name 

are  emblazoned  in  the  history  not  only  of  Ireland,  but  of 
every  civilized  oonntry  of  the  world.*  In  the  limited  scope 
of  memoir,  that  for  such  a  fiunily  coold  be  here  allowable,  it 
may  be  noted  that,  in  the  eentories  within  the  scope  of  these 
lUustrations^  after  the  merdless  extermination  of  the  Monster 
war  against  the  Earl  of  Desmond,  while  John  Fit^Thomas 
Fit^-Gendd  fled  from  Cork  to  Spun,  as  did  James  Fitz- 
Grerald  from  Kerry,  Sir  Edward  Fitz-Grenild,  E!night,  had  in 
1607  a  grant  of  varions  lands  in  the  Counties  of  Meath  and 
Westmeath,  including  the  manors  of  Tecroghan  and  Eollard, 
the  Monastery  of  Ballybogan,  the  Castie  and  To^ni  of 
Kinnegad,  with  ft  Court  of  pye  poudre,  &c. ;  and  about  the 
same  time  Sir  John,  son  of  Edmund  Fitz-Gendd  of  Cloyne, 
passed  patent  for  more  extensive  possessions,  manors,  castles, 
rectories,  tithes^  &c.,  in  the  Counties  of  Cork  and  Kerry.  In 
1609  Sir  Edmund  Fitz»Gerald  had  a  grant  of  various  other 
estates  in  Cork  and  Limerick;  and,  in  the  same  year,  the 
King's  letter  imued  to  receive  a  surrender  from  Sir  James 
Fitz-Gemid  of  his  Castie  and  Town  of  BaUysonnaa,  with  all 
other  the  castles  and  lands  whereof  he  and  his  ancestors  had 
been  seised,  and  thereupon  to  re-grant  the  same  to  him,  as  by 
a  more  assured  title.  In  1611  the  above  Sir  Edmund  had  a 
further  grant  of  lands  in  the  Counties  of  Cork,  Meath,  West- 


^  See  aCatlaghagCs  Bngodet,  yoL  1,  p.  132,  &c. 


SIB  JOHN  FITZ-OERALD'S  INFANTRY.  419 

meath,  Kerry,  Limerick,  Galway,  and  King's  County.  His 
widow,  the  Lady  Honora  Fitz-Gerald,  had  in  two  years  after, 
jointly  with  others,  as  trustees,  the  wardship  of  his  son, 
described  as  *  John,  son  and  heir  of  Edmund,  son  of  John 
Fitz-Gerald,  Knight;  who  was  the  nephew  and  next  heir  of 
Sir  John,  son  of  Edmund  Fitz-Gerald,  late  of  Cloyne, 
deceased.'  In  1613  the  Lady  Jane  Fitz-Gerald,  'being  one  of 
the  daughters  of  the  Earl  of  Desmond  attainted,'  was  placed 
upon  the  pension  fist  for  £50  per  annum  '  to  maintain  her,  till 
she  was  better  provided  for;'  while  her  sisters,  the  Ladies 
Ellen  and  Elizabeth,  had  then  similar  aUowances. 

The  Attainders  of  1642  present  no  less  than  sixty  Inquisi- 
tions on  Fitz-Geralds ;  those  in  Meath  comprising  Sir  Luke 
Fitz-Gerald  of  Tecroghan,  Richard  of  Kathrone,  and  four 
others ;  those  in  Kildare,  Pierce  Fitz*Gerald  of  Ballysonnan, 
James  of  Timolin,  Maurice  of  Allen,  John,  William,  James, 

and  Ofiver  of  Blackball,  and  forty-seven  others^ In  the 

Supreme  Coundl  at  Kilkenny  sat  Christopher  Fitz-Gerald  of 
Coynelunan,  Edmund  of  Ballymartyr,  Edmund  of  Browns- 
ford,  Gerald  of  Clon^ad,  Gerald  of  Timogue,  the  aforesaid 
Luke  of  Tecroghan,  Matthew  of  Gobinstown,  the  said 
Maurice  of  Allen,  Nicholas  of  Marmayne,  Thomas  of  Bin- 
neysford,  and  said  Pierce  of  Ballysonnan^  Cromweirs  Act 
*  for  settling  Ireland '  excepted  from  pardon  fbr  life  and  estate 
said  %  Luke  Fitz-Gerald  of  Tecroghan,  Knight,  and  Pierse 
Fitz-Gerald  of  Ballysonnan,  *  commonly  called  Mao  Thomas;* 
while,  on  the  other  hand,  the  Parliamentary  thanks  in  the 
Act  of  Settlement  were  given  to  Mr,  Edmund  Fitz-Gerald 
and  Colonel  Bichard  iltz-Gerald  of  Ballymaloe,  to  Ensign 
Morris  Fitz-Gerald  of  Ballynamartery,  County  of  Cork,  and 
to  Mr.  George  Fitz-Gerald  of  Teeroghan.  In  1665  John 
Fitz-Grerald  of  Inismore,  County  Kerry,  petitioned  the  Irish 


420  KING  James's  irish  ahmy  list. 

Parliament  against  a  Bill  tliat  contained  a  clause,  vesting  his 
estate  in  the  crown;  whereas  he,  in  the  great  national  defec- 
tion, ever  retained  principles  of  allegiance  and  loyalty,  and 
tenderness  to  the  distressed  English;  and  his  ancestors,  for 
many  hundred  years,  conveyed  uncomipted  blood  to  the 
petitioner;  and  he  prayed  to  be  heard,  by  his  Council,  against 
the  Bill,  which  liberty  was  granted  accordingly. 

The  George  Fitz-Gkrald,  so  noticed  on  the  Act  of  Settle- 
ment, was  son  of  the  said  Sir  Luke  (by  his  wife,  Maiy, 
daughter  of  Lord  Netterville),  grandson  of  Sir  Edward,  and 
lineal  male  descendant  in  the  fifth  generation  from  Thomas 
Fitz*Maurice  Fitz-6erald,  the  seventh  Earl  of  E^ildare,  by 
his  first  wife,  Dorothy,  daughter  of  Anthony  O'More,  the 
Lord  of  Leix,  whom  he  married  before  his  succession  to  the 
Earldom.  George  died  about  the'  year  1669,  leaving  Mary 
Fitz-Gerald  his  only  child  and  heiress  ;  who,  having  inter- 
married with  her  cousin  Henry  Fitz-Gerald,  the  inheritor  and 
representative  of  the  Fitz-Geialds  of  Bathrone,  and  thus 
descended  from  a  common  ancestor  with  that  of  Tecroghan, 
thereby  united  these  two  ancient  Houses.  Accordingly,  on 
the  Attainders  of  1691,  this  Henry  is  styled  on  one  Inquisi- 
tion as  of  Tecroghan,  on  anotiier  as  of  Bathrone.  Their  son 
and  heir  was  Gerald  Fitz-G^rald  of  Bathrone,  who  married, 
in  1720,  Clare*  only  daughter  of  Sir  John  Bellew,  Baronet; 
by  whom  he  had  issue  Gerald  Fitz-Gerald  the  younger,  of 
Bathrone,  who  was  Member  of  Parliament  for  Eildare  in  the 
year  1761,  and  for  Harristown  in  1768.  He,  the  last  heir 
male  of  Henry  and  Mary  Fitz-G^rald,  died  unmarried  in 
1775,  and  the  representation  descended  through  his  duster 
Julia  (who  had  in  1757  married  John  Daly  of  Dalybrook, 
Coxmty  of  Ealdare,)  to  her  only  married  child  and  heiress, 
Bridget  Fitz-G^rald  Daly;   and  through  her,  on  her  mar- 


SIB  JOHN  FITZ-OERALD'S  INFANTRY.  421 

riage  with  William  Kennej,  Esq.  of  Eilclogher,  County  of 
Galway,  and  of  Ballytarsney,  County  of  Wexford,  (lineal 
descendant  of  Nicholas  Kenney,  Esq.,  of  Edermine  Manor 
and  Kenney's  Hall,  County  Wexford,  Escheator-General  of 
all  Ireland  to  Queen  Elizabeth  and  James  the  First,  who 
derived,  from  John  de  Kenne  of  Kenne,  in  Somersetshire, 
the  arms  still,  worn  by  his  descendants,  as  blazoned  quarterly 
in  his  time,  1571,  by  Nicholas  Narbon,  Ulster  King  of  Arms), 
the  representation  pasded  to  their  eldest  son,  the  late  Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel James  Fitz-Gerald  Kenney,  who,  by  his  wife, 
the  Honorable  Jane  Olivia  Nugent,  daughter  of  the  late 
William  Thomas,  Lord  Biverston,  had  (with  others  who 
died  young)  William  Nugent  Kenney,  Captain  in  the 
xi*^  Regiment,  who  died  unmarried ;  James  Christopher  Fitz- 
Gerald  Kenney,  Esq.,  of*  Kilclogher  and  Merrion  Square, 
J. P.,  M.B.I.A. ;  a  third  son,  Nugent  T*  F*  Kenney  of  Cor- 
rendoo,  County  of  Galway,  and  a  daughter,  Julia-Mary 
Kenney^  James-Christopher  is  now,  therefore,  the  repre- 
sentative and  heir  general  of  the  families  of  Tecroghan  and 
Rathrone.* 

This  name  is  most  abundantly  displayed  over  the  present 
List,  as  in  the  Horse  of  Nicholas  Purcell,  Sir  Neill  O'Neill, 
Colonel  Robert  Clifford,  Lord  GhJmoy,  and  Sarsfield;  in 
Lord  Dongan's  and  Colonel  Francis  Carroll's  Dragoons,  in 
the  King's  Own  Re^ment  of  Infantry,  and  in  nine  other 
Infantry  Regiments. 

In  the  Parliament  of  1689  Fitai-Gerald,  Earl  of  Kildare, 
did  not  sit;  but  in  the  Commons  Edward  Fitz-Gerald  was 
one  of  the   Repre^ntatives  of  the  Borough  of  Inistiogue, 

*  The  Pedigree  of  this  family^  is  ^ven  in  extenso^  with  dates  and  autho- 
rities, in  the  elaborate  work  of  Sir  Bernard  Bnrke,  now  in  the  course 
of  publication.    Authorized  Arms,  &&,  part  IIL 


4t22  KING  JAM£8*6  IBI8H  ABMT   LIST. 

William  of  that  of  Athy,  a  seoond  Edwaid  of  Hanistown, 
Oliver  of  Lanesboroagh,  James  of  Batoath,  Nicholas  of 
the  City  of  Waterford ;  while  this  officer,  Sir  John,  and 
Gerald  Fitz-Grerald,  Esq.,  commonly  called  the  Knight  of 
Glyn,  were  Members  for  the  Coonty  of  Umezick.  This 
Parliament  was  convened  in  May,  1689 ;  on  the  first  of  June 
following,  says  a  Diary  of  the  day,*  '^th^re  marched  from 
Dublin  Sir  Michael  Oreagh,  the  present  Lord  Mayor,  with 
his  Be^ment,  Sir  John  Fita^-Gerald  &om  Bathcoole  and 
Lucan,  with  his  Regiment,  and  several  others  bom  other 
parts,  towards  Trim,  twenty  miles  from  Dublin,  the  place 
appointed  for  the  general  rendezvous  of  the  army  that  are 
sent  against  Enniskillen.  Colonel  Sarsfield  firom  Sligo  is  to 
join  them,  and  so  to  march  to  Enniskillen  to  attack  it,  with  a 
resolution  to  bear  it  down.  All  Sir  Michael  Creagh's  Bcgi- 
ment  was  ndsed  in  Dublin^  Sir  John  Fitz-Gerald's  firom 
Munster,  and  most  that  are  gone  down  there  are  all  raw 
fellows,  not  knowing  how  to  fire  a  gun.*^  On  the  following 
25th  of  July,  writes  Mackenzie,t  '*  the  enemy  had  several 
cows  feeding  behind  their  lines  near  us;  our  men  resolved 
they  would  lay  to  get  so  welcome  a  prey  into  their  own 
hands,  and  accordingly  early  this  morning  they  go  out, 
surprised  Sir  John  Fitz-Gerald^s  Begiment,  who  were  in 
these  lines,  made  havoc  of  them,  beat  them  firom  thdbr 
trenches,  killed  the  Ideutenant-Colonel  (then  another  Fitz- 
Gerald),  and  Captain  Frank  Wilson,  and  took  Captain 
Nugent  prisoner,"  but  were  driven  back  without  obtaining 
their  desired  prey.  During  the  ensuing  oiege  of  Derry,  a 
Captain  Fit^Gerald  was  killed  at  Pennybum^-Mill,!  as  was 
another  Captain  at  the  Boyne.§ 

*  Somen'M  StaU  TracU,  vol  11,  p.  429,    f  Siege  of  Derry,  p.  45.    1 1^  P-  ^* 

§  Qarke'M  Mem.  Jwnee  JZ,  t.  2,  p.  399. 


SIB  JOHN  FlTj^OElBAXiP's  IITFANTBY.  423 

The  C<^nel  at  present  under  oonsideration  **  had  suffered 
under  the  mi^nations  of  the  Whigs  in  the  reign  of  Chfurles 
the  Second,  having  been  one  of  the  Roman  Catholic  gentry 
arreeted  and  oonvejed  to  England  in  1680,  on  account  of 
the  pretended  Popish  Plot.  After  the  accession  of  James 
the  Second,  he  waa  appointed  a  Lieutenant-Colonel  to  the 
Infimtry  Begiment  of  Colonel  Justin  McCarty  (Lord  Mount- 
cashel),  and  in  1689  was  made  Colonel  of  this  Begiment, 
with  which  he  served  at  the  siege  of  Derry.*'*  When,  in 
June  1691,  De  Ginkell  was  advancing  to  besiege  AtUone 
with  his  veteran  army,  Sir  John  Fits-Gerald  sent  out  a 
party  of  Lish  grenadiers  to  dispute  the  passes  and  defiles ; 
and  this  duty  they  discharged  with  equal  courage  and 
prudence,  '*  keeping  the  masses  of  the  enemy  in  check  as 
long  as  possible,  while  retiring  before  superior  numbers, 
making  them  purchase  their  advance  at  considerable  loss."t 
He  took  an  active  part  afterwards  in  defeilding  Limerick 
from  the  same  assailant;  but  O'Conor  writes  that  he  was 
removed  for  D'Usson,  - '  one  more  versed  in  the  soieice  of 
defending  fortified  places.'  On  the  retirement  of  the  Irish 
army  to  France  and  its  reformation  there.  Sir  John  was 
made  Colonel  of  what  was  then  styled  '  the  Begiment  of 
Limerick,'  of  which  Jeremiah  O'Mahony  was  Lieutenantr 
Colonel,  and  William  Therry  Major.  In  that  country,  and 
in  other  parts  of  the  Continent,  this  Begiment  '  acquired 
glorious  renown'  in  various  engagements  in  Normandy, 
Grermany,  and  Italy,  as  fully  set  fi)rth  in  0' Conor's  Military 
Memmn,     Sir  John  Fitz-Gerald  &11  at  Oudenarde  in  1698. 

Although  not  an  adherent  of  King  James,  another  Fitz- 
Gerald  is  too  intimately  connected  with  the  times  to  be  here 

*  CCMaghan^B  Brigadet^  v.  1,  p.  932.    f  CCaiiaghan's  Green  Book^  p.  309. 


424  KIK6  JA]fBS*8  nOBH  ABUT  LIST. 

omitted.  Bobert  Hts-Genld,  oeoond  son  of  tlie  axteenth 
Eari  of  Ejldarei  was,  on  tlie  aooesflioQ  of  JameB,  ^  stnpped  of 
all  his  em^qyineiits  and  estates  to  tlie  Talne  of  £3,300  per 
annunij  and  imiRiflOiied  in  Newgate  for  twenty-one  weeks; 
but  afterwazdsy  in  consequence  of  tlie  state  of  his  health, 
was  ronoved  to  Us  own  house,  where  he  remained  gnarded 
for  five  months.  On  the  landing  of  Eing  William  in  Lrebmd 
he  was  placed  in  dose  dmance  in  Trinity  CoU^e,  and  so 
restiained  until  the  defeat  of  James  at  the  Boyne,  when  he 
broke  from  his  prison,  and  by  his  ooniage  and  prudence 
preserved  Dublin  from  being  sacked.  When  King  William 
entered  the  metropolis.  Captain  Fits^renld  had  the  honour 
of  presenting  to  his  Migesty  the  keys  of  the  city,  and  was 
afterwards  sworn  of  his  Privy  Council.* 

The  Attainders  on  Inquiations  of  1691  against  Iltas- 
Gendds  are  in  number  in  the  several  counties — ^twenty-one 
in  Waterford,  *  seventeen  in  Cork,  as  many  in  Westmeath, 
twenty-three  in  Ejldare,  nine  in  Meath,  six  in  Umerick  and 
Kilkenny  respectively^  five  in  Longford,  four  in  Roscommon 
and  in  Dublin,  two  in  Carlow,  two  in  Wicklow,  and  one 
each  in  Clare,  Kerry,  Queen^s  County,  and  Cavan.  At 
the  Court  of  Chichester  House  in  1700,  Dame  Ellen  Fits- 
Gkndd  claimed,  as  the  widow  of  Sir  John  Fit^-Geraid, 
deceased,  and  was  as  such  allowed^  her  jointure  off  his  County 
of  Limerick  estates;  Piers  Fita^-Gerald  also  claimed  and  was 
allowed  a  remainder  for  years  in  other  Limerick  possesdons 

of  said  Sir  John. -Thomas  and  John  Fitz-Gerald,  minors, 

by  their  guardian,  claimed  and  were  allowed  an  estate  tail 
to  Thomas,  with  remainder  to  John,  in  other  Limerick  lands 
forfeited  by  Gerald  Fitz-Gerald;  while  John  Fitz-Gerald, 

*  Burke^a  Peerage^  pp.  SOi-^. 


SIB  JOHN  fitz-gebald's  infantbt.  425 

second  son  of  said  Gerald,  and  five  of  his  daiighters,  claimed 
portions  off  his  said  Limerick  lands,  but  their  prayer  was 

dismist. ^Mary  Fitz-Gerald  claimed  an  estate  for  her  life 

in  County  of  Eildare  lands  forfdited  by  Henry  Fitz-Gerald, 
her.  husband,  which  was  allowed,  if  she  survived  him,  while 
Luke  Fitz-Gerald  claimed  and  was  allowed  a  reversion  in 
fee  in  that  Kildare  estate,  after  the  death  of  said  Mary  ; 
and  Gerald  and  Edward  Fitz-Gerald,  minors,  by  William 
Fit^Gerald,  their  prochein  ami^  claimed  and  were  allowed 
estates  in  tail-male,  not  only  in  the  Kildare  estates  of  said 
Henry,  but  also  in  other  of  his  estates  in  Meath^  Westmeath, 

and  Cavan. Alice  Fitz-Gerald,  otherwise  Dillon,  claimed 

dower  for  herself,  and  portions  for  her  daughters  Elinor  and 
Alice  Fitz-Gerald,  off  Cork  lands  of  Edmund  Fitz-Gerald, 
her  husband  and  their  father — dismist  as  cautionary. 

For  much  interesting  matter  connected  with  the  Fitz- 
Geralds  at  home,  as  well  as  on  various  military  services 
abroad,  see  O^Callaghan^s  Brigadei^  voL  1^  as  per  Index.  He 
states  that,  in  this  war  6(  the  Bevolution,  there  were  of  the 
name  of  Fitz-Gerald  among  the  Li&ntry,  Horse  and  Dragoon 
officers  of  King  James  in  Lreland,  two  Colonels,  two  Lieu- 
tenant-Colonels, one  Major,  twenty-four  Captains,  fifteen 
Lieutenants^  thirteen  Ensigns  or  Comets,  and  two  Quarter- 
masters; aiid  a  calculation  of  the  two  Army  Lists  here 
embodied  increases  the  number. 


LIEUTENAi^T-COLONEL  JOHN  BINNS. 

This  officer  came  from  France  to  Ireland  in  the  Spring  of 
1689,  to  serve  King  James,  he  being  at  the  time  a  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  in  the  former  country^  but  nothing  more  has  been 
ascertained  of  him  or  his  &mily . 


426  KIKG  JAXB8*8  UOW  ABUT  I38T. 


CAPTAIN STAPLETON. 

Tnia  name  was  of  Anglo-Konnaa  introdactioii  to  IreUmdy 
on  the  inTBsioii  of  Heniy  the  Second;  and  King  John 
granted  certain  eatatea  in  Waterford  to  Sobert  de  Stapleton, 
which  Edward  the  First  confirmed  to  his  descendant,  William 
de  Stapleton,  who  died  seised  thereof  in  1316,  and  to  which 
his  brother  John  succeeded.  In  1S76  Theobald  Stapleton 
and  others  were  appointed  to  assess  and  levy  a  State  subsidy 
from  Tipperary«  James,  Viscount  Battevant,  granted  in  1406 
Island-Cullyne,  in  Cork,  to  John  Stapleton  at  a  small  rent, 
and  the  name  extended  afterwards  widely  over  that  County. 
In  the  Boll  of  those,  who,  on  the  Bestoration,  obtained  adjudi- 
cations for  thdur  services  in  the  Boyal  cause,  up  to  the  time  of 
ELc^  Charles's  decapitation,  hence  d6n<Mninated  the  ^1649' 
officers,  appear  the  names  of  Edmund,  Edward,  and  James 
Stapleton.  Beaides  this  Ciq[>tain,  David  Stapleton  was  a 
Lieutenant  in  Lord  Gralway's  Infantry,  as  was  Piers  in 
Major-Oenend  Boi88eleaa*s,  and  these,  on  their  attainders,  are 
described,  the  former  as  of  Kilbolane  and  Buttevant,  the  latter 
as  of  BallyfHzzle,  County  of  Cork;  while  another  Stapleton 
whose  Christian  name  is  not  ^ven,  is  styled  of  Portumna, 
County  of  Ghdway.  At  the  memorable  battle  of  Fontenoy, 
fought  on  the  11th  of  May,  1745,  li£  Stapleton,  Lieutenantr 
Colonel  in  Berwick's  Begiment,  was,  in  consequence  of  his 
gallant  conduct,  promoted  to  be  a  Brigadier.  Being  made  a 
prisoner  at  CuUoden  in  the  ensuing  year,  he  headed  a  manorial 
from  the  officers  there  taken,  to  the  Duke  of  Cumberland, 
by  which  acknowledging  themselves  prisoners  of  war  of  ELis 
Britannic  Majesty,  they  engage  not  to  go  out  of  the  town  of 
Inverness  without  his  Grace's  license.    "  Done  at  the  Head 


SIB  JOHN  FITZ-aEBALP'B  IH7ANTBT.  427 

Quarters,  at  Inyemess,  April  17th,  1746."  Signed  and 
sealed.  This  interesting  memorial  of  banished  Irish  Cavaliers 
is  preserved  in  the  Gentleman's  Magaaine  of  1746,  p.  211. 


LIEUTENANT  - —  PlGOT. 

It  has  been  maintained  that  this  surname  was  unknown  in 
Ireland  xmtil  the  time  of  King  William,  and,  while  it  certainly 
does  not  appear  on  the  attainders  of  1642,  on  those  of  1696 
stand  Thomas  and  Robert  Pigott,  both  described  as  of 
Clonnisshure  in  Limerick.  That  it  was,  however,  long 
previously  known  in  this  County,  many  records  evince.  A 
possessory  writ,  sued  out  by  Simon  *Pycot*  in  1317,  is  on  the 
rolls  of  the  Irish  Chancery ;  while  in  1422  Roger  Pycot  was 
one  of  the  two  commissioners  appointed  to  raise  a  state 
subsidy  off  the  barony  of  Farbill  and  Moycashel,  in  Meath. 
In  1576  Robert  Piggott,  styled  of  the  Dysart,  in  the  Queen's 
Coimty,  passed  patent  for  the  Castle,  town,  and  lands  of 
Desert  aliae  Disert,  with  a  large  tract  of  other  townlands, 
advowBons,  and  vicarages  therein,  and  the  name  is  still  of 
respectability  in  that  County.  The  Roll  of  Adjudications  for 
the  ^  1649*  Officers  presents  the  names  of  Colonel  Alexander 
and  Captains  Robert  and  William  Piggott* 


ENSIGN YOITNGE. 

This  surname  does  not  appear  on  the  Attainders  either  of 
1641  or  1691,  but  is  of  very  andient  notice  on  Irish  records. 
In  1356  William  and  Henry  '  Yong '  were  of  the  influential 


428  KOTO  JAXBS'S  IBI8H  ASMY  UST 


propfielon  of  tlie  Coontjr  KHkemij,  wko  dicB  deded  Jolm, 
•on  of  Ofirer  de  k  Frergne,  to  llie  Skrietvltr  of  ito  Croases. 
Wiilkm  Young  was  one  of  Ibe  iiJtMiBiiiiliiliifii  of  Uppeivy, 
in  the  delegation  of  iiiwnlieiB  for  Iidflid  that  mt  aft  llie 
Patfiament  of  Westnonater  in  1376.  In  1384  Dr.  Jolm 
Young  died  Biahop  of  T^gl>li«  In  1402  Jolm  Yonge  of 
Casdedennoi  waa  on  a  conmnflaion  for  laiaing  eanteoffEa 
off  the  Coon^  of  Kildare;  Tlianna  Yonge  bad  a  similar 
cliaige  in  1405.  In  aeren  jeaza  after  WHfiam  Yonge,  deik, 
waa  presented  bj  the  Crown  to  the  Aidbdeaoomy  of  Meath, 
with  the  Chmch  of  St.  Cofannb  of  Kdla  united  thereto. 
Walter  Yonge  was  his  iwinr4?Jwor  in  the  Aicfadeaooniy. 
Thomas  Yonge  waa  one  of  thoae  i^ipainted  to  levy  a  clerical 
anbaidy  off  Meath  in  1422.  On  the  Bofl  of  Ad^n^cationa 
fiir  the  *1649*  Oflbsera  appear  die  namea  of  lieutenant 
Andrew  and  Quarter-Master  Jdm  Young. 


ENSIGN  ^ HERBEBT. 

Thib  Welch  surname  was  eaiiy  introduced  to  Iidand.  In 
1356  Matthew  Herbert  was  (me  of  the  influential  proprie- 
tary of  Waterfoid,  who  elected  Peter,  son  of  Soger  le  Poer, 
into  its  Suieralty^  In  1562  Queen  Elizabeth  granted  the 
Abbqr  of  the  blessed  Yiigm  of  Durrow  in  the  King's  County, 
with  sundry  its  possessions  in  lands,  rectories,  and  tithes  to 
Nicholas  Herbert,  who  died  seised  thereof  in  1581.  ^ 
William  Herbert  was,  after  the  confiscation  of  the  vast 
Desmond  estates,  one  of  the  adventurers  whom  Queen 
Elizabeth  settled  thereon^  In  ignorance  of  the  Christian 
name  of  the  above  officer  nothing  certain  has  been  ascertained 
as  to  his 


hOKD  JjOVTB'B  mFAHTBT. 


429 


BEGIMENTS   OP   INFANTBY. 


OUVEB  LQSD  I,0UTH'S, 


Cqptoirw. 

LieiUmasUt, 

Enngnt, 

Lord  Louth, 

Ma.  Plnnket 

Thomas  Plnnkat. 

Colonel 

Geofge  Fttz-Gendd, 

1 —  Fits-Qoald. 

Ia6at.-Ck>L 

Sayester  Plonket 

^dmnnd  Flnnket, 

Ch.  Plnnket. 

R.BeUea. 

.. Bellew. 

Dowdal. 

Junes  Plnnke(. 

Edmund  Donellim. 

i Mapasr 

Babe. 

..^B^be. 

GeoigeBabe. 

J.  Archer. 

B.  Archer. 

« 

■ 

.-^  KeUy, 

Davis. 

H.  Plnnket 

}A.  Kirwan. 

Kellj. 

Taaffe. 

^_  Fleming. 

CO'NeflL 

Theobald  Throgmorton. 
Cbaries  Throgmorton. 

V  James  Bellew, 

Bichaid  WaUe. 

RPlmiket. 

Lake  Flnniet, 

Walter  Plonket. 

Banab^Bomd. 

James  Bnmey, 

Joseph  DowdaL 

430  KINa  JAMEB^S  IBI8H  ABXT  LIST. 


COLONEL  OLIVER  LORD  LOUTH, 


SsE  of  this  Peer,  ante  yoL  1,  p.  222,  &c. 


CAPTAIN,  LIEUTENANT  AND  ENSIGN 

BABE. 

These  three  officers  were  attainted  by  the  description  of 
John  Babe  of  Darver,  Esq.,  with  Thomas  his  son  and  heir 
and  George  his  second  son ;  while  a  fourth  individnal,  described 
as  James  Babe  of  the  same  place,  is  also  in  the  Oatlawries' 
Roll  with  Walter  Babe  of  Drogheda,  merchant.  John,  the 
fiither,  was  restored  by  the  Articles  of  Limerick. 

The  fiunily  is  recorded,  as  located  in  Drogheda  and  Louth 
from  the  time  of  Edward  the  Third,  In  1356  Robert  Babe 
was  appointed  by  that  King  as  an  overseer  of  the  harbours 
from  Dundalk  to  Hohnpatrick.  In  1373  this  Robert  was  one 
of  the  gentry  of  Louth,  whom  the  Sheriff  of  that  County  was 
commanded  to  summon  to  a  great  CoundlL  In  three  years 
after  Richard  Babe,  described  as  then  the  senior  burgess 
of  Drogheda,  having  become  so  delicate  as  to  be  unable  to 
prosecute  business,  had  license  to  appoint  William  Babe  to 
act  for  him.  In  1382  the  aforesaid  Robert  acted  as  a  justice 
in  eyre.  In  1385  King  Richard  committed  to  the  custody  of 
John  Babe  certain  messuages,  meadows,  pastures,  wood  and 
bog  in  Dervir,  County  Louth ;  with  a  water  miU  and  the 
^Towson  of  the  church  of  the  manor;  this  John  was  in  1403 
appointed  a  guardian  of  the  peace  for  Louth.    In  1432  the 


LOM)  LOlJTH'fl  INFANTEY.  431 

King  committed  to  John  Babe,  burgess  of  Ardee,  the  custody 
o(  the  mauoi^  of  Dervir,  theretofore  the  estate  of  John  Babe, 
deceased,  to  hold  during  the  minority  of  Thomas  Babe  his 
nephew  and  heir. 

tn  1627  James  Babe  died  seised  of  a  moiety  of  the  manor 
of  Dervir;  with  a  castle,  wind  and  water  mills  and  water- 
Gourse;  Patrick  Babe,  his  son  and  heir,  died  in  1638,  aged 
40  and  married.  In  March  1641  died  John  Babe,  seised  in 
tail  male  of  half  the  manor  of  Dervir,  with  like  remainders 
in  tail  male  to  his  brothers  Peter,  George,  Patrick  of  Dromis* 
ken,  and  Walter  of  Ardee ;  renminder  to  said  John  and  his 
right  heirs  for  ever^  Michael  Babe  was  the  son  and  heir  of 
said  John  aged  seven  years  at  the  time  of  his  &ther*s  death. 
In  1695  Francis  Babe  oomplained  by  petition  to  the  Irish 
House  of  Commons,  as  that  John,  son  of  Patrick  Babe  of 
Kewry  had  supplanted  him  in  his  inheritance,  under  pretence 
of  being  son  of  Patrick  Babe  of  Dromisken;  and  had,  on  that 
suggestion^  passed  suit  for  the  lauds  of  Dervir  at  the  Court  of 
Claims,  and  therefore  said  Francis  prayed  relief 


CAPTAIN  J.  AND  LIEUTENANT  R.  ARCHER. 

Thi9  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of  Edward  the 
Third,  and  is  more  especially  found  in  the  County  of  Elilkenny. 
In  1343  William  Archer  was  one  of  the  oflBoers  to  whom  was 
given  a  treasury  order,  for  his  labour  and  expenses  in  relieving 
Castie  Kerin  in  Wicklow,  with  archers,  horsemen,  and  .arms 
for  thirteen  days.  In  1358  Roger  Archer  was  appointed  a 
guardian  of  the  peace  in  the  County  Waterford ;  about  which 
time  King  Edward  granted  to  Gregory,  a  son  of  John  Archer, 


432 


all  tlie  bads  wludi  then  were  Id  Us  oocupstioii  widim  die 
liberties  of  KiHrpimy;  to  hold  fir  Us  lifis,  with  reaninder  in 
fise  to  Eliaft,  wtm  of  Adam  Aidier.  In  1393  Hemy  Archer 
WB8  Provogt  of  Kilkenny,  «nd  Willnun  Aidier  reoaved,  in 
1432,  a  ■^ft^y'ti*^  of  Ins  sernees  in  rpmiting  the  Irish 


In  1612  John  Axdier  hniagmnt  of  themsaorof  Mothdl, 
the  castle  of  Carbetstown  and  certain  rectories  with  their 
tithes  in  the  same  Coontj;  while  in  1625  Walter  Archer 
died  seised  of  sondrj  rectories,  Ac,  in  Cailow,  leaving  fire 
sons:  Hemy,  lus  heir;  Thomas,  (who  served  King  Chsries 
the  First  in  Irdand),  Janies,  Jdm,  an^  Patrick,  and  one 
daughter,  Catherine.  Patrick  and  Walter  Ardier  of  Kfl- 
kem^  were  members  of  the  Sopccme  CooncSi  of  Confisdemta 
CathoKos;  and  in  1668  Esther,  described  as  widow  of  Francis 
Archer,  and  John  their  son  and  heir  had  a  grutt  of  upwards 
of  1,000  acres  in  Meath,  in  pursuance  of  a  previons  certificate. 
The  attainders  of  1691  indnde  ox  of  this  name;  three  in 
Kilkenny,  and  ooe  in  each  of  the  Counties  of  DuUiOt  Meath, 
and  Mayo,  on  vriiose  estates  snndiy  daims  were  preferred  at 
Chichester  House. 

In  Lord  Kenmare's  B^iment  of  Infimtry  an  Archer  was  a 
lieutenant,  as  was  Ignattos  Archer  in  that  of  Sir  Heward 
Oxburj^b, 


CAPTAINS  THEOBALD  AND  CHARLES 

THROGMOKTON. 

Ik  the  church  of  Congleton  in  Cheshire  is  a  noble  monument 
oammemoiating  Sir  John  ^Throckmorton'  of  Feckenham,  who 
was   knighted  at  Kenilworth  in  the  first  year  of  Queen 


LORD  LOUTH'S  INFANTRY.  433 

Elizabeth's  reign,  was  afterwards  made  Chief  Justice  of 
Chester  and  died  in  1580.  His  eldest  son  Francis  was 
tortured  into  a  confession  of  having  been  concerned  in  a  con- 
spiracy agdinst  the  Queen,  but  died  protesting  his  innocence. 
*From  a  son  of  this  Sir  John'  (writes  Cole  in  a  manuscript  in 
the  British  Museum)  'descended  Sir  Joseph,  a  wealthy  dtizen 
and  Lord  Mayor  of  London  temp,  Charles  the  Second,  who 
married  a  daughter  of  the  Earl  of  Carlingford  in  Louth  and 
settled  at  Dublin.  His  son  Sir  Charles  Throckmorton  has 
at  this  time  (1762)  a  considerable  place  in  the  Duke  of 
Lorraine's  Court.'  All  these  details,  with  the  fact  that 
Captain  Charles  was  described  in  his  outlawry  as  of  Cruee* 
town.  County  Louth,  strongly  suggest  that  both  these  officers 
were  descendants  of  Sir  John  of  Feokenham.  It  may  be 
noted  that  in  1668  Comet  Thomas  Throckmorton  and 
Elizabeth  his  wife  (relict  of  Captain  Blewett)  and  Stephen 
Blewett  her  son  and  heir,  had  a  grant  of  766  acres  in 
Kilkenny. 


ENSIGN DAVIS, 

This  surname,  of  Welsh  origin,  was  early  introduced  into 
Ireland,  and  in  later  centuries  was  influential  in  Ulster.  The 
most  eminent  of  the  name  in  Ireland  was  Sir  John  Davis, 
the  Attorney-General  in  the  reigns  of  Queen  Elizabeth  and 
King  James  the  First,  and  author  of  the  able  Historical 
Relations  regarding  this  country,  A  Lieutenant  John  Davis 
appears  on  the  Roll  of  the  '1649'  Officers. 


VOL.  II.  2  r 


REGIMENTS  OF  ISFASTRT. 


rMrfckP« 


I 


SociL  PcCsSaflL 


Batfflr.  Ttbf 


^SweajJ  Dohflrtjr. 


RidodBalkr, 
Graead. 


MkhOBJ, 


LORD  kilmallock's  ikfantbt.  435 


COLONEL  DOMINICK  SARSFIELD,  LOKD 

KILMALLOCK. 

The  family  of  Sarefield  has  been  folly  written  of,  in  the 
notices  of  the  illustrious  Patrick  Sarsfield's  'Horse.'  In 
reference  to  the  above  Colonel,  his  grand&ther  was  Sir 
Dominick  Sarsfield,  Knight,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Common 
Pleas.  He  was  Premier  Baronet  of  Ireland  in  1619,  and 
raised  to  the  Peerage  in  1624,  as  Baron  of  Barrett's-County 
and  Viscount  Kinsale,  both  localities  lying  in  Cork;  but  the 
Baron  of  Eansale  (De  Courcy),  having  preferred  his  remon- 
strance to  the  Crown,  as  that  the  title  of  Kinsale  belonged  to 
him,  the  appointment  was  submitted  for  the  consideration 
and  decision  of  the  Lords  and  Judges,  which  wa9  given  in 
favoiu:  of  Lord  Eonsale ;  whereupon  Sir  Dominick  was  soon 
after  created  Viscount  Sarsfield  of  Kilmallock,  with  the 
precedence  of  the  former  patent.  He. died  in  1636,  and  was 
buried  in  Christ  Church,  Cork.  He  left  two  sons,  William 
the  eldest,  his  immediate  successor,  whose  only  son  David  or 
Daniel,  the  third  Viscount,  died  in  1687  without  issue ;  when 
Dominick,  the  second  son  of  the  first  Viscount,  suix^eded  to 
the  title,  and  was  father  of  the  above  Dominick  junior,  the 
fifth  Viscount  of  Kilmallock. 

The  Comte  d'Avaux  wrote,  in  the  October  of  1689,  from 
Ardee  to  the  French  Minister  of  War,  respecting  the 
previous  life  of  this  Viscount  abroad:  'Estant  Irlandois 
Catholique  et  depoill^  de  tons  ses  biens,  il  changea  de  nom, 

et  alia  porter  le  mousquet  dans  le  re^ment  de  -< ;  son 

Capitaine  luy  trouvant  de  la  valeur  et  de  Tapplication,  le  fit 
saigent.     My  lord  Kilmaloc  ne  voidut,  pas  dire  qu'  il  estoit, 


436  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ABMT  LIST. 

et  exerca  cet  employ  pendant  queques  annees,  jusques  a  ce 
qu'  il  Boit  revenu  en  Irlande,  avec  le  Roy  d' Angleterre ;  et  il 
a  est^  remis  par  le  Parlement  en  possession  de  son  bien,  qui 
va  h,  cequ'  on  dit,  a  plus  de  cinquante  mille  francs  par  an.'* 
He  was  made  Colonel  of  this  Infantry  Re^ment,  constituted 
of  the  Privy  Council  of  King  James,  sat  as  a  Peer  in  the 
Parliament  of  Dublin,  subsequently  distinguished  himself  at 
the  first  siege  of  Limerick,  was  also  at  tKe  battle  of  Aughrim, 
and,  after  the  Capitulation  of  Limerick,  followed  the  fortunes 
of  the  dethroned  Stuart.  On  the  re-formation  of  the  Lish 
forces  in  Bretagne,  he  was  appointed  First-Lieutenant  in  the 
second  troop  of  Horse  Guards,  commanded  by  his  brother-in- 
law  the  Earl  of  Lucan.  In  1693  he  was  commissioned  to 
succeed  Major-General  Maxwell  in  the  command  of  the 
King's  Regiment  of  Dismounted  Dragoons,  having  Turenne 
O'Carroll  (the  Marshal  de  Turenne's  godson)  his  Lieutenant- 
Colonel,  and  de   Sales  his  Major.     This  Regiment, 

together  with  that  of  the  Queen's  Irish  Dragoons,  1,400  men, 
he  headed  at  the  battle  of  Marsiglia  in  1693,  continuing 
Colonel  of  the  former  until  after  the  peace  of  Ryswick  in 
1697,  when  that  Regiment  was  broken  up,  and  he  finally  died 
abroad,  about  twelve  years  after.  He  had  been  attainted  in 
1691,  when  Sir  Robert  Southwell,  whose  grasping  at  confisca- 
tions has  been  more  particularly  alluded  to  ante^  vol.  1,  p. 
444->5,  having  represented  his  own  losses  by  the  Irish  rebels 
and  the  English  soldiers  as  amounting  from  March,  1689,  to 
All  Saints'  day,  1690,  to  £4,759,  he  thereupon  ob&ined  a 
grant  of  the  estates  of  this  '  Dominick  Saxsfield,'  as  also  of 
those  of  James  Ronayne  and  Peter  Levailin,  all  situated  in 
the  County  of  Cork. 

-   -'-      - I  .  _  _  111  _■  ■■_  ■    ■  TM  III     MIMM  I     ■ 

*  N^foUatums^  &c.,  p.  536. 


LORD  kilmallock's  infantbt.  437 


LIEUTENANTCOLONEL  JOHN  POWER. 

See  of  this  noble  family  antej  at  Richard  Earl  of  Tyrone,  p. 
205,  &c. 


MAJOR  JOHN  CHAPPEL, 

The  name  of  Chappel,  '  de  la  Chapelle/  is  of  record  in 
Ireland  from  the  lime  of  Edward  the  Second,  when  this 
family  was  seised  of  estates  in  the  County  of  Cork.  On  the 
death  of  Maurice  de  la  Chapelle  in  1326,  his  estates  in  that 
county  were,  according  to  the  profitable  Royal  prerogative  of 
wardships,  granted  during  the  minority  of  James,  his  son  and 
heir;  and  the  seison  of  David  de  la  Chapelle,  as  brother  and 
heir  of  this  James,  is  recognised  in  a  record  of  1343.  In 
1347  John  de  la  Chapelle  was  appointed  a  Guardian  of  the 
Peace  in  that  county.  Of  this  rather  rare  surname  was  also 
Dr.  William  Chappel,  bom  in  Nottinghamshire  in  1582,  the 
tutor  of  Milton  at  Cambridge,  advanced  in  1633,  on  the 
recommendation  of  Laud,  then  Bishop  of  London,  to  the  see 
of  Killaloe ;  by  the  same  influence  was  he  sworn  Provost  of 
Trinity  College,  Dublin,  in  1633 ;  where,  "  in  order  to  give 
the  junior  students  a  taste  of  government,  he  established  a 
Roman  Commonwealth  among  them,  to  continue  during  the 
Christmas  vacation,  in  which  they  had  their  dictator,  consuls, 
censors,  and  other  officers  of  the  Roman  state  in  great 
splendor."*  It  may  be  remarked  that  this  divine  sought 
preferment  in  the  province  where  the  above  individuals  of  his 

*  Ware*s  Bishops. 


438  KING  JAMES'S   IRISH   ARMY  LIST. 

name  had  settled,  and  in  1638  he  was  consecrated  Bishop  of 
Cork ;  but,  when  the  civil  war  of  1641  broke  out,  he  fled  to 
England,  and,  dying  at  Derby  in  1649,  was  buried  in  the 
fiunQy  grave  at  Belthorp  in  Nottinghamshire.  The  above 
Major  John,  from  the  regiment  in  which  he  took  rank,  seems 
to  have  been  also  of  Cork.  He  was  a  Lieutenant-Colonel  at 
Aughrim,  where  he  was  taken  prisoner. 


CAPTAIN  MARTIN  SUPPLfe. 

Nothing  is  known  of  this  officer,  but  the  fiunily  was  likewise 
of  Cork.  On  the  Outlawries  of  1691,  appears  John  '  SooppW 
of  Ealcolman  in  that  county;  and,  at  the  Court  of  Chichester 
House  in  1700,  Jane  Supple,  otherwise  Kenny,  claimed  her 
jointure  off  lands  there  forfeited  by  the  above  Martin,  as 
did  William  Supple  a  remainder  in  tail  therein.  A  James 
Supple,  also,  on  behalf  of  himself  and  his  son  William,  claimed 
a  remainder  in  tail  out  of  the  same  interest ;  but  all  these 
petitions  Were  dismist  as  cautionary. 


CAPTAIN  DAVID  MAC  JONNIN. 

Mac  Jonnin  or  Jennings  is  a  name  peculiarly  located  in  the 
Connaught  Counties  of  Mayo  and  Galway ;  a  branch  is  also 
traced  in  the  County  of  Down ;  accordingly  the  Attainders  of 
1691  include  James  Jennings  of  Tullyard,  County  of  Down ; 
David,  Hubert,  Thomas,  and  Michael  Jonyne  of  Eolloran; 
and  Francis  Jonyne  of  Skeloghoa,  in  the  County  of  Mayo; 
but  this  Captain  does  not  appear  thereon.  One  of  this  sur- 
name was  a  Quarter-Master  in  Lord  Abercom's  Horse. 


LOBD  kilmallock's  ikfaktrt.  439 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  NOBLE. 

At  the  close  of  the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  Richard  Noble 
of  Dublin  married  Maria  Ryan,  heiress  of  a  castle  and  some 
premises  at  Naas,  in  the  County  of  Eildare.  This  officer,  it 
would  seem,  was  a  descendant  of  that  marriage,  and  the 
inquisition  had  on  his  attainder  described  him  as  John  Noble 
of  Blackhall,  County  of  Eildare;  while  a  Greorge  Noble  of 
Birtown,  in  the  same  county,  was  also  then  attainted.  So  early 
as  in  the  reign  of  Edward  the  First,  Philip  le  Noble  appears 
on  Irish  record,  and  in  the  time  of  Henry  the  Fourth,  John 
Noble  was  the  inciumbent  of  Drumcar,  County  of  Louth. 


CAPTAIN  DANIEL  EGAN. 

The  Sept  of  Mac  Egan  was  territorially  seised  of  extensive 
estates  in  Lower  Ormond,  County  Tipperary,  as  well  as  of 
Clan-Dearmida,  a  district  of  the  Barony  of  Leitrim,  County 
of  Galway ;  within  which  latter  locality  they  had  in  old  time 
some  castles.  They  were  celebrated  Brehons  of  Connaught, 
as  also  of  Munster.  Accordingly  John  Mac  Egan  is 
chronicled  as  the  Brehon  of  the  O'Conor,  slain  at  the  battle 
of  Athenry  in  1316;  and  the  Four  Masters  commemorate,  at 
1378,  the  death  of  Teigue  Mac  Egan,  chief  Brehon  of  North 
Connaught,  '*  a  man  of  learning,  free  from  pride  and 
arrogance,  who  kept  a  house  of  general  hospitality;"  the  death 
of  Bryan  Mac  Egan,  Chief  Brehon  of  Brefney,  in  1390;  and 
in  1399  they  relate  the  death  of  Boothgalach  Mac  Egan  of 


440  KINO  James's  hush  arict  list. 

Ormond,  'a  man  learned  in  the  laws  and  in  mosic/  and 
eminent  for  hoepitality ;'  also  of  6iolba-na-neey,  son  of  Conor 
Mac  Egan,  Chief  Professor  of  Laws,  with  many  subsequent 
obits,  mmihirlj  recording  thdir  learning  and  hospitality. 

At  the  dose  of  the  16th  century  Owen  Mac  Egan  was 
despatched  by  the  Earl  of  Desmond  from  Cork  to  Spain,  to 
seek  aid  for  the  meditated  'rising.'  He  was  afterwards 
instituted  Roman  Catholic  Bishop  of  Bosse  by  the  Pope,  and 
actively  co-opeiated  with  Desmond,  until,  in  January,  1602, 
he  was  killed  on  the  occasion  of  a  skirmish  with  the  Queen's 
troops.  In  1611  Cosmagh  Mac  Egan  surrendered  Bally-mac- 
Egan  and  three  other  townhmds  in  Tipperary  to  the  Crown, 
to  fadlitate  a  re-grant  of  the  same.  In  1628  an  inquisition 
post  mortem  was  held  to  ascertain  the  lands  and  possessions  of 
Carberry  Mac  Egan  in  Tipperary.  The  attainders  of  1642 
name  Owen  and  John  Mac  Eg^  of  Aghmagh,  in  Cork, 
while  the  Declaration  of  Boyal  Thanks,  in  the  Act  of  Settle- 
ment, includes  Owen  og€  Mac  Egan  of  that  county,  adjutant 
In  1679  Carberry,  Dan,  and  Constantine  Egan  passed  patent 
for  upwards  of  100  acres  in  Clare.  The  first  had  in  the 
following  year  a  grant  of  58  acres  in  Galway,  as  had,  in  1682, 
Flan  Egan,  his  son  and  heir,  of  173  acres  in  the  same  county, 
and  James  Egan  of  187  more.  Besides  this  officer,  four 
others  of  the  name  appear  on  the  present  Army  List,  viz. : — 
in  Lord  Dongan's  Dragoons,  in  Sir  Neill  O'Neill's,  and  in 
Lord  Galway's  Infantry  respectively.  The  name  of  Captain 
Daniel  does  not  occur  on  the  Outlawries  of  1691 ;  but,  at  the 
Court  of  Chichester  House,  Daniel '  Eagan,*  a  minor,  claimed 
by  hb  guardian  an  estate  tail  in  County  of  Kildare  lands,  as 
forfeited  by  Thomas  Egan;  Margaret  Egan  claimed  a  small 
jointure  thereofF;  and  Elizabeth,  Mary,  and  Anne  Egan, 
their  daughters,  claimed  also  by  their  guardians  portions  of 


LORD  KILMALLOCK'S   INFA19TBT.  441 

one  hundred  pounds  for  each  thereout;  but  all  these  petitions 
were  dismist,  and  Thomas's  estate  in  that  county  was  in  1703 
sold  by  the  Commissioners  of  Forfeitures  to  William  Hewetson 
of  Clough,  in  the  same  county,  discharged  of  all  said  liabilities. 
A  John  Egan  forfeited  in  the  confiscations  of  this  time  lands 
in  the  County  of  Tipperary ;  off  which  Pierce  Nugent,  in 
right  of  his  wife  Mary,  '  who  had  been  theretofore  wife  of 
Dan  Egan,'  (very  probably  the  above  Captain  Daniel  slain  in 
the  war),  claimed  her.jointure. 


LIEUTENANT  PEREGRINE  SPENCER. 

Although  this  name  is  known  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of 
Edward  the  Third,  the  present  officer,  whose  Christian  name 
should  have  been  set  down  as  Hugoline,  not  Peregrine, 
was  associated  with  a  more  illustrious  origin,  the  gifted 
author  of  the  Faerie  Queeni  In  1580  Edmund  Spencer 
accompanied  Lord  Grey^  then  Viceroy  of  Ireland,  as  his 
secretary;  an  office  which  he  held  until  1588,  when  he  was 
appointed  Clerk  of  the  Council  of  Munster,  and  on  the 
plantation  of  that  province  he  had,  in  1591,  a  grant  of  the 
manor  and  castle  of  Kilcolman,  with  other  lands,  containing 
3,028  acres,  in  the  Barony  of  Fermoy;  and  here,  on  the 
banks  of  the  Awbeg,  the  poet's  'gentle  Mulla,*  was  composed 
the  Faerie  Queen.  He  Was  not,  however,  so  devoted  to 
the  muses  as  to  neglect  the  opportunities,  which  his  post 
gave  him,  of  aggrandizing  his  income,  and  this  unhappily 
by  such  oppression  and  ii^ustice,  as  provoked  the  vengeance 
of  his  victims ;  his  house  was  burned,  a  little  child  of  his 
consumed  in  the  flames,  and  he  and  his  wife  were  obliged 


442  KING  JAMBS'S   IBISH  ABMT  LIST. 

to  fly  to  Dublin;  where,  as  Mr.  Hardunon  says,*  he  died 
of  want,  leaving  two  sons,  Sylvanus  and  Peregrine,  Sylvanus 
had  also  two  sons,  Edmund  and  William.  To  the  former 
Charles  the  First  granted  the  manor,  castle,  &c.,  of  Eilcolman ; 
but  he  dying  without  issue,  the  right  to  Kilcolman  survived 
to  William,  whose  possession  having  been  intruded  upon 
during  the  civil  war  of  1641,  he  presented  a  petition  in  1657 
for  redress,  which  was  favoured  by  Cromwell ;  and,  although 
the  lands  were  on  the  Restoration  granted  under  the  Act  of 
Settlement  to  Lord  Kingston,  yet  they  were  restored  to  siuid 
William  Spencer  by  a  patent  grant  of  1678,  together  with 
other  lands  in  the  Counties  of  (jalway  and  Boscommon,  this 
addition  including  Ballinasloe  with  1,619  plantation  acres; 
said  William,  by  his  wife  Barbara,  left  a  son  Nathaniel.  The 
poet^s  second  son.  Peregrine,  died  in  1641,  seised  <^  the 
lands  of  Binney,  near  Eilcolman,  to  which  the  above  Lieu- 
tenant, his  eldest  son,  succeeded ;  but  being  a  Boman  Catholic, 
and  having  attached  himself  to  the  cause  of  James  the  Second, 
he  was  outlawed.  Thereupon,  in  1697,  some  impropriate 
rectories  and  tithes  of  which  he  was  seised  were,  under  the 
Act  of  Settlement,  conveyed  to  augment  poor  vicarages, 
while  his  said  estate  of  Binney,  described  as  three  hundred 
and  thirty-two  acres,  &g.,  was  granted  by  patent  to  the  above 
Nathaniel}  son  of  William,  as  the  next  Protestant  heir  of  said 
Hugoline ;  and  he,  in  1716,  sold  the  lands,  <Sx;.,  of  Ballinasloe, 
with  the  ftirs  and  markets  there,  to  Frederick  Trench, 
ancestor  of  the  present  Earl  of  Clancarty.  These  fidrs 
became  afterwards  the  most  celebrated  in  the  British  Empire. 
The  will  of  this  Nathaniel  Spencer,  dated  14th  October, 
1718,  was  proved  in  1734,  in  the  Prerogative  Court,  Dublin 

*  Irisk  Mmstrd^^  toL  1,  p.  319,  &c. 


SIB  MAUBICE  EUSTACE'S  INFANTRY. 


443 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 


SIB  MAUBICE  EUSTACE'S. 


Captami, 

lAtnUentmU, 

Eimigni, 

The  Colonel. 

•—^Eustace. 

[John  Wogan, 

Lieatenant-ColoneL  ] 

Fitz-Patrick, 

-i — kelljr. 

-.-Fanell. 

liijor.] 

James  Clinch. 

brands  Tipped . 

Siinon  Hart 

Edward  Moore. 

Bartholomew  Hissett 

Robert  Missett 

John  Warren 

Richard  Warren. 

Robert  *  Shiilock.' 

Thomas  Denn. 

Christopher  *  Denne.' 

Edward  Lawless. 

Thomas  Hussejr. 

Meyler  Hiisse7. 

John  Hnssey. 

Oliver  Bochford. 

Michael  Beiford. 

tJlTBses'Boork.* 

Cornel.  Conan. 

Walter  Fits-Gerald. 

Manrice  Fitz-Gerald. 

James  Eustace^ 

Manrice  Kelly. 

Patrick  Godding. 

Dayia. 

Francis  Seagrave. 

—  Davis. 
Laurence  Seagrare. 

-'^—  Keoghoe. 

Thomas  Fitz-Gerald. 

Fitz-Gerald. 

* Fits-Gerald. 

Richard  Eustace. 

John  Eustace. 

Thomas  Sherlock* 
Thomas  Aspole. 

-^—  Sherlock. 
Andrew  Aspole. 

George  Fitz-Gerald; 

Valentine  Browne. 

Matthew  Enstace. 
John  Keating. 

Ckirvrgtm^  John  Connor. 


444  KMSG  JAMES  8  ISISH 


COLONEL  Sm  MACBICE  EUSTACE. 

De  Bcsgo  idles  opoo  an  inaoriptioD  on  a  maomneiit  in  the 
Chordi  of  Si.  Sextos,  as  dernring  this  fiunHj  from  tbe  Boman 
martjrr  St.  EastaddiiSu  Hoe  it  will  saSBee  to  state  that  the 
Irish  biaiich  of  this  fiunily  may  be  tnoed  to  that  'adTcntoier 
of  die  fint  water/  Maurice  Fit^-Genld,  to  whom  Hemy  the 
Second  gave  the  Barony  of  Naas.  £Gs  idatiTe  Eusfcaoe,  the 
founder  of  this  name*  inherited  the  northern  parts  thereof, 
with  part  of  the  Barony  of  Kilcollen;  and  a  descendant  of 
his,  Bidiard  Fitz-Eostaoe,  was  Baron  of  Castlemartin  in 
1200;  while  others  became  Barons  of  Haniatown  and  Pent- 
lester.  Li  1356  a  member  of  the  fiumly  founded  the  Do- 
minican Friary  at  Naas,  which,  according  to  De  Burgo,  in 
due  rerer^ice  to  their  reputed  origin,  he  dedicated  to  St. 
Eustachins.  Li  1373  Thomas,  Archbishop  of  Dublin, 
appointed  Tbomasi  son  of  Almaric  Fitsc-Eustaoe,  Constable 
of  the  Castle  of  Ballymore,  with  a  salary  of  £10  per  <mnum, 
provided  he  should  reside  there  with  his  family,  and  govern 
the  tenants  without  extortion,  and  guard  and  maintain  the 
fortress.  Maurice  Fits&'Eustace  was  in  1385  appointed  Sheriff 
of  Meath,  and  in  1415  Bichard  Eustace  of  Ballycodand,  had 
a  grant  of  the  custody  of  two-thirds  of  the  lands,  &c.,  of 
Walter  Nangle  in  Meath,  to  hold  with  the  wardship,  during 
the  minority  of  Bamaby,  Walter's  son  and  heir.  In  five 
years  after,  John  Eustace  of  Newland,  and  Walerian  Eustace 
were  commissioned  to  inquire  into  the  state  of  Kildare. 

In  1400,  says  an  ancient  family  pedigree  frequently  referred 
to  herein, '  Alexander,  son  of  Alexander  Eustace  of  Castle- 
martin, founded  the  house  of  Mainham.     He  was  married  to 


SIB  MAUBICE  EUSTACE'S  IKFAKTHT.  445 

Mary  O'Byme.  Their  eldest  son,  James,  married  Margaret 
O'Toole ;  their  eldest  son,  Maurice,  married  Mary  O^Kava- 
nagh,  and  he  had  by  her  William  his  son  and  heir,  who 
married  first  Joan  Eustace  and  secondly  Elizabeth  Usher. 
The  eldest  son  by  the  last  marriage  was  William  Eustace, 
who  married  Cecily  Graydon,  and  had  by  her  seven  sons  and 
three  daughters:  James,  the  fourth  of  these  sons,  married 
Mary  Wogan,  and  had  a  son  Walter,  who  became  the  husband 
of  Mary  Broderick;  their  son  Nicholas  was  noarried  to 
Dorothy  Tieman,  whose  son  Oliver  Eustace  is  now  living  at 
Cadiz/  The  above  Genealogy  is  certified  as  having  been 
taken  out  of  the  title  deeds  of  the  estate,  refers  especially  to 
the  native  annals  and  to  an  Inquisition  taken  at  Naas  in 
1619,  and  appears  to  have  been  drawn  up  for  the  above- 
mentioned  Oliver  of  Cadiz* 

•  In  1426  Sir  Kichard  Eustace  was  Lord  Chancellor  of 
Ireland,  in  ten  years  after  which  he  sat  as  Deputy  Chancellor. 
In  1431  Edward  Fitz-Eustace,  Knight,  was  Sheriff  of  the 
County  Kildare,  soon  after  which  he  was  appointed  a  Privy 
Councillor,  when  he  was  selected  to  go  over  to  advise  the 
King  of  the  condition  of  Ireland, 

In  1454  Sir  Edward  Fitz-Eustace,  Lord  Deputy  of  Ireland, 
'  a  warlike  Knight,  and  fitted  for  a  government  which  required 
activity  and  vigour,  routed  the  O'Connors  of  Ofialey,  in  that 
memorable  engagement,  where  Leland  records  the  generous 
contest  between  a  father  and  son  of  the  House,  each  seeking 
by  self-devotion,  to  save  the  other  firom  the  vengeance  of  the 
enemy.  This  Sir  Edward's  son.  Sir  Boknd  Eustace,  was 
created  Baron  of  Portlester,  with  the  manor  annexed  in  tail- 
male;  and  aflerwards  was  appointed  Lord  Chancellor  and 
Treasurer  of  Ireland.  In  1462  he  founded  the  Frandscan 
monastery  of  New  Abbey,  in  the  County  of  Kildare;  and 


446  KING  JAMES*S  IRISH  ABMT  LIST. 

also  the  beautiful  structure  called  from  him  Pdrtlester's 
Chapel,  within  the  precincts  of  St.  Audeon's  parish  church, 
Dublin.  In  1475  he  and  Sir  Robert  Eustace  were  the  two 
most  noble  and  worthy  persons  appointed  to  represent  the 
County  of  Eldare,  on  the  first  fommtion  of  the  honourable 
order  of  St.  George.  The  former  afterwards,  in  his  zeal  for  the 
house  of  York,  credulously  espoused  the  cause  of  the  pretender, 
Lambert  Simnel,  but  was  pardoned  on  doing  homage  to  Sir 
Richard  Edgecombe.  In  1472  Oliver,  son  of  Sir  Roland, 
Lord  Portlester,  was  raised  to  be  a  Baron  of  the  Irish  Ex- 
chequer. In  1496  died  Lord  Portlester,  after  filling  the  high 
office  of  Lord  Treasurer  of  Ireland  for  thirty-eight  years. 

^In  that  year  Richard  Eustace  and  Thomas  Sherlock  were 

on  a  commission  to  carry  out  the  ol^ect  of  an  act,  then 
recently  passed  in  a  Parliament  at  Drogheda,  for  surrounding 
the  Pale,  ue,  the  four  Counties  of  Dublin,  Lputh,  Meath,  and 
Eildare,  then  the  acknowledged  ambit  of  the  English  govern- 
ment, with  ramparts  and  fosses.  In  1^41  Sir  Thomas  Eus- 
tace was  created  Baron  of  Eilcullen,  and  in  the  following 
year  advanced  in  the  Peerage  to  be  Viscount  Baltinglas. 
His  grandson,  James,  was  the  third  Viecount,  who  having 
been  attainted  in  the  Geraldine  rebellion,  is  said  to  have  died 
in  Spcun  without  issue. 

In  1580  the  Eustaces  took  part  with  the  oppressed 
O'Tooles,  and  joined  them  in  resisting  the  wild  expedition 
of  Lord  Gray  through  the  romantic  pass  of  Glenmolaur  for 
their  extermination.  James  Eustace  (the  third  Viscount 
before  alluded  to)  and  his  adherents  were  consequentiy 
attainted,  and  their  confiscated  estates  were,  in  1605,  granted 
to  Sir  Henry  Harrington,  Ejoight,  '4n  regard  that  he  had 
been  a  very  good,  ancient,  and  long  servitor  in  the  late  wars 
and  rebellion  in  Ireland.**    Queen  Elizabeth  having  however 


SIB  MAURICE   EUSTACE'S   INFANTRY.  447 

previously  demised  certain  rectories  and  tithes  in  Meath, 
Kildare,  Dublin,  Carlow,  and  Wexford,  for  a  term  of  years 
to  John  Eustace,  he  had  a  recognition  of  such  his  interests 
by  patent  of  1612;  while,  in  that  year  Christopher  Eustace, 
as  son  and  heir  of  Robert,  who  was  the  son  and  heir  of  John 
Eustace  of  Liscartan  in  Meath,  had  livery  of  his  estates. 

The  Attainders  of  1642  name  John  son  of  Christopher 
Eustace  of  Baltrasney,  County  of  Kildare ;  Maurice  Eustace 
of  Castlemartin,  Roland  of  Blackball,  and  twelve  others  in 
the  said  county ;  five  in  the  County  of  Wicklow,  and  two  in 
that  of  Dublin.  Oliver  and  Thomas  Eustace  also,  though 
not  named  on  the  Outlawries  of  that  period,  forfeited  estates 
in  the  Barony  of  Upper  Cross^  County  of  Dublin.  In  1639, 
the  Irish  House  of  Commons  elected  Mr.  Serjeant  Maurice 
Eustace  their  Speaker,  'a  wise,  learned,  and  discreet  man, 
and  of  great  integrity.'  During  the  ensuing  civil  war,  he 
conducted  negotiations  betwecA  the  conflicting  parties,  in  a 
manner  that  elicited,  in  1647,  from  the  Commons  a  vote  of 
thanks  'for  his  singular  affection  to  the  English  nation.'  He 
had  been,  in  1644,  appointed  Master  of  the  RoUs,  and  in 
1660  was  raised  to  the  Chancery  Bench.  He  died  in  1665, 
having,  by  his  will  of  that  date,  bequeathed  his  chief  estates 
in  Kildare,  Dublin,  and  Wicklow,  together  with  the  Abbey 
of  Cong,  County  of  Mayo,  and  its  appurtenances,  severally,  to 
his  nephews  Sir  John  and  the  above  Sir  Maurice  Eustace,  in 
tail  male.  He  also  devised  to  the  Provost  and  Board  of 
Trinity  College,  Dublin,  a  rent-charge  of  £20  'per  annum^ 
chargeable  on  the  great  house  built  by  him  in  Dame-street, 
for  the  maintenance  of  a  Hebrew  lecturer  in  that  establish- 
ment; and  directed  his  interment  in  the  old  family  vault  at 
Castlemartin.  The  latter  direction  was  not,  however,  com- 
plied with;  he  was  buried  in  St.  Patrick^s  Cathedral.     The 


448  KING  JAMESES  IBTSH  AltMT  LIST. 

Boyal  declaration  of  thanks  in  1662  includes  James  Eustace, 
styled  of  Culadidn,  County  of  Wexford. 

A  funeral  entiy  of  1684,  in  Birmingham  Tower,  states  the 
death  in  that  year  of  John  Eustace,  son  of  Maurice,  son  of 
William,  of  Castlemartin,  and  consequently  a  brother  of  this 
Colonel  Sir  Maurice.  He  had  married  (states  the  document) 
Margaret,  daughter  of  Edward  Keating  of  Narraghmore,  in 
said  county,  by  whom  he  had  three  sons,  Maurice,  John,  and 
Thomas.  The  former,  Maurice,  married  Margaret,  daughter 
of  Sir  Thomas  Newcome,  Knight ;  John,  the  second  son,  had 
four  daughters.     In  two  years  afber,  this  Colonel,  Sir  Maurice 

was   constituted   a  Privy  Councillor*      Besides   him  

Eustace  was  a  Lieutenant  in  Lord  Dongan's  Dragoons; 
Richard  Eustace  of  Barretstown  was  Lieut^nant*Colonel  of 
Lord  Gormanston's  Infkntry ;  while  in  Sir  Neill  O'Neill's 
Dragoons,  Nicholas  Eustace  was  a  Captain,  and  Christopher 
a  Lieutenant.  The  latter,  it  woxdd  seem,  was  taken  prisoner 
at  the  siege  of  Derry,  in  the  attack  at  the  Windmill,*  where 
Lieutenant-Colonel  Bichard  was  wounded.  On  the  10th  of 
May,  1689,  King  James,  in  a  letter  to  Lieutenant*General 
Hamilton,  then  encamped  before  Derry,  writes,  "I  am  send- 
ing down  one  great  mortar  and  two  pieces  of  battery  by 
land,  and  the  same  number  of  both  by  sea;  it  was  actually 
impossible  to  despatch  them  sooner.  Ten  companies  of 
Eustace's  will  be  soon  with  you,  all  well  armed  and  clothed."! 
It  is  remarkable  that  on  this  very  day  the  bill  recognizing 
this  Ejing's  title,  &c.,  was  read  the  third  time  in  his  parliament 
and  presence.  James  Eustace  and  Maurice  Eustace  sat  there 
representatives  of  the  Borough  of  Blessington. 

•  WdUter's  Siege  of  Derry,  p.  60. 
t  King  Jam^e  Liters,  MSS.  Trinity  College,  E  2  19. 


SIR  MAURICE   £USTAG£*S   INFANTRY.  449 

The  Attainders  of  1691  include  the  above  Colonel  Maurice 
Eustace,  styled  of  Castlemartin,  Baronet,  and  Lieutenant* 
Colonel  Richard  of  Barretstown,  County  of  Dublin ;  with  ten 
others  of  the  name  in  the  County  of  Kildare,  eight  in  Carlow, 
and  two  in  Wicklow.  Maurice  Eustace,  being  then  absent 
from  Ireland,  had,  in  October,  1691,  on  the  capitulation  of 
Limerick,  a  reservation  of  the  benefit  of  the  Civil  Articles 
then  agreed  upon,  (see  ante^  p.  391.)  He  died  in  France  in 
1698  without  issue  male.  An  Liquisition  taken  at  the  close 
of  the  year,  (14th  March)  1690,  on  the  attainder  of  Francis 
Eustace,  in  regard  to  his  possessions  in  the  Baronies  of  Forth 
and  Idrone  in  the  County  of  Carlow,  finds  that  he  and  his 
son  and  heir  Oliver  were  in  actual  rebellion  on  the  1st  of 
May,  1689,  against  the  King  and  Queen ;  and  that  after  the 
battle  of  the  Boyne,  they  departed  with  Richard,  Earl  of 
Tyrconnel,  William,  Earl  of  Limerick,  and  other  rebels  and 
traitors,  beyond  the  Shannon,  and  had  there  continued  in 
actual  war  and  rebellion ;  whereupon  the  jurors  found  the 
extent  of  their  respective  freehold  estates  in  both  baronies. 
In  1697  an  Act  was  passed  for  settling  certain  rectories 
according  to  the  will  of  Sir  Maurice  Eustace;  and,  in  1720, 
another  statute  authorized  the  sale  of  his  lands  for  the  pay- 
ment of  his  debts.  At  Chichester  House  in  1700,  various 
claims  were  preferred  as  affecting  the  confiscations  of  the 
above  Sir  Maurice  Eustace,  as  also  those  of  Francis  and 
Oliver  Eustace  in  Carlow,  and  of  Alexander,  Thomas,  and 
Katherine  Eustace  in  Eildare.  Off  Sir  Maurice^s  the  claims 
of  his  wife  for  jointure,  and  of  their  infant  child  Frances,  for  a 
portion  of  £300,  and  an  annuity  of  £40  for  maintenance,  and 
of  another  daughter  Margaret  for  £200  portion  and  £20 
annuity  were  allowed.  [The  Colonel  himself,  who  had  been 
severely  wounded  at  Aughrim,  was,  on  his  arrival,  with  the 

VOL.  II.  2  G 


450  KINO  James's  ibish  abht  list. 

remainder  of  King  James's  army  in  France,  made  Colonel  of 
one  of  the  re-formed  Regiments  of  Irish  Infantry,  which  he 
commanded  up  to  the  autumn  of  1693,  when  it  may  be  pre- 
sumed he  died ;  as  in  that  year  King  James  appointed,  at  St. 
Germains,  a  successor  in  command  to  his  Regiment.] 

Of  this  noble  and  historic  name  five  have  been  Lords 
Chancellor,  two  Lords  Deputy,  and  one  Lord  High  Treasurer, 
of  Ireland.  An  ancient  pedigree  of  this  name  traces  the 
Mainham  Eustaces  to  a  John  of  Mechlin,  a  Captain  in 
Dillon's  Infantry  Regiment  of  Brigades.  He  had  an  only 
son  John  who,  at  the  time  of  that  pedigree  being  compiled, 
had  an  only  son  Francis,  bom  in  1754.  *' There  b  also  (adds 
this  authority)  of  the  House  of  Mainham,  Walter  Eustace, 
merchant,  in  Dublin,  and  his  nephew  Oliver  Eustace  at 
Cadiz." 


[LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  JOHN  WOGAN.] 

This  commission  is  filled  &om  the  Appendix  to  Dr.  King^s 
State  of  the  Protestants,  It  does  not  appear  on  the  CoU^ 
List,  but  is  recognised  on  that  of  the  British  Museum. 

The  name  of  Wogan  is  projected  on  the  records  of  Ireland 
&om  the  earliest  years  after  the  Invasion.  In  1295  Sir  John 
Wogan  was  Lord  Justice  there;  as  he  was  again  in  1298, 
1302,  1307,  and  1309.  In  the  latter  year,  by  the  King's 
command,  he  appointed  a  commission  to  inspect  the  waters 
and  weirs  of  the  Liffey  between  Dublin  and  the  '  Salmon-leap,' 
to  report  by  whom  such  weirs  were  lately  erected,  beyond 
those  of  andent  establishment,  and  to  abate  all  nuisances. 
In  1310  John,  son  of  John  le  Poer,  Knight,  released  to  this 
Sir  John  Wogan  and  to  Isabella,  his  wife,  the  fee  of  all  lands 


SIR  MAURICE  £USTAC£*8   INFANTRY.  461 

which  they  enjoyed  by  demise  of  William  de  Clare  or  of  the 
Lord  Jordan  Fitz-Jordan  of  Exeter.  In  seven  years  after 
the  King  granted  to  stdd  Wogan  all  the  lands  of  Kilkea, 
Castledermot,  Bert,  Moone,  Carbry,  Allen,  Combre,  and 
Okethy,  to  hold  to  him  and  his  heirs  with  the  knights'-fees, 
and  advowsons  of  churohes.  At  the  same  time  he  had  a 
grant  of  the  custody  of  the  lands  of  John  de  Cogan,  lately 
deceased,  to  hold  during  the  minority  of  Cogan's  heir;  while 
Walter  Wogan  was  then  appointed  to  collect  an  aid  from  the 
liberty  of  Wexford  and  the  mercantile  towns  therein,  towards 
repressing  *  the  malice  of  the  Irish  of  the  mountains  of  Leinster.' 
This  Walter  was  in  1320  a  Justice  in  eyre.  In  1344  Thomas 
Wogan  Was  Constable  of  the  Castle  of  Clonmore ;  he  was, 
however  ordered,  in  observance  of  a  recent  proclamation,  to 
reside  upon  his  own  lands  in  Wicklow  for  their  safety,  and 
that  of  the  adjacent  country. 

In  1356,  by  writ,  reciting  that  on  deliberation  of  the  Council, 
it  was  ordered  that  the  wards  of  the  County  of  Kildare  should 
be  strengthened,  on  the  contribution  of  the  nobles  and  more 
influential  proprietors;  nevertheless,  by  reason  of  the  para- 
mount power  of  Thomas  Wogan  there,  and  the  extent  of  his 
own  lands,  and  of  those  which  he  had  inherited  from  his 
father,  who  had  lliem  by  Boyal  gift,  he  is  bound  to  con- 
tribute a  larger  proportion  to  this  aid;*  the  writ,  therefone, 
directed  that  he,  with  three  other  men-^t-orms,  and  with 
horses  fiilly  equipped,  eight  hobillers  and  twenty-four  archers 
on  foot,  should  keep  continued  ward  there.  In  1359  John 
Wogan  was  summoned  to  a  great  council.  In  1374  Henry 
Wogan,  Knight,  seneschal  of  the  liberty  of  Wexford,  was 
deputed  to  wait  upon  the  King  in  England,  concerning  divers 
urgent  a£&irs  in  Ireland.  In  1385  David  Wogan  had  a 
Treasury  disbursement,  on  account  of  men  and  horses  of  his. 


452  KING  JAKES'S  IBISH  ABHT  LIST. 

often  wounded  in  the  wars  of  Leinster;  and,  in  the  following 
year,  he  was  one  of  a  commission  empowered  to  assess  and 
levy  '  smoke  silver '  within  Kildare,  where  he  was  then 
seised  of  all  the  aforesaid  manors  of  Ejlkea,  Castledermot, 
&c.  In  1394  he  was  summoned  t.o  a  great  Coundl  at 
Kilkenny,  and  in  1407  had  license  to  export  com  firom 
Ireland,  for  victualling  his  own  castles  in  Wales.  A  patent 
roll  of  1421  recites  that  John,  the  son  and  heir  of  this 
David,  had  then  recently  died,  leaving  four  daughters  his 
co-heiresses,  all  under  age,  whose  estates,  manors,  &c.,  were 
situated  on  the  frontiers  of  the  Pale,  exposed  to  the  constant 
inroads  of  the  Irish  enemy ;  the  King,  therefore,  committed 
the  custody  of  all  same  (excepting  the  '  dowers'  of  Anastasia, 
the  widow  of  said  David,  and  of  Mai^aret,  the  widow  of  said 
John)  to  John  Bellewe,  Knight,  junior,'  who  soon  after 
intermarried  with  said  Anastasia;  the  enrolment  of  her 
assignment  of  dower  is  a  record  of  formidable  length. 

The  name  of  Wogan  did  not,  however,  become  then  extinct 
in  Kildare.  Thomas  Wogan,  £[night,  was  appointed  a 
guardian  of  the  peace  therein  in  1426 ;  and  he,  in  the 
following  year,  having  been  taken  prisoner  by  the  Mac 
Murrough,  in  the  wars  of  that  part  of  Leinster,  was  ransomed 
for  240  marks,  of  which  £20  was  directed  to  be  paid  from  the 
Treasury.  Immediately  after  the  old  family  manors  aforesaid 
were  confirmed  to  him  by  patent  from  the  Crown.  He  seems 
to  have  been  in  truth  a  younger  son  of  the  aforesaid  David, 
and  died  in  1433.  In  1446  Richard  Wogan,  derk,  was  the 
Irish  Lord  Chancellor;  and  in  1415  Hugh  Wogan  was 
amerced  for  not  attending  the  Parliament  of  Diogheda. 

In  1636  died  Nicholas  Wogan  of  Blackball,  County  of 
Kildare,  fourth  son  of  David  Wogan  of  New-Hall  in  said 
County.     He  had  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  William 


SIR  MAURICE  EUSTACE'S   INFANTRY.  453 

Hollywood  of  Harbertstown  in  the  County  of  Meath,  by 
whom  he  had  four  sons;  1,  William,  who  married  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Edward  Wogan  of  Grangerosnolvan,  County  of 
Ejldare;  2,  Charles;  3,  Edward;  and  4,  Thomas,  all  yet 
unmarried,  says  the  Funeral  Entry  of  this  Nicholas  in  the 
Herald's  Office;  he,  it  adds,  died  in  July,  1636,  and  was 
buried  at  Kilmaoge  in  said  County.  The  above  William  and 
Thomas  were  attidnted  in  1642,  as  were  Oliver  Wogan  of 
Downings  and  Nicholas  Wogan  of  Bathcofiy.  The  latter 
was  one  of  the  Supreme  Council  of  Kilkenny  in  1646.  In 
1666  Thomas  Owgan  had  a  confirmatory  grant  of  1,230  acres 
in  Cork ;  his  descendant  William  is  alluded  to  ante  p.  57. 

Besides  this  officer,  who  was  killed  at  the  siege  of  Deny, 
a  James  Wogan  was  Major  in  the  Earl  of  Antrim's  Infantry ; 
and  John  Wogan,  a  Captain  in  Fitz-James's  Foot.  He  was 
of  Bathcofiy,  Sheriff  of  the  County  of  Kildare  in  1687,  one 
of  its  Representatives  in  the  Parliament  of  Dublin ;  and  was 
attainted  in  1691,  with  Patrick  Wogan  of  Maynham  in  the 
same  County. 

The  chivalry  and  devotion  of  Irishmen  to  the  dethroned 
Stuart,  as  evinced  by  the  gallant  daring  of  Colonel  Charles 
Wogan  in  the  time  of  George  the  First,  are  alluded  to  ante 
p.  68 ;  meanwhile  it  may  here  be  remarked  that  a  noanuscript 
compilation  of  this  Colonel  Charles,  of  a  very  miscellaneous 
character,  is  in  the  possession  of  Mr  Aylmer  of  Painstown, 
near  BA^hcoffy.  In  it  are  an  address  in  poetry  from  Lord 
Wharton  to  himself,  as  to  *  My  friend  Sir  Charles  Wogan, 
Baronet,'  and  a  Comment  from  Dean  Swift  to  him  on- 
particulars  of  the  exile's  life  which  had  been  frurnished  to 
the  Dean.  "  We  guessed  you,"  writes  Swift,  "  £o  have  been 
bom  in  this  country  from  some  passages,  but  not  from  the 
style,  which  we  wondered  to  find  so  correct  in  an  exile, 


454  KIX6  JAMES'8  IRISH  ABUT  UST. 

a  soldira",  said  a  native  of  IieLmcL  .  .  .  Altboogh  I  hare 
no  great  regaid  for  jonr  tnde,  from  the  jadgment  I  make  of 
those  who  profeea  it  in  theee  kingdoms,  yet  I  cannot  but 
esteem  those  gentlemen  of  Irehmd  who,  with  all  the  dia- 
advantages  of  being  exiles  and  strangers,  have  been  aUe  to 
difltingniflh  themselves  by  their  valour  and  conduct  in  so  many 
parts  of  Europe,  I  think  above  all  other  nations.  Which 
ought  to  make  the  English  ashamed  at  the  reproaches  they 
cast  on  the  ignorance,  the  dullness,  and  the  want  of  courage 
of  the  Irish  natives;  these  defects,  wherever  thqr  hi^pen, 
arising  only  from  the  poverty  and  slavery  they  sufier  from 
their  inhuman  neighbours,  and  the  base  corrupt  sfnrits  of  too 
many  of  the  chief  gentry.  By  such  events  as  these  the  veiy 
Grecians  are  grown  slavish,  ignorant,  and  superstitions.  I 
do  assert,  from  several  experiments  I  have  made  in  travelling 
over  both  Kingdoms,  I  have  found  the  poor  cottagers  here, 
who  could  speak  our  language,  to  have  a  much  better  taste 
for  good  sense,  humour,  and  raillery  than  ever  I  observed  among 
people  of  the  like  sort  in  England/' 

The  powerful  pen  of  Scott  has  in  Waverletf  commemorated 
a  *  gallant  Captain  Wogan  who  renounced  the  service  of  the 
usurper,  Cromwell,  to  join  the  standard  of  Charles  the 
Second;  marched  a  handful  of  cavalry  from  London  to  the 
Highlands  to  join  Middleton,  then  in  arms  for  the  King,  and 
at  length  died  gloriously  in  the  Boyal  cause/  This  eulogy, 
however,  applies  to  one  of  the  &mily  some  years  previously 
to  the  Bevolution.  Nicholas  Wogan,  a  brother  of  the  above 
Colonel  Charles,  was  tried  at  Wexham  in  1717  for  treason 
committed  in  the  rising  of  1715,  but  in  three  years  after  he 
obtained  pardon  therefor,  and  his  daughter  and  heiress 
married  John  Talbot  of  the  House  of  Malahide ;  the  ancient  title 
of  Baron  of  which  locality  was  revived  to  their  descendants. 


SIB  MAUBIOE   EUSTACE'S  INFANTBT.  455 


CAPTAIN  JAMES  CLINCH. 

This  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  since  the  time  of  Ed^ward 
the  Second,  when  Thomas  'Clinche'  was  seised  of  lands 
within  the  Palatinate  of  Ormond;  and,  in  the  first  year  of 
the  reign  of  Henry  the  Fourth,  that  monarch  confirmed  the 
appointment  of  Walter  'Clyng'  to  the  parsonage  of  the 
Church  of  the  Holycross  at  Castlecomer,  in  the  Diocese  of 
Ossory. 

Those  of  this  name  attainted  in  1642  were  Richard  Clinch 

of  Cappah,  with  Henry  of  Kill  and  Anne  his  wife. In 

1677  William  Clynch  had  a  confirmatory  patent  for  1,099 
acres  in  Gralway.  In  1691,  only  Peter  and  Simon  Clinch, 
described  as  of  the  College,  Dublin,  were  outlawed,  one  of 
those  appears  to  have  been  a  Lieutenant  in  Lord  Abercom's 
Horse.  A  James  Clinch,  described  as  of  Dunshaughlin, 
County  of  Meath,  was,  in  June,  1747,  married  to  Sarah 
Wood  of  the  same  place,  at  Holyhead,*  the  penal  laws 
affecting  Ireland  necessitating  the  celebration  of  this  union 
out  of  the  kingdom. 


CAPTAIN  THOMAS  DENN. 

The  surname  of  '  Denn*  is  found  in  Louth  in  the  time  of 
Edward  the  Second;  in  subsequent  records  as  de  Dene  or 


*  RegistiT'  at  Holyhead,  wherein,  as  also  in  that  at  Bangor,  are  very 
many  other  certificates  of  Irish  families  married  under  similar  drcum- 
Btanoes,  as  noted  off  by  the  compiler  of  this  Tolmnew 


456  KINO  JAM£8*8  IRISH  ABMT  LIST. 

de .  Denn.  Thomas  de  Dene,  Knight,  appears  on  the 
Chancery  Rolls  in  1326,  as  does  the  assignment  of  dower  to 
hifl  widow,  Sibilla,  1334.  In  1355  Fulco  de  Den  was  a 
landed  proprietor,  and  tenant  in  capite  in  Kilkenny.  B^inald 
Dene  did  military  service  in  1359,  with  thirty-three  hobillers 
for  four  days,  Thomas  Botiller  being  joined  with  him  at  this 
hosting.  Thomas  Den  succeeded  to  the  see  of  Ferns  in  1363. 
In  1499  Fulco  Den  brought  his  writ  of  assise  in  the  nature 
of  ejectment,  against  William  and  Kichard  Den  for  tenements 
at  Lewestown  in  Balkenny. 

Thomas  Den,  son  and  heir  of  Patrick  of  Grenane  Castle  in 
said  county,  had  livery  of  his  estate  there  in  1605 ;  as  had  his 
son,  Patrick,  junior,  in  some  few  years  after.  This  latter 
Patrick  married  a  daughter  of  Nicholas  Shortall  of  Upper 
Claragh.  In  1 609  Fulke  Denn,  being  seised  of  lands  within  the 
manor  of  Grenan,  settled  them  to  family  uses,  t.«.,  to  his  own  for 
life,  remainder  to  his  wife  Catherine,  if  she  survived  him,  during 
her  widowhood,  and,  after  her  death  or  marriage,  to  Theobald 
the  second  son  of  said  Fulke  in  tail  male ;  like  remainder  to 
Garrett,  Fulke's  third  son.  Fulke  died  in  1626,  leaving 
Patrick,  his  son  and  heir,  then  aged  forty-four  and  married, 
but  afterwards  attainted.  Grenan  was  not,  however,  in  con- 
sequence of  the  aforesaid  previous  settlement  of  1609,  con- 
fiscated by  Patrick^s  attainder.  In  the  grants,  soon  aftier 
the  Restoration,  of  Ealkenny  lands  to  William  Poulter,  to 
William  Warden,  to  Christopher  Hewetson,  to  Anthony 
Horsey,  to  Barnard  Annaly,  to  George  Deyos,  and  to 
Anthony  Stampe,  are  several  savings  of  the  rights  of 
Theobald  Denn,  in  the  various  subjects  of  conveyance,  under 
his  decree  of  innocence  in  1663,  while  Thomas  Denn  had  in 
1682  a  confirmatory  grant  of  Saggart  in  the  County  of 
Dublin,  194  acres,  with  powers  for  holding  markets  and 


SIR  MAUKiCE  Eustace's  inpantbt.  457 

fairs  there.  Tobias  Den  of  Grenan  was  attainted  in  1691,  as 
was  William  Den  of  Saggard,  aforesaid;  at  which  latter 
locality  a  farm  was  forfeited  by  Thomas  Den,  the  fee  whereof 

was  claimed  by  and  allowed  to  John  Den.     A Denn 

was  Lieutenant  in  Lord  Kilmallock's  In&ntry,  and  three  of 
this  name  were  Captains  in  Charles  O'More's. 


CAPTAIN  THOMAS  HUSSEY. 

This  family,  Hossey  or  Hoese,  is  of  Norman  extraction.  On 
the  first  invasion  of  Lreland,  Sir  Hugh  Hussey,  who  had 
married  the  sister  of  Theobald  Fitz- Walter,  the  first  Butler 
of  that  Ejngdom,  obtained  a  grant  from  Hugh  de  Lade  of 
large  possessions  in  the  County  of  Meath,  including  the 
locality  of  Galtrim;  in  right  of  which  this  family  took  the 
palatine  title  of  Barons  of  Graltrim;  while  within  the  circuit 
of  the  same  county,  andent  Meath,  the  Petits  were  Barons 
of  Mullingar,  the  D'Altons  of  Bathconrath,  Nangles  of 
Navan,  Marwards  of  Serine,  etc.,  etc.  In  1340  John  Husee, 
John  de  Wellesleye,  and  others,  with  thdr  men-at-arms,  were 
stationed  at  Castle-mac-Kinnegan,  to  resist  the  predatory 
incursions  of  the  O'Bymes  on  the  Pale;  and  in  1359  this 
John  Husee,  styled  Knight,  was  summoned  to  two  great 
Councils  held  in  Dublin.  He  was  the  Baron  of  Galtrim,  and 
was,  as  such,  summoned  in  1374  and  1377  to  Parliament,  as 
was  his  son,  Edmond  Hussey,  Baron  of  Galtrim,  to  those  of 
1380  and  1382,  in  which  latter  year  he  was  Constable  of 
Carbry  Castle.  Baron  Edmund  died  three  years  after,  when 
his  estates  were  granted  to  George  Merrett  during  the 
minority  of  his  son  and  heir,  Peter,  together  with  the  custody 
of  the  dower  portion  of  Matilda,  the  widow  of  said  Edmund, 


458  KIKO  JAMES'S   IRISH  ABHT  LIST. 

and  with  the  '  maritagium'  of  said  Peter.  In  1403  the  King 
confirmed  to  Mathew  Husee,  Baron  of  Graltrim,  the  manors 
of  Galtrim,  Mojlhusaey,  Roemyde,  and  Clonamjn,  with  many 
townlands  in  Meath ;  he  had  a  further  grant  from  the  same 
monarch  in  five  years  after,  in  consideration  of  his  heavy  costs 
incurred  in  the  King's  service. 

The  Patent  Bolls  of  1421  exhibit  an  interesting  petition  of 
Nicholas  Husee,  confirmatory  of  the  pedigree  of  this  fiunily, 
setting  forth  as  it  does  that  Edmund  Husee,  late  Baron  of 
Galtrim,  died  seised  of  simdry  messuages,  lands,  and  premises, 
in  Moylhussey,  which  he  held  of  the  de  Mordmer,  as  of  his 
manor  of  Trim ;  that  said  Edmund  left  a  son,  Peter,  his  heir 
(as  aforesaid),  then  aged  five  years,  that  said  Peter  aftierwards 
died  without  issue,  when  said  manor  of  Moylhussey  descended 
to  his  only  sister,  Margaret,  then  also  under  age ;  that  she, 
marrying  Robert  Orell,  they  both  entered  upon  said  in- 
heritance;  that  said  Margaret  dying  without  issue  male,  her 
aunt  Margaret,  daughter  of  John  Hussey,  Knight,  succeeded 
to  a  moiety  of  said  manor,  and  she  enfeoffed  the  petitioner, 
Nicholas,  thereof  in  fee.  This  claim  was  opposed,  however, 
as  that  the  said  Peter  did  not  die  seised  thereof,  but  that 
same,  as  well  as  the  premises  in  Bosmyde  and  Clonamyn, 
were  at  the  time  vested  in  '  Richard  Roe^^  who  conveyed  same 
to  Hugh  Husee,  Knight,  for  life,  with  remainder  to  William 
Husee  and  Beatrice  his  wife,  and  the  heirs  of  their  bodies. 
That  said  William  and  Beatrice  became  seised  thereof,  and 
had  issue,  John  Husee,  Knight,  who,  as  their  son,  became 
seised  thereof,  and  he  had  Jssue,  John,  Edmund,  Margaret, 
and  Johanna;  that  John  the  younger  succeeded  his  father, 
and  had  issue  Paula  his  heiress,  who  died  an  infant,  without 
issue ;  that  Edmund,  John's  brother,  succeeded,  and  he  had 
issue  Peter  and  Margaret,  both  of  whom  died  without  issue; 


8IR  MAURICE   EUSTACE'S  INFANTBT.  459 

that  Margaret  and  Richard  Bathe  are  now  (1422)  the  next  of 
kin,  and  heirs  of  said  Peter,  and  on  this  claim,  suggestive  of 
an  ejectment,  the  King's  Escheator  was  ordered  to  deliver  the 
possesion  of  said  manors  and  lands  to  Margaret  and  Bichard, 
and,  while  they  had  a  subsequent  oonfirmation  of  their  right 
to  said  manors  of  Galtrim,  Rosmyde,  and  Clonamyn,  the 

petitioner  had  a 'similar  assurance  for  that  of  Moylhussey. 

Thomas  Hussie  is  recognised  as  Baron  of  Galtrim  in  a  patent 
of  1431,  as  was  Nicholas  Husee  in  another  of  1442.  The 
Foot  Masters,  relating  the  obits  in  a  great  plague  which 
raged  in  the  summer  and  harvest  of  1447,  name  the  Baron  of 
*  Calatrim'  (Galtrim)  as  one  of  its  victims ;  and  at  1460  they 
record  a  great  defeat  given  by  Con,  son  of  Calvach  O'Connor- 
Failey,  to  the  English,  in  which  the  Baron  of  'Calatrim,'  with 
many  others,  was  slain.  In  1506  Patrick  Hussey,  who 
married  Matilda,  the  widow  of  William  Wellesley  of 
D^oigyn,  Knight,  was  obliged  to  purchase  a  pardon  from  the 
Crown  for  the  connection,  she  having  been  originally  bom  of 
the  sept  of  O^Toole. 

Sir  Bernard  Burke,  in  his  Landed  Gentry^  gives  the 
succession  of  these  Barons  to  the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth, 
early  in  whose  reign  a  member  of  the  family,  obtaining  a 
grant  of  lands  from  the  Eaii  of  Desmond,  settled  in  the 
County  of  Kerry  and  established  the  name  there,  where  it 
still  exists.  An  Act  of  Heniy  the  Eighth  in  1534,  recog- 
nizing Nicholas  Hussey  as  then  Baron  of  Galtrim,  united  the 
parsonage  thereof,  theretofore  claimed  as  of  his  patronage, 
to  the  Religious  House  of  St.  Peter's  by  Trim.  In  the  com- 
mencement of  the  reign  of  James  the  First,  died  Walter 
Hussey  of  Moylhussey,  leaving  Thomas  his  son  and  heir, 
then  of  full  age  and  married.  He  died  in  1629,  Edwasd,  his 
son  and  heir,  being  then  aged  twenty-two  and  married.    The 


460  KIKO  JAKES'S  IBISH  AKHT  LIST. 

Attainders  of  1642  proscribe  nine  of  this  name  in  Meath  and 
two  in  Elildare,  while  two  others  were,  in  Cromwell's  ordi- 
nance of  denunciation  of  1652,  excepted  firom  pardon  ibr  life 
and  estate.  In  1669  William  Hussey  passed  patent  for  lands 
in  Westmeath  and  Tippeiary. 

Besides  the  three  Husseys  in  this  Regiment,  James  Hussey 
was  a  Lieutenant  in  Lord  Louth's.  In  the  Parliament  of 
1689  Maurice  Hussey  of  Flesk  Bridge  (hereafter  alluded  to) 
was  one  of  the  representatives  of  the  Borough  of  Tndee. 
He  married  Clare,  daughter  of  Sir  Edward  Hales,  Baronet, 
who  was  created  by  James,  after  his  abdication.  Earl  of 
Tenderden.  John  Hussey  was  one  of  the  B«presentatives  of 
Dingle-i-couch,  as  was  another  John  Hussey  of  Batoath. 
Nine  of  the  name  were  in  1691  attainted  in  Meath,  three  in 
Kerry,  one  in  Louth,  with  Edward  Hussey  of  Westown,  in 
the  County  of  Dublin. 

This  last  individual  (Edward  of  Westown),  though  not 
named  in  the  present  Army  List,  appears  in  that  preserved 
in  the  British  Museum  as  a  Captain  in  Lord  Gormanston's 
Infantry.  He  was  engaged  'for  King  James  in  this  war, 
attained  the  rank  of  Colonel,  and  so  styled  he  was,  by  the 
Council  Board,  adjudged  entitled  to  the  benefit  of  the  Articles 
of  Limerick.  He  is  also  so  described  in  a  family  settlement 
executed  by  his  mother-in-law,  the  Countess  of  Fingal,  in 
1693,  and  in  various  other  ancient  deeds.  In  a  chauntry  of 
the  old  church  at  the  Naul,  near  Westown  House,  is  still 
preserved  a  mural  slab,  stating  that  the  Honourable  Colonel 
Hussey  and  his  lady,  Madame  Mable  Hussey,  otherwise 
Bamewall,  had  erected  this  chapel  and  monument,  for  their 
use  and  that  of  their  posterity,  in  1710.*  John  Hussey  of 
« 

*  D'AUorCs  HisL  County  ofDublm,  p.  486. 


SIB  MAUBICE   EUSTACE'S  INFANTRY.  461 

Culmullen  had  also  a  pardon  under  the  Great  Seal,  and  James 
Hussey,  having,  like  Colonel  Edward,  obtained  a  judicial 
acknowledgment  of  his  right  to  the  benefit  of  the  Articles  of 
Limerick,  preferred  a  claim  at  Chichester  House,  in  1700,  to 
the  Meath  estates  of  his  ancestor,  Thomas  Hussey ;  at  which 
time  Jane  Hussey,  otherwise  Telling,  by  her  husband  Thomas 
Telling,  and  on  behalf  of  Christopher  and  Lucy,  their  eldest  son 
and  daughter,  and  Edward,  Val,  Mary,  Catherine,  and  Ellen, 
minors,  their  younger  children,  claimed  jointure  for  herself 
and  portions  for  them,  off  the  Meath  estates  of  said  Thomas 
Hussey  ;  but  their  petitions  were  dismist  as  cautionary. 
These  estates  were  afterwards  purchased  by  Isaac  Holroyd. 
A  Colonel  Maurice  Hussey,  he  of  Flesk  Bridge  in  the  County 
of  Kerry,  above-mentioned,  and  who  had  been  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  in  Mac  Elligott's  Infantry,  yielded  to  the  altered 
state  of  government,  and  some  of  his  letters  to  Secretary 
Southwell  in  the  time  of  Queen  Anne  are  in  the  Southwell 
collection.*  In  one  dated  7th  June,  1703,  he  writes  com- 
plaining of  a  severe  visitation  of  the  gout,  and  adds,  '*  Here 
was  lately  a  foolish  report  that  spread  over  all  our  mountains, 
that  several  Irish  Regiments  were  to  be  immediately  raised 
for  the  Queen's  service,  to  go  into  Portugal,  and  that  I  was 
to  have  one.  Upon  this  rumour,  all  the  Milesian  Princes  of 
these  parts  flocked  to  my  house,  'to  offer  their  service  to  go 
along  with  me  to  any  part  of  the  world;  and  they  would 
scarce  believe  but  that  I  had  my  commission  in  my  pocket, 
and  I  could  not  but  take  their  offers  and  readiness  for  the 
Queen's  service  kindly,  and  made  them  all  as  welcome  as  my 
poor  house  could  afford,  and  that,  I  '  phancie,'  has  brought 
this  fit  of  the  *  goute '  upon  me.     Mac  Cartie  More,  O'Sul- 

*  Thorpe's  CataL  SouthoeU  MSS.,  pp.  227-8. 


48S  KING  JAMES'S  IBI8H  ARMT  LIST. 

livan  More,  O'Donohue  More,  Mac  Gillicuddy,  Mac  Finin, 
O'Leary,  and  a  long  et  ccetera  of  the  best  gentlemen  of  the 
Irish  of  these  parts,  are,  in  a  manner,  mad  to  be  employed 
in  her  Majesty's  service  abroad,  and  swear  I  must  go  at  the 
head  of  them,  whether  I  will  or  no/'  A  comment  on  this 
ColoneTs  correspondence  says,  ^'Notwithstanding  his  obser- 
vations, there  is  every  reason  to  suspect  the  Colonel  of  being 
a  Jacobite.  His  patron  the  Duke  of  Ormond,  Southwell, 
and  the  whole  body  were  silent  &vourers  of  the  Stuart 
int^^ests."^ 

The  Colonel  Edward  Hussey,  before  mentioned,  was 
grand&liher  of  an  Edward  Hussey  of  Westown,  who  married 
in  1743  the  celebrated  Duchess  of  Manchester,  and  was 
created  Earl  Beaulieu  in  1784.  There  have  been  several  of 
the  Husseys  since  signaKged  in  the  Austrian  armies;  (me, 
Anthony,  a  son  of  the  kte  Anthony  Stronge  Hussey,  the 
inheritor  of  Westown  House,  D.L.,  is  at  present  a  Brevet 
Major  in  that  service;  while  in  the  obits  of  1803  in  Dublin 
occurs  that  of  John  Hussey,  styled  '  Baron  of  Galtrim,'  who 
had  been  a  Captain  in  the  Austrian  army.  He  was  the 
grandson  of  James,  the  Lieutenant  in  Lord  Louth's  Lifantry, 
and  is  at  this  day  represented  by  his  grandson,  Edward 
H(»ratio  Hussey. 


CAPTAIN  OLIVER  ROCHFOET. 

This  name  ('  de  Bupe  forti')  is  traced  in  Irish  records  from 
the  first  year  of  the  English  invasion.  In  1194  Simon 
Bochfbrt  succeeded  to  the  See  of  Meatb;  at  which  time 
Henry  de  Rupe  Forti  was  Lord  of  Maynam  in  Ealdare.  In 
the  subsequent  century,  when  Edward  the  First   invited 


SIB  MAURICE   EUSTACE'S   INFANTBY.  463 

the  aid  of  the  Magnates  of  Ireland,  to  accompany  him  in 
the  TTar  on  Scotland,  he  selected  no  less  than  six  of  this 
name.  In  1310  Maurice  de  '*  Bocheford'  was  summoned  to 
the  Parliament  of  Kilkenny ;  in  which  year  the  King  com- 
mitted to  Lysagh  O'More  the  lands  of  Patrick  de  Bupe  Forti 
in  the  Leix.  Richard  de  Bocheford  was  in  1326  Constable 
of  the  Castle  of  Kilkenny,  as  was  €rerald  of  that  of  Ferns 
soon  after.  In  1337  Maurice  Bochefort  succeeded  to  the  see 
of  Limerick,  and  in  1358  David  de  Bocheford,  Knight,  was 
summoned  to  attend  a  Great  Coimcil  in  Waterford.  In  nine 
years  after,  on  the  death  of  John  de  Bochford,  Knight,  the 
King  commanded  his  Escheator  to  assign  to  his  widow  reason- 
able dower,  first  taking  security  that  she  shall  not  marry 
again,  vrithout  obtaining  license  therefor.  In  1382  Margaret, 
daughter  and  heiress  of  John  Bochfort  deceased  havii^  mar- 
ried Gerald  Fitz  Maurice,  Earl  of  Kildare,  petitioned  the 
Crown  for  her  inheritance,  which  had  been  unjustly  escheated, 
and  it  was  thereupon  restored  to  her.  In  1408  John  Boch- 
fort and  Elizabeth  his  wife  had  livery  of  the  manor  of  Kilbride. 
In  1450  the  Elng  appointed  John  Bochefort,  styled  of 
Eollane,  Sheriff  of  the  County  of  Kilkenny ;  and  in  1464,  at 
a  Parliament  held  in  Wexford,  an  act  was  passed  to  assure 
a  part  of  the  manor  of  Bathconrath  in  Western  Meath  to 
Bobert  and  Boger  Bochfort. 

The  Attainders  of  1642  name  three  Bochforts  in  Kildare, 
four  in  Meath,  and  one  in  the  County  of  Dublin.  Of  the 
Supreme  Council  of  Ealkenny  in  1646,  were  Hugh  Bochfort 
of  Taghmon,  and  John  of  Ealbride.  In  March,  1651,  a 
Colonel  Bochfort  was  tried  by  Court  Martial  in  St.  Patrick's 
Cathedral,  Dublin,  by  the  usurping  Powers,  and  was  shot  to 
death  according  to  his  sentence ;  while,  in  the  Act  of  Settle- 
ment (1662),  King  Charles  especially  thanked  Henry  Boch- 


464  Knro  jaxbs's  isish  abmt  list. 

fort  of  Kilbride  *'  for  services  beyond  sea."  In  1691  the 
above  Captain  Oliver  was  attainted,  being  described  as  of 
Fiddolphy  County  of  Meath;  Christopher  of  Carronstown 
and  James  of  Vesingstowu,  in  the  same  Coonty,  were  also 
then  outlawed.  It  is  to  be  remarked  that  a  Robert  Bochfort 
(it  would  seem  of  the  aforesaid  Westmeath  branch)  was  in 
1700  nominated  on  commisnon  a  Keeper  of  the  Great  Seal, 
and  in  1707  was  appointed  Chief  Baron  of  the  Irish  Ex- 
chequer. 


LIEUTENANT  CONEL  COONAN. 

This  officer  was  attainted  in  1691  by  the  style  of  'Cornelius* 
Coonan  of  Kilcock,  in  the  County  of  Kildare;  nothing  fiirther 
is  known  of  him  or  hb  family. 


CAPTAIN  FRANCIS  SEGRAVE. 

The  name  of  Segrave  or  Sedgraye  is  of  record  in  Ireland 
from  the  time  of  Edward  the  Second,  the  chief  seat  of  the 
&mily  being  early  mentioned  as  at  Killeglan,  in  the  County 
of  Meath.  In  1322  Stephen  Segrave,  who  had  been  thereto- 
fore Rector  of  Stepney,  near  London,  was  appointed  to  the 
Primacy  of  Armagh.  Of  him  King  Edward  the  Third  wrote 
soon  after  his  accession,  to  the  Pope,  commending  him  for 
'Hhe  nobility  of  his  birth,  the  integrity  of  his  morab,  his 
eminent  sanctity,  and  approved  diligence  in  his  pastoral 
function."  *     A  writ  of  1327  yet  more  illustrates  the  nobility 

•  War^t  Bishops^  p.  81. 


SIB  MAUItlGfi  EUSTACE'S   INFANTRY.  465 

of  this  name,  showing  as  it  does  that  William,  son  of  William 
St.  Leger,  who  had  previously  died  sdsed  of  the  manor  of 
Bargy,  held  same  from  John  de  Segraye  and  Margaret  his 
wife,  one  of  the  sisters  and  heiresses  of  the  Earl  of  Norfolk. 
In  1389  the  King  committed,  to  Richard  'Sydgreve,*  the 
custody  of  all  the  estates  of  Edmund  de  Mortimer,  late  Earl 
of  March,  in  Athboy ,  &c.  When  Henry  the  Fourth,  in  the 
first  year  of  his  reign,  committed  to  the  Constable  of  the 
Castle  of  Carlow  the  custody  of  all  the  manors,  lands,  and 
services  in  the  Counties  of  Carlow,  Kildare,  and  Wexford, 
which  had  belonged  to  Margaret,  late  Duchess  of  Norfolk, 
who  held  of  the  Crown  in  capit$,  and  which,  by  the  death  of 
said  Duchess,  had  come  to  the  King*s  hands,  and  now  by  the 
death  of  Thomas  Mowbray,  late  Duke  of  Norfolk,  cousin  and 
heir  of  said  Puke,  and  by  reason  of  the  minority  of  his  heir, 
were  then  in  the  Crown,  Richard  *  Sydegrave'  of  the  County 
of  Meath  was  accepted  as  one  of  the  sureties  for  said  Con- 
stable. Thb  Riphard  was  in  1401  appointed  a  Baron  of  the 
Irish  Exchequer,  and  in  1409,  at  his  instance  and  on  the 
petition  of  the  Provost  and  Corporation  of  Carlingford,  and 
the  teiumts  of  the  I^ordship  of  Coly,  showing  how  that  little 
town  and  Lordship,  lying  in  a  vaUey  between  the  hiUs  and 
the  sea,  cut  off  from  the  rest  of  the  county,  had  been  burnt 
and  wasted  by  Irish  and  Scotch,  the  King  granted  that, 
until  Edmund,  son  and  heir  of  Roger  late  Earl  of  March, 
whose  estate  they  were,  should  be  of  age,  the  said  town  and 
Lordship  should  be  exempt  from  all  subsidies,  taxes,  and 
charges.  In  1423  this  Richard  was  promoted  to  be  Chief 
Baron.  In  1578  another  Richard  Segrave  was  also  a  Baron 
of  the  Irish  Exchequer,  which  office  he  filled  for  twenty 
years  and  died  at  Killeglan,  leaving  James,  his  son  and  heir, 
then  of  age  and  unmarriedt    This  son  died  in  1598  8.p,, 

VOL.  II.  2  H 


466  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ABMT  UST. 

when  Nidiolas,  his  brother,  stjkd  of  BaUyhack,  soeoeeded, 
aged  twenty-four.  Another  Bichard  died  in  1590,  whose 
son  and  heir,  James  Segntve,  then  aged  nine,  died  in  1594, 
when  Lawrenoe  his  brother,  then  aged  seven,  became  heir. 

In  1604  Bichard,  son  and  heir  of  Christopher  Sedgrave, 
had  livery  of  his  estate,  while  in  two  years  after  Aldennaa 
Walter  Sedgrave  of  Dublin  was  commanded,  according  to 
the  existing  penal  law  to  attend  divine  service  at  his  paridi 
church  or  at  Christ  Church.  Edmund  Puicell,  Patzick 
Browne,  Michael  Chamberlain,  James  Bellew,  Thomas  Car- 
roll, Hiomas  Plunkett,  and  Robert  Kennedy,  all  Aldermen 
of  Dublin,  reoeived  then  similar  mandates;  as  did  John 
Malone,  elerk  of  the  Thols^,  Greorge  Devenish  of  Dublin, 
merchant,  Thomas  Fleming  of  Drogheda,  meidumt,  Edwaard 
Malone  of  Dublin,  Philip  Dowdall  of  Drogheda,  &e.  In 
1611  Eii%  James  granted  to  the  aforesaid  Alderman  Walter 
Sedgrave,  of  Dublin,  premises  in  that  mty,  theretof^wre  parcel 
of  the  possessions  of  the  Priory  of  St  John  the  Baptist, 
without  Newgate;  while  Ware  records,  in  his  Antiquitiesy 
that  about  the  year  1629  Mr.  Laurence  Segrave,  an  Irish 
priest,  purchased  pri^mises  at  Antwerp,  which,  with  the  con- 
sent of  the  existing  Diocesan,  he  erected  into  one  of  the 
earliest  foreign  colleges,  for  twelve  or  sixteen  priests,  of  which 
establishment  himself  was  the  first  President. 

A  branch  of  the  family  having  settled  at  Cabnigh  in  the 
County  of  Dublin,  it  is  of  record  that  Henry  Segrave,  on 
coming  of  age  in  1638,  sued  out,  according  to  the  then  still 
existing  law  of  wardship,  a  lieense  for  'liv^y'  of  hb  estates 
tliere.  In  the  foUowing  year  Richard  Segrave  of  Ballybogfaill, 
in  the  last  mentioned  county,  was  the  King's  Escheator. 
Patrick  Segrave  of  Killeglan  was  one  of  the  influential 
Catiiolies  who  attended  tiie  great  meetioig  of  Tara  in  1641, 


BIB  MAUBICB  BUOTACB'B  INTAKTItT  467 

and  was  consequently  attainted  In  the  following  year.  The 
Captain  Francis  here  in  commission,  was  of  Fiyarstown, 
County  of  Ealdare ;  John  Segrave  of  Cabragh  was  a  Captain 
in  the  King^s  In&ntry,  ai^d  JjfLareiioe  was  a  Lieutenant  in 
this.  The  Attainders  of  1691  present  the  names  of  said 
Captain  JpbQ  Segrave  of  Cabra,  with  those  of  Gilbert  and 
Ni<dbola9  Segrave  of  Ballyhack,  and  the  aboye  Francis. 

In  1783  died*  at  his  seat  of  Cabragh,  John  Segmye, 
Colon0l  of  the  Finglas  Volunteers ;  he  was  interred  with  all 
military  honours  at  $t.  James's  churchyard^  long  the  chosen 
place  of  sepulture  for  the  higher  class  of  Jrish  Catholics. 


CAPTAIN  EDWAKD  MASTERSDN. 

This  fitioUy  is  located  on  Or(;eUus's  Map  in  the  Sarpny  of 
SkdmaUere«  County  of  Wexfoid«  In  1621  Bpberti  son  a^d 
heir  pf  NichoUus  Masterson  of  Ardcropiari  m  that  Counly, 
died,  leaving  Edtpard  his  son  iu»d  heir,  then  but  three  years 
old,  Bxxd  inost  prpb^ly  this  officer,  who  is  described  in  his 
ajbtninder  as  of  Moaeyf^,  tiierein ;  the  others  l^en  uttainted 
being  John,  Richard,  Nicholas,  and  Dominiiok  Masterson  '  of 
Tomcoil,'  and  Ale^u^nd^r  of  Lydon,  all  in  the  same  county. 


CAPTAIN  THOMAS  AND  ENSIGN  ANDREW 

ASPOLE. 

The  surname  attributed  to  these  officers  appears  erroneously 
set  down,  and  should,  possibly,  have  been  '  Archbold,'  at  least 
no  trace  of  an  '  Aspole'  has  been  discovered  of  Irish  record. 


468  xuro  jahes's  ibish  Asmr  ubt. 


LIEUTENANT  MICHAEL  BEBFORD. 

This  name  10  of  record  in  Ireland  fSrom  the  time  of  Edward 
the  First.  In  1314  Kchaid  de  Berford  was  Chancellor  of 
Ireland,  having  been  previonslj  on  a  commisdon,  to  inquire 
into  the  rights  in  the  weirs  and  waters  of  the  liffey,  between 
Dublin  and  the  Salmon-leap.  In  1403  Simon  'Berfford' 
was  one  of  those  appointed  to  assess  and  arraj  the  men  of  the 
Barony  of  Batoath,  County  of  Meath.  On  his  death,  in  ten 
years  after,  his  estates  of  Ejlrowe,  d».,  in  said  oounty,  became 
Tested  in  the  Crown  during  the  minority  of  his  heir,  whose 
wardship  and  marriage  were  thereupon  granted  to  Thomas 
'  Barre,*  rent  free.  Branches  of  the  fiunily  were  at  this  time 
proprietors  in  Lagore  and  Scurlockstown,  in  the  same  county. 
In  the  rdlgn  of  Elizabeth,  Michael  Berford  was  the  proprietor 
of  Ejlrowe,  as  heir  of  the  before  mentioned  Smon.  In  1618 
Nicholas  *  Byrford,*  who  had  been  theretofore  Clerk  of  the 
Crown,  Peace,  and  Sessions  in  Meath,  Westmeath,  Longford, 
Louth,  and  the  town  of  Drogheda,  was  seised  of  Newtown, 
near  Trim,  Culmullen  and  Scurlockstown,  in  the  County  of 
Meath;  and  in  1633  John,  son  and  heir  of  James  Berford, 
died  seised  of  Kilrowe,  leaving  Michael  his  cousin  and  heir, 
then  aged  thirty  years  and  married.  It  seems  probable  that 
he  was  the  grandfather  of  the  above  officer.  An  individual 
of  this  surname  was  a  Lieutenant  in  Lord  Clare's  Infantry, 
while,  on  the  dvil  establishment,  Ignatius  Berford  was  one  of 
the  Masters  in  Chancery. 


EARL  OF  WESTHSATH  S  INFANTBT. 


469 


ENSIGN  PATRICK  GODDING. 

This  name  does  not  appear  on  the  Attainders;  and  the 
manuscript  entry  appears  mistaken  for  '  Golding/  a  family 
that  had  been  for  long  previous  years  settled  at  Archerstown 
in  Westmeath. 


«    ■  > 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY- 


BABL  OF  W£S1^M£ATH'8,  LATE  COLONEL  FRANCIS  TOOLE's. 


The  GoloneL 

Ifichad  de  U  Hoyde, 
Lieat-CoL 

GowBii  Talbot, 
Mi^or. 

Wickham. 

John  White. 

Walsh. 

John  Doyle. 

Thomas  Neyflle. 

Thomas  CowdalL 

Qamtt  Byrne. 

•—«- Meade. 

John  Byrae. 

Charles  Toole. 

Hen.  Niieent^ 
Grenaa 


John  Doyle. 


Emigni. 


John  Toole. 

Biyan  McDonnell 
Garrett  NowlnL 

liatthew  Kearney. 


Daniel  Doyle* 

Matthew  CowdalL 
Patrick  CamklL 

IGlesBamewalL 


Bryan,  Chaplain, 

TuSiy,8urywn, 

Delamere,  CqpUtm  a  la  SmHe, 


470  UK&  JAHES'S  IttlfH  JLBHY  LIST. 


COLONEL  THE  EARL  OF  WESTMEATH. 

TfitE  materials,  which  the  compiler  of  this  work  has  amassed 
for  illustratiiig  the  noble  name  of  Nugent,  would  fill  a  large 
volume.  Its  descent  &om  the  illustrious  house  of  Bellesme, 
and  its  alliances  with  the  Royaltj  of  England  and  Spain  are 
shown  at  length  in  the  Peerage  of  Sir  Bernard  Burke.  In 
Ireland  it  is  of  record  from  the  time  when  Hugh  de  Lacy, 
the  powerful  Palatine  of  Meath,  granted  the  territory  of 
Delvin  to  Gilbert  de  Nugent.  In  1385  the  King  committed 
to  Thomas  Nugent  of  Ardeferry  the  custody  of  the  Castle  of 
Beauregard,  with  that  of  the  Manor  of  Fore,  and  such  fees 
as  the  Constable  thereof  had  been  accustomed  to  receive  from 
Edmund  Earl  of  March,  the  Lord  of  said  castle  and  manor. 
Thomas  Nugent  had  a  similar  grant  of  the  custody  of  the 
Castle  of  Demor  (Dimore),  which  was  situated  on  the 
marches  of  the  Irish  enemy.  This  Thomas  died  in  the 
following  year,  in  which  it  was  found  on  inquisition  that 
John,  son  of  John,  late  Baron  of  Delvin,  had  died  seised  of 
the  manor  of  Delvin,  which  he  held  &om  Boger,  son  and  heir 
of  Edmund  de  Mortimer,  late  Earl  of  March,  as  of  his  manor 
of  Trim;  and  that  Katherine,  daugfatef  of  John,  son  of  John, 
late  Baron  of  Delvin,^  the  sister  and  hdress  of  said  John,  son 
of  John,  was  of  full  age,  and  married  to  William,  son  of 
Nicholas  Nugent ;  the  Escheator,  who  had  seised  the 
property  under  the  law  of  Escheats,  was  therefore  ordered  to 
deliver  it  to  said  William  and  EAtherine.  In  1402  William, 
Baron  of  Delvin,  was  Sheriff  of  Meath,  on  election  of  the 
commons  of  that  County;  soon  afler  which  O'Connor,  'an 
Irish  enemy,'  having  burned  Mnllingar  and  robbed  the  King's 


BAXL  OF  W£STM£ATH'8  INFANTBT.  471 

lieges,  Richard,  Lord  Delvin,  son  of  the  aforesaid  William, 
took  him  prisoner,  and  delivered  him  to  the  Lord  Deputy. 
In  1449  said  Bichard  was  himself  Lord  Deputy  of  Lreland ; 
while  in  1463  Christopher  the  eleventh  Baron  of  Delvin,  was 
empowered  by  an  Act  of  Parliament  (unprinted)  to  call  out  a 
man  from  ev^ry  house  in  that  Barony,  for  the  object  of 
constructing  fortresses,  to  protect  the  Pale  against  the  inroads 
of  the  Lrishry;  and  in  1489  he  was  one  of  the  Irish  Peers 
whom  Henry's  policy,  after  his  victory  at  Stoke  over  the 
adherents  of  Lambert  Simnel,  invited  to  a  feast  at  Ghreenwich, 
where  that  impostor  was  forced  to  attend  as  a  menial  at  the 
Boyal  table.  In  1570  Nicholas  Nugent  was  constituted  a 
Baron  of  the  Irish  Exchequer.  In  1605  Richard,  brother 
and  heir  of  John  Nugent,  late  of  Clonaskeian,  in  Waterford, 
had  livery  of  his  estates ;  as  had,  in  1610,  Edward  Nugent 
cousin  and  heir  of  Edward  Nugent  of  Bracklin,  deceased. 
In  the  following  year  Bobert  Nugent  of  BaUynabnmagh, 
alias  Walshestown,  had  a  grant  of  the  manor  of  Disert,  with 
the  castle,  hall,  stone-bawn,  lough,  and  fish-pond;  the  great 
lough,  called  Lough-Ennell,  with  the  fishing  thereof  as  &r  as 
it  mears  with  the  lands  of  Disert  and  Kilcowle,  also  the  three 
islands  therein,  viz.,  the  Great  Island,  two  acres;  Bobbin's 
Island,  half*an-acre ;  and  Crow  Island,  one  acre:  the  great 
lough,  called  Lough  Waire,  and  certain  small  loughs  running 
thereout  into  the  Bog  of  Tullaghan,  with  sundry  islands, 
moors,  and  b<^.  In  1621  Bichard,  Baron  of  Delvin,  was 
created  Earl  of  Westmeath. 

The  inquisitions  for  attainder,  taken  on  the  name  in  1642, 
were  three  in  Meath,  three  in  Kildare,  and  eight  in  the 
County  of  Cork ;  while  Cromwell's  Parliamentary  denuncii^ 
tion  of  1652  excepted  from  pardon  for  hfe  and  estate  Bichard 
Nugent,  Earl  of  Westmeath.     He  was  the  grandfather  of 


472  KOTG  JAMSS'S  IKUH  ABUT  U8T. 

Thoottfl,  the  Eod  under  present  emadeniian,  who  had 
married  when  about  aizteen  jesn  of  age,  after  wUch  he  went 
to  tmrel,  and  cm  his  return  obtvned  the  enmmand  of  thu 
B^iment.  In  1686  James  Nugent  ivas  Sheriff  of  Longford, 
as  iras  Thomas  Nngient  Sheriff  of  Westmeath,  and  John  of 
Waterfoid,  in  the  sune  year.  In  King  James's  soooeeding 
Charters  to  the  Corpoiations  of  Irdand,  this  name  i^pears  in 
oflioe  on  those  of  Dublin,  Drogheda,  SwvNrds,  New  Boss, 
Deny,  Dongarvan,  and  St.  Jdhnatown,  Coontj  of  Dom^gaL 

Earl  Thomas's  B^ment  is  very  ino(»nplete  on  the  present 
Master,  and  has  bat  one  of  his  own  name.  In  the  other 
Regiments  of  the  list  it  is  very  nomeroasl j  displayed,  as  in 
SarsfieLd's  and  Henry  Lattrell's  Horse,  in  Lord  Dongan's 
DnigoonSi  and  in  Fits^ames's,  Tyrone's,  I&  Thomas 
Batkr^s,  Sir  John  Fitz^Gerald's,  and  Sir  Michael  Creagb's 
respectiye  B^ments  of  Infimtry.  Colonel  Bichard  Nogent 
commanded  another  Begiment  of  Infimtry;  James  Nagent 
was  Lieatenant-Colonel  in  Colonel  John  Hamilton's,  while  a 
Colonel  Walter  Nagent  is  recorded  as  haying  been  killed  at 
the  battle  of  Aoghrim.*  In  King  James's  Pariiament  of 
1689,  this  Bad  eat  in  the  House  of  Peers^  though  then  under 
age,  by  a  nmiki:  Boyal  dispensation  to  that  accorded  to  the 
Earl  of  Chmcarty,  as  before  mentioned  {ante  p.  116),  and 
notwithstanding  that  his  elder  brother,  the  rightful  Earl,  was 
then  living,  but  in  holy  orders  and  abroad.  In  the  Commons, 
Colonel  James  Nugent  was  one  of  the  Bepresentatives  of  St. 
Johnstown,  County  of  Donegal;  the  Honourable  William 
one  of  those  for  the  County  of  Westmeath.  (He  was  the 
youngest  eon  of  Bicbard,  the  second  Earl  of  Westmeath,  and 
distinguished  himeelf  in  Ejng  James's  service,  especially  by 


*  aCaUaghasCi  Green  Book^  p.  455. 


EABL   OF  WESTMEATH'S  INFA19TBT.  473 

forcing  the  pass  over  the  bridge  at  Portglenone  in  April, 
1689,  to  facilitate  approach  to  the  Aege  of  Deny;  he  was 
killed  at  Cavan  in  1690,  leaving  issue  by  his  wife,  who  was  a 
daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Newcomen ;  but  they  all  died,  s.p*) 
Edward  Nugent  of  Carlanstown  represented  the  Borough  of 
Mullingar;  John  Nugent  of  Donore,  and  Christopher  of 
Dardistown  were  the  Members  for  that  of  Fore ;  and  Christo- 
pher Nugent  of  Dublin  was  one  for  that  of  Strabane. 

On  the  second  day  of  the  session,  8th  of  May,  1689,  the 
Chief  Justice  Nugent,  then  just  created  Lord  Baron 
Biverston  (uncle  of  the  Earl  under  present  consideration), 
brought  in  a  Bill,  which  was  read  twice  that  day,  containing 
**  a  recognition  of  King  James's  title,  and  an  abhorrence  of 
the  Prince  of  Orange's  usurpation  and  of  the  defection  oT  the 
English.''  On  the  lOth,  it  received  the  third  reading,  (King 
James  being  himself  present  in  the  House),  and  was  sent 
down  to  the  Commons,  where  it  was  passed  on  the  following 
day ;  when  the  same  mover  introduced  the  Bill  for  encour* 
aging  trade  and  merchant  strangers,  and  on  the  13th  the 
more  memorable  Act  for  altering  the  Act  of  Settlement. 

This  talented  member  of  tiie  name  was  settied  at  Pallas, 
in  the  County  of  Gralway;  and,  having  attained  much 
eminence  at  the  bar,  was  appointed  King's  Counsel  in  1685, 
and  in  the  following  year  promoted  to  the  King's  Bench  as 
one  of  the  Justices;  the  King  directing  that  he,  Denis  Daly, 
a  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas,  and  Charies  Ingleby,  a 
Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  should  be  admitted  to  their  respec- 
tive o£5ices  without  taking  the  oatii  of  supremacy.  In  1687 
he  succeeded  to  the  Chief  Justiceship  of  his  Bench,  and  was 
on  the  3rd  of  April,  1689,  created  Baron  Biverston.     It  is  to 

*  ArehdtMt  Lodgers  Peerage^  vol  1,  p.  244« 


474  KllfO  JAMES'S  miSH  ABMT   LIST. 

be  espeoiaUy  remarked,  that  this  date  was  seven  days  h^ort 
that,  on  which  the  rebellion  was  declared  by  the  Act  of 
9  Will.  3,  c.  2,  to  hare  ccMnmeooed  in  Ireland.  With  snch  a 
title,  conferred,  when  James  the  Second  was  in  the  fiill  and 
nnrestredned  possession  of  the  regal  power  in  that  country ; 
de  facto  and,  in  the  eyes  of  many  de  jwrej  King,  Lord 
Biyerston  sat  a  Peer  in  the  F^liament  of  May,  1689.  On 
the  disastrous  issue  of  the  battle  'of  the  Boyne,  he  was  one  of 
the  Privy  Coundl  who  advised  King  James  to  retire  to 
France,  himself  still  continuing  to  bold  the  office  of  Secretary 
of  State;  and  when  Tyroonnel,  after  the  defeat  of  King 
William  from  before  Limerick,  felt  necessitated  to  pass  over 
to  the  Exile's  Court  at^  St.  Germains,  and  to  place  the 
govehunent  of  Ireland  in  the  hands  of  the  Duke  of  Berwick, 
that  young  and  inexperienced  nobleman  was  induced  by  some 
fictions  insinuation  to  dismiss  Lotd  Biverston  from  the 
Secretaryship  of  War,  which  he  then  held,*  and  actually  to 
confine  him  a  prisoner  in  Gralway.  On  the  return  of  Tyr- 
connel,  however,  to  Lreland,  he  was  immedtatdy  released. 
In  two  days  after  the  capitulation  of  Limerick,  he  recdved 
from  Lieutenant-General  Baron  de  Ginkell,  the  following 
recognition  of  his  title.  It  recites  that  *'  whereas  the  Bight 
Honourable  Thomas  Lord  Biverston  is  comprehended  in  the 
late  capitulation  with  the  Irish  army  at  Limerickf-and  thereby 
entitled  to  be  restored  to  his  real  and  personal  estate,  and  to 
all  other  advantages  accruing  by  the  said  capitulation;  and 
whereas  the  said  Lord  Biverston  made  suit  to  me  for  His 
Majesty's  protection  for  himself,  his  family,  and  tenants,  and 
for  my  passport  and  license  to  use  and  carry  fire-arms,  I  do 
bereby  receive  the  said  Lord  Biverston  into  their  Majestiea* 

*  Clarke*  James  U.^  vol  %  p.  42S. 


-^ 


EABL  07  WBSTMJBATH*8  INFiJITBT.  475 


epeeial  proteotioiif  with  his  fiunilj,  aervants,  real  and  personal 
iestates^  and  his  tenants,  their  fiunilies  and  personal  estates; 
and  do  hereby  empower  the  said  Lord  Biverston  and  his 
servants  to  cony  and  nse  three  cases  of  pistols,  three  swords, 
and  two  firelocks  for  the  defence  of  his  person,  house,  stock, 
and  goods,  and  do  hereby  order  all  officers  civil  and  military 
in  the  respective  connties,  where  any  part  of  his  real  estates 
lies,  to  restore  him  to  the  possession  thereof,  and  to  be  aiding 
and  assisting  to  him  in  order  to  receive  the  issues  and  profits 
thereof,  as  at  any  time  heretofore;  and  I  do  hereby  command 
all  officers  civil  and  military,  in  the  respective  garrisons 
between  Limerick  and  Galway,  to  sufier  the    said  Lord 
!Riverston,  his  lady,  fiunily,  servants,  goods,  and  carriages,  to 
pass  peaceably  from  Limerick  to  Ghdway,  or  his  dwellings 
house  in  the  County  of  Galway,  or  to  any  other  part  of  the 
Kingdom  a&  his  occasion  may  require ;  and  all  governors  and 
commanderfr>in-chief  in  Limerick,  and  all   other  garrisons 
between  Limerick  and  his  said  house,  are  hereby  required  to 
fornish  him  with  a  sufficient  convoy  from  garrison  to  garrison, 
from  Limerick  to  his  said  house  of  abode;  whereof  all  persons 
concerned  are  to  take  notice  at  their  peril.    Given  at  the 
Camp  before  Limerick,  this  5th  of  October,  1691.     Signed 
Bar.  de  GinkelL"*    It  is  an  interesting  document  to  look 
upon.    He  was,  however,  attainted,  and  his  title  disallowed^ 
as  conferred  after  James,  as  was  alleged,  had  abdicated  the 
English  Crown.     He  had  married  the  Honourable  Mary 
Anne  Bamewall,  daughter  of  Viscount  Kingsland,  by  whom 
he  had  issue  three  sons  and  five  daughters.    He  remained  in 
the  Kingdom  after  the  Bevolution,  and  died  in  1715. 

*  Copied  from  the  original,  in  the  posseanon  of  Lord  Riventon's  heir 
male. 


476  KING  James's  ibish  abht  list. 

His  eldest  son,  Bichard-Hyacinth  Nugent,  who  was 
attainted  in  1696,  fled  to  France,  and  there  remained  until 
1727;  previous  to  which,  on  his  proof  that  he  was  but  six 
years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  attainder,  and  that  he  had 
conformed  to  the  Protestant  religion.  King  George  consented 
to  the  passing  of  a  bill  in  the  English  Parliament,  whereby 
this  exile  was  permitted  to  return,  and  certain  privileges  were 
secured  to  him  for  the  recovery  of  his  lands,  rents,  &c.  The 
title  of  Biverston  was  subsequently  borne  by  the  succeeding 
heirs  male  of  the  first  Lord;  but  the  present  hdr,  Anthony- 
Francis  Nugent,  declined  its  assumption. 

At  the  Battle  of  the  Boyne«  Bobert  Nugent,  a  Comet  in 
Tyrconnel's  Horse,  was  wounded.  In  three  days  after,  three 
ecclesiastics  of  the  name  were  presented,  as  by  the  authority 
of  Ejng  James,  to  Irish  benefices:  Dr.  William  Nugent  to 
the  Bectory  of  Castletown-Delvin,  Dr.  Oliver  Nugent  to 
those  of  Ardmulchan,  Ballynagarvy,  and  Timole,  and  the 
Beverend  Bichard  Nugent  to  the  Bectory  of  Carrick.  In 
1691,  the  Earl|  who  was  Colonel  of  this  Begiment,  was 
indicted ;  but  he  having  been  one  of  the  hostages  exchanged 
for  the  due  observance  of  the  articles  of  Limerick,  the  out- 
lawry was  reversed,  and  he  was  restored  to  his  estates  and 
honours.  He  died  in  1752,  at  the  advanced  age  of  96. 
Others  of  the  name,  then  attainted,  were  three  in  Meath, 
forty-five  in  Westmeath,  four  in  Dublin,  (one  of  whom, 
Francis  Nugent,  held  the  office  of  deputy  prothonotary  of 
the  King^s  Bench),  one  in  Cavan,  five  in  Boscommon;  in 
Waterford  three,  Cork  three,  Drogheda  two,  and  in  Donegal 
one.  At- the  Court  of  Claims  various  petitions  were  pre- 
ferred, as  for  charges  affecting  the  several  estates  of  Sir  John 
Nugent,  Baronet,  of  Colonel  Bichard  Nugent,  and  Sir 
Thomas  Nugent,  of  Christopher  Nugent  in  Boscommon  and 


EARL  OF  WESTMEATH'S  INFAITTBT.  477 

Westmeath,  and  of  James  Nugent  in  the  latter  connty; 
while  the  above  Earl  and  the  aforesaid  Thomas,  Lord  Bivers- 
ton,  as  Executors  of  Bichard,  late  Earl  of  Westmeath,  claimed 
and  were  allowed  the  benefit  of  a  mortgage  affecting  Dardis- 
town  and  other  lands. 

[Christopher  Nugent,  who  had  inherited  Dardistown,  and 
whose  eldest  brother  Walter  had  been  killed  at  Aughrim, 
followed  the  Ez-EIing  to  France,  where  he  was  promoted  to 
the  rank  of  Major-General  and  Colonel  of  a  Begiment  of 
Horse,  which  did  effective  service.  Many  other  gallant 
officers  of  this  name  acquired  great  reputation  in  the  cam- 
paigns on  the  Continent,  after  the  capitulation  of  Limerick 
cast  them  out  from  their  native  soil.  Amongst  those  were 
the  Honorable  John  Nugent,  afterwards  fifth  Earl  of  West- 
meath  ;  the  Chevalier  and  Baronet  Peter  de  Nugent,  a 
Lieutenant-Oeneral  in  France;  and  at  the  present  day,  the 
gallant  Lavallin,  Count  and  Prince  Nugent,  a  venerable  Field 
Marshal  in  Austria,  was  actively  present  at  Solferino,  the 
last  of  the  Austrian  army  that  1^  the  town  after  that  closing 
engagement  of  the  Italian  campaign,] 


•^-» 


LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  MICHAEL 

DELAHIDE. 

This  family  is  upon  Irish  record  from  the  days  of  Bichard 
the  Second,  in  whose  time  Walter,  son  of  James  de  la  Hide, 
Knight,  was  appointed  Constable  of  the  Castle  of  Carbry. 
In  1527  Christopher  De  la  Hide  was  a  Justice  of  the  Irish 
Common  Pleas,  to  the  Chief-Justiceship  of  which  court 
Bichard  De  la  Hide  was  elevated  in  1532.    When  in  1528 


478  KIN0  JAKSS'B  IRISH  ARMT  I«IBT. 

O'Connor  (OflWey)  took  Lord  Delvin,  then  Viceroy  of 
Ireland,  prisoner,  Sir  Walter  de  la  Hyde  and  Waiter 
Wellesley  of  Dangan  were  oonumfleioned  to  expostulate  with 
the  Irish  ohief,  and  to  obtain  the  Deputy's  enlargement,  but 
they  were  unsuooessful  in  their  mediation,  and  his  Lordship 
wa«  held  in  confinement  until  O^Connor's  pension  (whidi  had 
been  stopped)  was  restored  to  him  by  an  order  of  state.  In 
1537  the  Act  for  the  Attainders,  consequeM  upon  the 
G^raldine  rebellion,  included  ^that  most  falae,  disloyal  tcaytor* 
James  Delahyde,'  'the  prindpal  oouncillor  of  tbe  Lord 
Thomas  Fitz-Gerald  in  all  his  doings^'  (son  and  heir  of  the 
aforesaid  Walter  de  la  Hide  of  Moyglare,  Knight)^  with  John 
de  la  Hide  and  Edward  Delahide,  Persoii  of  £i]b»y,  and 
diyera  others.  By  a  subsequent  Statute  of  Queen  Elizabeth, 
however,  in  1585,  after  reciting  these  attainders  of  the 
Delahide  fkmily,  Laurence  de  la  Hide,  the  son  of  said  James, 
and  grandson  of  Sir  Walter  of  Moyglare,  was,  by  the  Queen 
and  Parliament,  restored  to  his  ancient  blood  and  lineage.  In 
1606  Anthony,  son  and  h^  of  Bichard  'Delahoyde,'  late  of 
Lough  Shene  in  the  County  of  Dublin,  had  liyery  of  his 
family  estate;  as  had  Luke  Delahoyde  in  1615,  as  son  and 
heir  of  Bichard  Delahoyde  of  Moyglare,  deceased.  In  1642 
Francis  Delahoyde  of  Phepoestown,  County  of  Dublin,  was 
attainted;  as  was  Nicholas  'Delahoyde'  of  Camagjb,  County 
of  Kildare  in  1691.  Lieutenant^olonel  Michael  appears  to 
have  been  of  the  Moyglare  line,  but  no  certain  notice  of  him 
has  been  discovered.  «-*««<-' Delahoyde  was  an  Ensign  in  Lord 
Slane's  In&ntiy. 


EABL  OF  WESTtfJCATB'8  IHFANTBT.  479 


CAPTAIN  ^—  WICKHAM. 

In  1335  Thomas  Wycoumbe  sued  out  a  posseseoiy  writ.  In 
the  reign  of  Biehard  the  Third,  Nieholas  *  Wycombe'  is  of 
record  as  in  Meath.  Marcus,  Christopher  and  Peter  Wicombe 
appear  on  the  Wicklow  attsdnders  of  1642,  as  do  Christopher 
and  John,  also  described  as  of  Wicklow,  on  the  Outlawries  of 
169X. 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  WHITE, 

This  same  is  traceable  on  the  records  of  Ireland  from  the 
period  of  the  Invasion.  The  Abbe  McGeogfaegan,  indeed, 
suggests  that  Walter  White,  in  Henry  the  Second's  time 
Govemor  over  a  certain  district  of  South  Wales,  came  over 
then  to  Ireland  with  his  brothers,  who  scattered  themselves 
over  that  country,  their  chief  house  being  at  LdxHp. 
OrteHus's  Map  more  especially  locates  the  name  in  ihe 
County  of  Down.  It  fi4)pear8  however  in  connection  with 
various  other  counties  of  Ireland.  In  1324  John  le  White 
had  a  vested  interest  in  Ballygarvan,  Kilkenny;  in  1346 
Thomas,  son  of  Bobert  White  of  Adare,  was  constituted  one 
of  tl^  guardians  of  the  peace  in  Limeridc,  wilii  power  to 
assess  and  array;  John  White  of  Sjiockbrin  was  of  the 
leading  gentay  who,  in  1356,  elected  its  Sheriff;  Adam  White 
was  at  this  time  ecmstable  of  the  castle  of  Cajshel.  Richard 
White  of  the  line  of  Clongell,  is  noticed  thare  in  1359 ;  and 
he  was  in  1373  summoned  to  a  Great  Council  John  White 
was  one  of  Ihe  two  Commissioners  appointed  in  1381  to  assess 


480  KING  JA3CBS'8  IRISH  ARMT  LIST. 

and  array  within  the  City  of  Limerick  for  a  hosting.  In 
1393  John,  son  of  Roger  White  of  Down,  was  Constable  of 
Grreen-Castie  in  Ulster,  and  subsequently  of  that  of  Carling- 
ford.  In  1386  Richard  White  was  Prior  of  the  splendid  mitred 
Religious  House  at  Kilmainham.  In  two  years  after,  Robert 
White  was  constituted  Treasurer  of  the  Liberty  of  Ulster 
and  Baron  of  the  Exchequer :  Nicholas  White  of  Clonmel 
was  then  a  Justice  in  eyre. 

The  Whites  of  Louth  and  Dublin,  having  adhered  to  the 
cause  of  Richard  the  Second,  their  estates  in  those  counties, 
including  Roche  Castie  near  Dundalk,  became  forfeited; 
they  had  however  subsequently  qualified  pardons.  Robert 
White,  who  was  at  this  time  Prior  of  the  great  House  of 
Kilmainham,  as  Richard  White  had  been  theretofore,  had 
license  of  absence  for  one  year  to  England  in  the  King's 
service.  Another  Richard  White  was  a  Juatiee  in  eyre  in 
1409,  in  which  year  James,  son  of  Jeffry  'Whit'  ^armiger^ 
had  a  license  to  send  his  children,  sons  and  daughters,  to  any 
of  the  sept  of  O'Neill  or  other  the  King's  enemies,  and  to 
make  partnerships  and  parleys  with  them  'for  the  King's 
advantage.'  In  1411  Henry  White  was  Abbot  of  the 
magnificent  Cistercian  establishment  at  Mellefont.  Henry 
the  Sixth,  in  the  first  year  of  his  reign  appointed  John  White 
his  attorney  as  well  in  the  Exchequer  as  in  the  Conmion 
Pleas,  with  an  annual  salary  of  100  shillings  and  all  other 
perquisites  and  emoluments,  In  1424  James  White,  Eoiight, 
had  a  confirmatory  grant  of  the  ofiSce  of  Constable  of  Carling- 
ford,  witii  the  customs  and  'ferriage'  and  the  lordship  of 
Coly,  to  hold  to  him  and  his  four  sons,  Christopher,  Lewis, 
John  and  Patrick.  John  White  was  then  Superior  of  the 
borough  town  of  Clonmel.  In  143X  James  White  of  Trim 
was  appointed  Chief  Remembrancer  of  the  Irish  Exchequer, 


EABL  OF  WESTMEATH'S  INFANXST.  481 

while  John  White  obtained  the  Chief  Seigeantcy  of  Louth« 
In  1518  Nicholas  White  senior  was  seised  of  the  dissolved 
abbey  of  Knocktopher,  with  sundiy  of  its  possessions. 

Sir  Patrick  White  of  Kilflallaghan  was  a  Baron  of  the 
Exchequer  from  1535  to  1559.  In  1572  Nicholas  *Whyte' 
of  Whyte's  Hall,  was  appointed  Master  of  the  Bolls  there ; 
soon  after  which  a  *  Colonel  John  White/  who  was  bom  in 
Waterford  in  1568,  settled  at  Tirlemont  in  the  Netherlands, 
and  became  founder  of  a  branch  of  the  &mily  traceable  in  the 
foreign  armies,*  and  believed  to  be  only  recently  extinct. 
Another  emigrant,  Dominick  White,  passed  off  in  the  time 
of  James  the  First,  from  Limerick  to  Bourdeaux,  where  he 
settled.  He  was  seised  of  considerable  house  property  in  that 
city,  which  he  had  theretofore  conyeyed  to  the  use  of  his  son 
Bichard,  with  remainders  in  tail  male  to  other  sons  of  his, 
viz.,  Stephen,  Edward,  and  Bartholomew. 

In  1605  John  White  of  Dufferin,  in  Down,  conveyed  to 
Trustees  all  his  estates  therein,  as  well  as  others  in  Eil- 
mainham,  Chapel-izod,  and  elsewhere  in  Ireland,  to  hold  to 
&mily  uses ;  and  in  the  same  year,  this  John  described  as  son 
and  heir  of  Walter  White  late  of  Balregan  in  Louth,  sued 
out  a  license  of  seisin;  as  did  Nicholas,  son  and  heir  of 
Andrew  White  and  heir  of  Nicholas  White,  late  of  Leixlip. 
In  1612  James  White  passed  patent  for  the  Castle  of  Crow* 
bally  with  sundry  lands  in  Cork;  while  in  three  years  after 
William  White  had  livery,  as  son  and  heir  of  Walter  White 
of  Angwellestown  in  Meath,  deceased.  In  1616  Nicholas 
White,  before  mentioned  at  1605,  had  a  grant  of  a  daily 
pension  of  48.  for  his  life,  inasmuch  as  his  grand&ther  and 
father  had  been  slain  in  the  service  of  the  Crown.    In  1637 

*  (yCaOagJum's  Brigades,  vol  1,  p.  342. 
YOL.  II.  2  I 


482  KIKG  JAMES'S   IRISH   ABMY  LIST. 

Alison,  heiress  of  Patrick  White  of  Clonmel,  had  livery  of 
her  estates ;   as  had  Sir  Nicholas  White  of  the  manor  of 
Leixlip  in  the  same  year,  which  had  been  theretofore  granted 
to  his  ancestor  bj  patent,  together  with  St.  Catherine's,  near 
the  Salmon  Leap,  parcels  of  the  estates  of  dissolved  religious 
houses  in  Kildare  and  Waterford;  he  had  also  a  house  and 
garden  in  High-street,  between  those  occupied  by  Alderman 
John  Qt>odinge  and  John  'Ennas/  tailor,  with  various  rec- 
tories, tithes,  and  lands  in  the  counties  of  Dublin,  Wicklow, 
and  Kildare.    In  the  same  year  Edward  White  of  Bab^th- 
nesly.  County  of  Wexford,  as  son  and  heir  of  Richard  White, 
had  license  of  livery,  as  had  likewise.the  Whites  of  Clongell. 
The  Attainders  of  1642  name  James  White  of  Carbury, 
County  of  Kildare,  clerk ;  with  Patrick  of  Boddenstown,  and 
James  and  Nicholas  of  Clongell,  in  the  County  of  Meath. 
In  the  Supreme  Council  of  1646  sat  John  Whitd  of  Clonmel; 
while  the  Act  of  Settlement  named  a  John  White,  described 
as  of  Loyhall,  County  of  Limerick,  with  express  acknowledg- 
ment of  Boyal  gratitude  for  his  services  beyond  the  sea.     In 
1677,  &c.,  Alexander  White  passed  patent  for  715  acres  in 
Cavan,  as  did  Sir  Stq)hen  White  for  2,159  in  limeridL; 
Thomas  White  for  269  in  Westmeath,  and  subsequently  for 
215  in  Galway ;  William  White,  described  as  'of  Lyme-Begis, 
merchant,'  for  320  in  Limerick;   Henry  White  for  734  in 
Clare  and  894  in  Mayo ;  Nicholas  White  for  1,006  in  Oalway ; 
and  Stephen,  nephew  and  heir  to  Pierce  White,  for  485  in 
Clare. 

Besides  the  above  Captain  John,  this  name  appears  com- 
missioned in  seven  other  Regiments  of  the  List. 

In  the  Parliament  of  Dublin,  Roland  White  was  one  of 
the  Representatives  of  Newry,  Alderman  Nicholas  White  of 
the  Borough  of  Clonmel,  Nicholas  White  (of  New  Ross, 


EABL  OF  westmbath's  ikfantbt.      488 

merchant,)  of  that  of  Clooghmine,  and  Charles  White  (who 
was  clerk  of  the  pipe)  of  the  Borough  of  Naaa.  This  last 
individual  was  of  the  Leixlip  j&milj,  afterwards  a  Privy 
CounciUor;    he   raised   an    Independent   Troop   for    King 

Jameses  service: one  of  the  name  was   an   Ensign  in 

Charles  0*Bryan's  Infantry.  The  Member  for  Newry, 
Roland  White,  had  a  saving  of  the  benefit  of  the  Articles 
of  Limerick,  on  the  same  groimds,  and  subject  to  the  same 
conditions  as  in  the  case  of  Colonel  Simon  Luttrel.  On  the 
Attainders  of  1691  the  above  Captain  John  is  described  as 
of  Bellymore  in  the  County  of  Westmeath,  with  three  others 
of  the  same  locality,  Ignatius  White  of  Dublin,  commonly 
called  Marquess  of  Abbeville,  who  had  been  King  James's 
envoy  in  Holland,  and  seventeen  more  of  the  name,  in 
Wexford,  Kildare,  Tipperary,  Down,  Cork,  Clare,  Water- 
ford,  and  Limerick,  were  also  then  attainted. 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  DOYLE. 

The  O'Doyles  were  an  influential  Sept  of  Carlow  and 
Wexford.  On  the  Attainders  of  1642  appear  three  of  the 
name  in  Wicklow,  John,  Maolmurry,  and  James ;  and  one  in 
Meath,  James,  who  was  of  the  Supreme  Council  at  Kilkenny. 
On  the  present  Army  list,  besides  Captain  John,  two  other 
Doyles  were  commissioned,  Andrew  in  the  Boyal  Infantry, 
and  Edmund  in  O'Qura's.  Those  attainted  in  1691  were 
the  above  officer,  described  as  of  Arldow,  County  of  Wicklow, 
three  others  in  Wexford,  and  one  in  Meath,  ELildare,  and 
Dublin,  severally.  One  of  these  appears  to  have  been  a 
Quartermaster  in  Clifford's  Dragoons,  and  another  a  Lieu- 
tenant in  Colonel  John  Hamilton's  Infantry.    A  branch  of 


484  KING  JAME8*8  IRISH  ABHT  LIST. 

the  fiunily  was  subsequently  settled  in  the  County  Carlow, 
of  which  was  Francis  Hastings  Doyle,  who  was  created  a 
Baronet  in  1828,  and  was  &ther  of  Sir  F.  N.  Charles 
Doyle,  the  present  Baronet,  Beceiver-General  of  the  Customs. 


CAPTAIN  THOMAS  NEVILLE. 

He  is  described,  in  his  attainder,  as  Thomas  Neville  of 
Bathmore,  in  the  County  of  Kildare.  In  1386  King 
Bichard  committed  to  Simon  Neyille  the  custody  of  the 
manor  and  rents  of  Boscarlan  in  Wexford,  at  which  time 
he  was  appointed  a  guardian  of  the  peace  in  that  County, 
and  in  three  years  after  he  was  its  Sheriff.  Balph  Neville 
was  a  Justice  in  eyre  in  Cork  in  1395.  In  1402  Walter 
Nevyle  had  a  grant  of  an  annuity  of  £20  for  his  public 
services.  In  the  following  year  Thomas  Nevyll  was  by  the 
King  promoted  to  the  Deanery  of  Ferns.  In  1408  estates, 
of  which  David  '  Candelan'  had  been  theretofore  seised  in 
Kilkenny,  were  committed  to  the  custody  of  Geoffrey  Neville. 
John  Neville  was  one  of  the  influential  proprietors  of  Wex- 
ford then  appointed  to  levy  a  State  subsidy  over  that  County; 
and  in  the  same  year  TVlUiam  Neville,  merchant,  had  license 
to  export  com  to  Bourdeaux,  for  victualling  the  household  of 
the  Lord  Lieutenant  and  other  liege  subjects  theie.  In  1480 
Doctor  Laurence  Neville,  of  the  Wexford  line,  was  promoted 
to  the  see  of  Ferns.  A  Lieutenant  Neville  was  distingmshed 
in  the  Desmond  war,  on  the  Queen's  side,  and  in  1610 
Nicholas  Neville  died  seised  of  Ambrosetown  and  other 
premises  in  Wexford,  leaving  two  daughters,  Ellen  and 
Katherine,  his  co-heiresses.    In  1621  Widter  <  Novell  *  died 


EARL  OF  WESTUEATH^S  IKFANTBT.  485 

seised  of  other  lands  in  the  same  county ;  Walter  his  son  and 
heir  was  bom  after  his  fitther's  death.  In  1705  Queen  Anne 
directed  payment  of  £200  to  Captain  Francis  Neville,  for  a 
survey  made  by  him  of  a  projected  canal  from  Lough  Neagh 
to  Newry,  of  which  the  estimated  cost  being  £20,000,  the 
Irish  House  of  Commons  declined  to  forward  the  object. 
In  1720  John  Neville  was  Sheriff  of  the  County  of  Dublin. 


CAPTAIN  THOMAS  COWDALL. 

This  name,  though  now  rare,  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from 
the  time  of  Edward  the  Second.  Nothing,  however,  is 
known  of  this  officer,  except  that  in  1693  he  sued  out  his 
pardon  firom  attainder,  on  the  groimd  that  he  had  early  sur- 
rendered himself,  and  had  actually  gone  over  to  the  service 
of  King  William.  * 


DELAMERE,  CAPTAIN  A  LA  SUITTE. 

This  very  ancient  fiunily  claims  descent  fix)m  Herbert,  who, 
having  been  an  able  commander  of  the  fleet  of  Robert  the 
Dane,  was  popularly  styled  De-Ia-mer,  and  he  obtained 
the  hand  of  RoUo's  daughter  in  marriage.  His  great-great- 
grandson  and  namesake  was  one  of  the  warriors  selected  by 
William  the  Conqueror  to  be  his  companion  in  arms  in  the 
descent  on  England,  and,  soon  after  its  successful  issue,  he 
obtained  a  grant  of  lands  in  Cheshire.    His  great-grandson, 


♦  Harries  M8S.  in  Dub.  Soc.,  vol  10,  p.  240. 


486  KINO  JAHEgTs  IBISH  ASXY  LIST. 

William  Delameret  accompanied  '  Strongbow*  in  tha  invasion 
of  Ireland;  and  Henry  the  Second,  when  he  came  over 
thither  in  1171,  allocated  to  him  a  large  tract  in  Westem- 
Meath,  where  valour  and  allegiance  were  most  needed, 
situated  as  it  was  on  the  very  verge  of  the  Pale,  and  in  £ront 
of  the  Irishrj  of  Annaly.  This  William,  with  the  politic 
object  of  conciliating  the  natives,  selected  for  his  wife  a 
daughter  of  tiiat  great  House  which  tiieretofore  ruled 
over  Ireland,  Dorothy  O'Melaghlin;  and  he  fixed  his  resi- 
dence at  Donore  on  Lough  Derrivaragh.  As  in  Cheshire,  his 
ancestors  aj^iear  to  have  given  name  to  Delamer-forest, 
William's  own  territory  in  Meath  was  distinguished  as 
*  Delamer*s  oountry,*  nor  was  it  until  1543  that  this  designation 
was,  by  an  act  of  the  Irish  Parliament,  directed  to  be  changed 
to  the  Barony  of  Bossaugh,  now  Corkree  and  Moygoish. 

At  the  close  of  the  thirteenth  century,  John  Delamere,  of 
the  English  stock,  was  summoned  as  a  Baron  to  do  military 
service  against  the  Scots,  before  and  after  which  year  he  had 
many  summonses  to  Parliament.  He  served  under  Edward 
the  First  in  the  expedition  into  Gascony,  and  was  present  at 
the  memorable  siege  of  Carlaverock,  near  Dumfiies,  in  1300. 
About  the  same  time  Richard  Delamere,  of  Donore,  married 
Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Wogan  of  Batiicoffy,  in  Kildare, 
heretofore  particularly  mentioned.  His  son  William  founded 
the  once  splendid  Franciscan  Friary  at  Multi&mham  beside 
Donore,  in  1306,  as  commemorated  on  an  ancient  monument 
still  existing  in  its  cemetery.  The  family  armorials  engraved 
upon  this  stone  cover  nearly  half  its  sur&oe,  and  there 
thenceforth  were  these  Delameres  interred. 

In  1350  died  a  very  remaikable  member  of  the  English 
Delameres,  Thomas  Delamere,  Abbot  of  the  noble  Beligious 
House  at  St.  Alban^s,  to  whom  King  Edwaxd  the  Third, 


EABL  OF  Wi:8TM£ATH'S  INFANTBT-  48T 

after  his  victory  at  Poictiers,  committed  the  care  rather  than 
the  codtody  of  his  Royal  captiye,  John  of  France.  In  1373 
John  Delamere  of  Multifarnham  was  summoned  to  a  great 
Council  or  Parliament  in  Dublin.  In  1412  Maurice,  son  of 
this  John,  having  proposed  to  erect  a  castle  at  the  end  of  the 
bridge  of  Multifarnham,  the  manor  of  which  he  held,  and 
which,  as  he  shewed,  was  situated  in  front  of  the  marches 
adjoining  the  OTerralls,  Irish  enemies,  received  in  considera- 
tion of  this  service  a  license  to  levy  such  tolls  there,  as 
were  levied  at  Athboy  or  Kells;  said  license  to  enure  for 
thirty  years  thence  ensuing.  Peter  Delamer  of  this  line 
married  Honoria,  daughter  of  John  Nugent  of  Bracklyn, 
ancestor  of  (amongst  other  eminent  descendants)  the  venerable 
Austrian  Field  Marshal,  Lavallin  Nugent.  Walter  Delamer 
in  the  sixth  generation  from  this  Peter,  was  Governor  of  the 
County  of  Longford  in  the  troubled  time  of  Charles  the 
First,  in  whose  cause  he  raised  a  Regiment  of  which  himself 
was  Colonel,  and  of  the  privates  the  majority  were  Delameres. 
At  the  head  of  this  devoted  band  he  fell  in  the  breach  at  the 
storming  of  Drogheda,  where  forty  of  the  name  are  said  to 
have  perished,  and,  in  the  confiscations  that  then  ensued, 
twelve  Delameres,  proprietors  in  their  old  country,  were  left 
landless.  Theobald,  the  only  son  of  the  above  Colonel 
Walter,  an  infant  when  his  fiither  fell,  lived  to  continue  the 
family.  His  eldest  son,  Henry  Delamere,  appears  to  have 
been  the  above  officer,  and  he  married  Margaret  O'Reilly, 
niece  of  the  celebrated  Sir  Phelim  O'Neill.  Of  tiieir  lineal 
descendants  those  now  living  are — 1,  John  of  Killeen  Lodge, 
near  the  old  Friary  of  Multifarnham,  now  representative  of 
this  race;  2,  Patrick  Murray  Delamere  his  brother,  dis- 
tinguished through  upwards  of  twenty  years'  service  in  the 
Spanish  army,  by  orders,  honours,  and  wounds;  he  is  con- 


488  KIKG  JAMES'S  IBI8H  ARUT  LIST. 

nected  by  marriage  with  Marshal  O'Donnel,  and  ranks  as  a 

Major-Oeneral  and  Commandant  of  the  Spanish  cavalry  at 

Porto  Rico ;   while  his  brother,  Peter  Herbert  Dekmere,  a 

Lieutenant  of  the  2l8t,  the  Royal  North  British  Fusiliers, 

has  served  with  his  Regiment  during  the  late  war  in  the  9 

Crimea  and  Mediterranean,  and  has  won  his  medal  and  clasp 

at  the  siege  and  fidl  of  Sebastopol. 


I 


BOISSELBAU'S  INFANTBT. 


489 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 


MAJOR  GENEBAL  BOISSELEAU'S. 


Cqptain$. 

The  GoloneL 

■        BeftnpPBy 
Lieatenant-Colonel. 

Mon^.  Dnrett. 

GalUilian  UK}aTty. 

David  Odt. 

Oairett  Conrecy. 

Donogh  Mac  Sweeny. 

HemyTnmt 

Sobeit  Domey. 

Charles  MK^arty. 

Donogh  O'Brien. 

Ghaiies  M^Carfy. 

Comelhu  Curtain. 

Patrick  Hide. 

Patrick  Arthur. 

Edmund  Barry 

Denis  Falvey. 

Leaiy. 

Peter  M'Sweeny. 

Miles  de  Coiosy. 

David  Trant 

Maorice  Fitz-€(erald. 

Philip  Cogan. 

John  Mshony. 

David  Barry. 

Ednrand  Barrett 

Ganett  Fitz-Gerald. 

Daniei  CHeilihey. 

Gaiiett  Cotny. 

Butler. 

Florence  MK^arty. 

W.Fitzgerald. 


^— Barry. 
Bfahony. 

DeBoncanda. 
Florence  M'Carty. 
Edmund  Colt 
Garrett  Conraey. 
Edmnnd  Bfac  Sweeny. 
Bedmond  Connor. 
WilUam  Harrold. 
Charles  MK}arty. 
John  Condon. 
Callahan  MK}arty. 
Richard  Bnlman. 
James  Roche. 
Piers  Stapleton. 
James  Baggott 
Dermott  Falvey. 

Galway. 

Donogh  M*Sweeny. 
Thomas  Bntler. 
James  Trant 
Philip  Snpple. 
John  Barry. 
Martin  Mahony. 
David  Barry. 
Charles  M*Carty. 
James  Qninn. 
Daniel  0*H€rilhey. 

Batler. 

—  0*Gkirman. 
M'Mahon. 


Entigm, 

St  FhaUe. 
Goold. 

Dela  Martiniere. 
Teigoe  Qlomey. 
Richard  Colt 
Denis  ^Keefe.* 
Symon  Mac  Sweeny. 
John  Trant 
Thomas  Haly. 
Bartholomew  Lea^. 
Gibbon  Fitz-Gibbon. 
David  Roche. 
Constans  *Keefe.' 
Daniel  *0*Keefe.* 
PhiUp  *  Wolfe.' 
David  Bany. 
Hugh  Falvy. 
■  Sweeny. 
.  Edmmid  M*Sweeny 
ChariesCarty. 
Michael  Trant 
Edmnnd  Fitz-Gerald. 
Donogh  M^Carty. 
James  Mahony. 
John  Daly. 
Teigae  M'Carty. 
Kat  White. 
Garrett  Barry. 

*Tridle.' 

— .«  O'Donoghne. 
*— Stack. 


Qffic&n  a  ia  9uiUB. 
Nine  French  Captdns :  three  Irish.    Three  French  Lieutenants :  two  Irish. 


490  KING  JAME8*8  IBI8H  ARMT  LIST. 


MAJOR  GENERAL  BOISSELEAU. 

"BoiSSBLEAU,"  writes  O'Conor*  '*  a  Captain  of  the  French 
Groardfl,  who  had  some  knowledge,  wluch  none  of  the  Irish 
had,  of  the  defence  of  fortified  towns,  was  sent  to  Ireland 
with  the  rank  of '  Marshal  de  Camp,*  or  Major-General." 

When  King  James,  soon  after  his  landing,  proceeded  to 
Cork  on  his  way  to  Dublin,  Bmsselean  was  bj  him  deputed 
to  command  in  the  former  city,  in  lieu  of  Lord  Mount-Cashel, 
and  the  names  on  this  Colonel's  Regiment  show  that  it  was 
prindpallj  raised  thereabout,  and  Boisseleau  accordingly  ocnn- 
manded  there  until,  on  the  landing  of  the  Duke  of  Schonberg 
in  the  North,  Ulster  appeared  the  incipient  seat  of  war; 
whereupon,  when  King  James,  in  November  1689,  was 
necessitated  to  break  up  his  camp  at  Ardee,  by  reason  of  the 
want  of  forage,  and  to  retire  to  I)rogheda,  he  left  six 
battalions  of  Foot  and  fifty  Horse  there,  under  the  command 
of  this  Major-General,  scattering  little  garrisons  on  both  sides 
of  it  to  secure  the  country  .f  Boisseleau  soon  afterwards 
made  an  attack  on  Newry,  but  was  repulsed.  He  was,  after 
the  defeat  at  the  Boyne,  by  reason  of  his  engineering  skill, 
appointed  Governor  of  Limerick,  before  its  first  siege  by 
King  WiUiam,  the  city  having  then  a  garrison  of  fi>urte»i 
Regiments  of  Infiuitry,  with  three  of  Horse  and  two  of 
Dragoons.  During  that  siege  he,  the  Duke  of  Berwick,  and 
Sarsfield,  are  recorded  as  having  been  most  active  in  pre- 
venting its  STurrender.  ''In  the  midst  of  a  cannonade  of 
eighteen  pieces  of  artillery,  supported  by  a  prodigious  blaze 

•  CfOamr's  MiUt,  Mem.^  p.  1 16.        f  Clara's  James  IL^  v.  2,  p.  383. 


BOIBSSUBAU'S  INFANTBT.  491 

of  musketry,  his  standard  was  planted  at  the  top  of  the 
breach."*  [He  maintained  the  Citj  with  great  gallantry  and 
success,  from  the  9th  to  the  31st  August,  compelling  King 
William  to  nuse  the  siege  after  severe  losses,  especisJly  at  the 
principal  assault  on  the  27th,  where  2,148  of  his  best  troops 
were  killed  or  wounded.  Soon  after  the  retreat  of  the 
benegers,  Boisseleau  retired  to  his  native  country,  where  he 
was,  in  1693,  appointed  Governor  of  Charleroy  by  liouis  the 
Fourteenth,  in  five  years  aft;er  which  he  died.] 


CAPTAIN  DAVID  COLT. 

Nothing  more  is  known  of  this  officer  or  his  family,  except 
that  he  was  attainted  in  1691,  by  the  description  of  David 
'  Coult'  of  Ballyammon,  County  of  Cork. 


CAPTAINS  DONOUGH  AND  PETER  AND 
LIEUTENANT  PETER  Mc  SWEENY. 

The  Mac  Sweenys  were,  in  their  origin,  a  branch  of  the 
O'NdUfl,  and  settling  in  Donegal,  established  there  three 
great  lines.  They  also  became  dirtinguished  and  influential 
proprietors  in  Munster  in  the  thirteenth  century,  where  they 
ranked  as  sub-feudatory  to  the  Mac  Cartys,  Princes  of 
Desmond.  According  to  Smith's  History  of  Corky  they 
located  themselves  in  the  parish  of  Kilmurry,  where  they 
built  some  castles,  one  especially  at  Clodagh,  near  Macroom. 


*  aCaUaghan'8  Brigades,  y.  1.  p.  374. 


492  KINO  JAMES'S  IBI8H  ABMT   LIST. 

In  1378  died  Turlough  Mac  Sweenj,  '  High  Constable  of 
Connanght;'  and  anodier  Mac  Sweenj  is  also  so  styled,  in  a 
notice  of  the  Foor  Masters  at  1397.  In  1424  says  the  same 
authority,  ''died  Maohnana  Mac  Sweeny,  Constable  of 
Tyroonnel,  the  star  of  defence  and  bravery  of  the  province." 
In  1524  ''  Mac  Sweeny  of  Tir-Boghain  (Barony  of  Bannagh, 
in  Donegal),  i«.,  Niall  More,  son  of  Owen,  died,  after  extreme 
nnction  and  penance,  in  his  own  castle  at  Sathain,  on  the 
14th  of  December.''  These  Annalists,  having  executed  th^ 
great  history  in  the  Abbey  of  Donegal,  and  h&ng  intimately 
connected  with  that  county,  make  frequent  mention  of  the 
Mac  Sweenys  there  located,  and  especially  record  at  1524  a 
treacherous  invasion  on  their  territory  by  the  Mac  Donnells 
and  their  Scots. 

In  1560  occurs  their  first  notice  of  this  Sept  in  Munster, 
when  the  sons  of  the  Earl  of  Desmond  having  marched  into 
Carberry  (Co.  of  Cork)  on  a  foray,  Mac  Carty  ^Riavach' 
attacked  the  plunderers,  bdng  aided  by  "  Turlogh  the  son  of 
Maolmurry,  son  of  Donogh,  son  of  Turlogh  Mac  Sweeny,  of 
the  tribe  of  Donogh  More,  from  Tuaith  Tiraidhe  (Tory 
Island,  off  Donegal),  with  a  brave  select  party  of  gallow- 
glasses.'*  In  1587,  when  Sir  John  Perrot^s  memorable 
stratagem  was  effectuated  in  the  Bay  of  Lough  Swilly,  by 
the  enticing  of  Hugh  Boe  O^DonneU  on  shipboard,  and  his 
capture,  '*  Mao  Sweeny  '  of  tiie  districts,'  in  common  with  aU 
others  of  that  country,  came  to  the  shore,  and  they  proffered 
hostages  and  sureties  in  lieu  of  him;  but  it  was  of  no  avail  to 
hun,  for  there  was  not  a  hostage  in  the  Province  of  Ulster 
they  would  take  in  his  stead."  In  the  following  year  the 
Lord  Justice,  joined  by  Sir  Bichard  Bingham  and  Sir 
Thomas  Norris,  and  most  of  the  men  of  Ireland,  except  those 
of  the  Province  of  Ulster,  marched  with  a  great  army  against 


BOISSELEAU'S  IKFANTBY.  493 

Mac  Sweeaj  'of  the  districts'  and  O'Boiirke;  who  had  made 
fnendsy p  and  alliance  with  the  men  of  the  Spanish  fleet  (the 
Armada;)  and  these  forces,  (the  Lord  Deputy's,)  spoiled 
everything  they  found  before  them,  not  belon^ng  to  the 
Queen's  people,  firom  the  Biver  Suck  to  Burdrowis  (in 
Leitrim),  and  thence  to  the  Biver  Finn  (in  Donegal) ;  how* 
ever,  they  neither  took  nor  endangered  Mac  Sweeny  or 
O'Bourke  on  that  occasion. 

Of  the  Munster  line  of  this  sept,  six  passed  over  to  Spain, 
after  the  result  of  the  war  in  that  province,  in  the  time  of 
Queen  Elizabeth.  In  1606,  nevertheless,  it  appears  that 
Hugh  '  Mac  Swyne,'  son  and  heir  of  Colla  Mac  Swyne  of 
Xilkee  in  Clare,  had  livery  of  certain  estates  there;  while 
Walter,  son  of  Loughlin  Mac  Sweeny,  had  a  grant  of  nearly 
1,000  acres  in  Donegal,  as  had  Donald  Mac  Sweeny  Fanett 
in  the  same  coimty.  In  1612  King  James  directed  Sir 
Arthur  Chichester,  on  behalf  of  Owen  Mac  Sweeny,  to 
accept  a  surrender  of  his  lands  and  to  grant  to  him  a  patent 
for  their  restoration  on  a  new  title.  A  short  time  previous  to 
this,  when  Clare  was  being  planted  into  a  county,  Owen 
Mac  Sweeny  was  found  seised  of  three  castles  therein,  viz., 
at  Dunymulahill,  Carrigentruher,  and  Beatneforvamayne. 
''  This  Owen,"  says  Smith,*  '^  was  particularly  recommended 
by  the  Lord  Danvers,  President  of  Munster,  and  by  Sir 
Bichard  Morison,  Vice-president,  for  having  performed  many 
faithful  services  in  that  King's  reign  and  in  Queen  Eliza- 
beth's." 

In  1618  died  Connell  Mac  Swyne,  seised  of  2,000  acres  in 
Donegal,  his  son  and  heir  being  Donell  garow  Mac  Swine, 
then  aged  52,  and  married.    In  two  years  after  Owen  madder 

♦  fl&toiy  ^  Corik,  V.  1,  p.  186.  n. 


494  KING  JAMES'S  IBISH  ABUT  LIST. 

Mac  Swine  died  seised  also  of  estates  in  Donegal,  Turlogh 
oge  his  son  and  heir  being  then  aged  twentj-twaand  married. 
By  an  inquisition  of  1625  it  was  found,  that  of  this  devoted 
family  Knogher  Mac  Swyne  had  then  recently  died  in  Spain, 
without  executors  or  administrators,  and  that  Neale  baUagh 
Mac  Swyne  was  at  that  time  living  beyond  sea,  in  the  King 
of  Spain's  army  with  O'Neill's  sons.  In  1636  died  the 
aforesaid  Donell  garovo  Mac  Swine,  seised  in  fee  of  Renduff- 
Carrick  in  Denial,  Donell  the  younger,  his  son  and  heir, 
being  then  married. 

Notwithstanding  the  President's  aforesaid  recommendation 
of  the  above  Owen  Mac  Sweeny,  his  son  Owen  Mac  Sweeny 
oge^  was  attainted  in  1642,  and  thus  forfeited  the  property, 
which  was  so  theretofore  granted  to  his  lather.  His  outlawry 
describes  him  as  of  Mashaneglass  in  Cork ;  in  which  county 
"^ere  at  the  same  time  (1643)  outlawed  Maolmuny  Mac 
Sweeny  of  Artaghrugh,  and  Morrough  Mac  Sweeny  of 
Knockumoddry;  the  former  of  whom  was  further,  by  Crom- 
well's denouncing  ordinance  of  1652,  excepted  from  pardon 
for  life  and  estate. 

Besides  the  three  Mac  Sweenys  in  this  Kegiment,  the  name 
was  in  comnussion  in  eight  others,  viz.,  FitsJames's,  Kilmal* 
lock's,  Owen  Mac  Carty's,  Mountcashel's,  Henry  IKllon's, 
John  Barrett's,  Roger  Mao  Elligott's,  and  the  Earl  of 
Antrim's  In&ntry.  In  September,  1691,  ^  Bobert  King 
(ancestor  of  Viscount  Lorton)  wrote  to  Colonel  Lloyd,  then 
Governor  of  Athlone,  in  relation  to  the  state  of  afl&irs  about 
Boyle;  '*  There  is  one  Mac  Sweeny  has  a  party  of  about  one 
hundred  men  well  armed  in  the  woods  of  Moygaia,  four  miles 
fix>m  this  ;  and,  though  the  numbers  are  so  great  to  the 
Sheriff's  twenty  men  (aU  that  he  has  here),  and  our  as  yet 
unsettled  militia,  they  have  not  ventured  on  us,  nor  durst, 


boisseleau'b  ikfaktby.  495 

could  you  favour  us  with  a  company  of  your  men.'**  The 
Attainders  of  1691  include  three  of  the  name  in  the  County 
of  Cork,  five  in  Donegal,  and  one  in  Mayo. 

At  the  battle  of  Ypres,  says  a  Gazette  of  the  year  1745, 
the  Irish  Troops  in  the  French  service  recovered  the  field 
when  the  French  Guards  gave  way,  but  they  suffered  much ; 
and  in  Bulkeley's  Begiment,  which  was  one  of  those  gallant 
bands.  Captain  Morgan  Mac  Sweeny  was  severely  wounded ; 
as  was  Captain  Boger  Sweeny,  of  the  same  Regiment, 
mortally,  at  Lauffield,  in  two  years  after. 


CAPTAIN  ROBERT  DORNEY. 

An  Owen  0*Domey,  described  as  of  CloneduUane,  County 
of  Cork,  was  attainted.  Nothing  has  been  ascertained  of 
this  officer  or  of  his  fiunily,  but  firom  his  associates  in  this 
Regiment  he  would  seem  to  be  of  the  same  county. 


CAPTAIN  CORNELIUS  CURTAIN. 

He  was  attainted  in  1696,  by  the  description  of  Cornelius 
*  Curtan'  of  Mellyforttown,  County  Cork,  Gent.,  and  the 
name  is  still  known  in  that  county. 


CAPTAIN  PATRICK  HIDE. 

SiB  ABTHtTR  'Htde,'  who  was  made  a  Knight  Baronet 
by  Queen  Elizabeth,  having  raised  a  Regiment  in  England 

*  UAUorCs  Amab  of  Boyle,  v.  1,  p.  275. 


496  KING  James's  ibish  abmt  list. 

at  the  time  of  the  Inyasion  by  the  invindble  Armada,  waa 
one  of  the  Mimster  undertakers  endowed  with  6,000  acres 
of  the  Desmond  forfeitures  in  Cork.  This  Captain,  it  would 
seem,  was  his  relative.  Patrick's  name  does  not  appear  on 
the  Attainders  of  1691,  but  only  that  of  Hugo  Hide  '  of 
BallymaoPhillip,  County  of  Cork.'  On  ^e  Boll  of  the 
'  1649'  OfiBcers  is  the  name  of  Captain  William  Hide. 


CAPTAIN  DENNIS  FALVEY. 

The  O'Falveys  were  Chiefs  of  Cork,  and  in  ancient  times 
recorded,  as  the  hereditary  Admirals  t>f  Desmond.  One  of 
the  despairing  emigrants,  who  passed  into  Spain  after  the 
wars  of  Elizabeth's  time,  was  John  '  O'Falleyay.' 


CAPTAIN LEAEY. 

The  Sept  of  O'Leary  was  territorially  settled  isi  Muskerry, 
County  of  Cork,  between  Macroom  and  Inchigeela,  where 
are  still  the  ruins  of  several  of  their  Castles.  They  suffered 
much  in  the  Desmond  war,  and,  on  the  defeat  of  Juan  de 
Aquila  at  Kinsale,  Mahon,  son  of  Donoogh  O'Leary,  passed 
over  with  him  out  of  Ireland.  On  the  Attainders  of  1642 
occur  the  names  of  Connor  O'Leary  of  Carrignycorry, 
Auliffe  O'Leary  of  Cunnowley,  with  fourteen  other  O'Learys, 
all  located  in  the  County  of  Cork.  On  those  of  1691 
William  Leary  of  Aghare,  County  Cork,  stands  alone ;  while 
Keadagh  Leary  ranks  in  this  List  a  Lieutenant  in  Sir  John 
FitzCterald's  Begiment  of  Infantry. 


BOISSiiLEAU'S  INFANTBT,  497 


CAPTAIN  PHILIP  COGAN. 

This  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  Invasion,  often 
and  eminently  displayed  in  its  history,  especially  in  con- 
nection with  Cork,  the  whole  of  which  comity  Henry  the 
Second,  on  his  invasion  of  Ireland,  conferred  jointly  upon 
Milo  de  Cogan,  and  Robert  Fitz-Stephen  his  uncle.  The 
former,  in  the  year  before  the  landing  of  Hepry,  was  en- 
gaged, according  to  the  Four  Masters,  in  a  battle  at 
Dublin,  with  Asgal,  son  of  Keginald,  King  of  the  Danes 
there ;  '  many  fell  on  both  sides,  English  and  Danes ;  among 
whom  were  Asgal  himself,  John,  a  Norwegian  from  the 
Orkney  Isles,  and  many  others.'  Milo  was  therefore 
projected  to  be  the  first  Constable  of  Dublin,  after  its 
reduction  from  Ostmen  rulers.  In  1221  Bichard  de  Cogan, 
who  was  possessed  of  lands  in  the  ^  honor'  of  Bray,  was 
summoned  to  attend  a  Great  Coimoil,  as  was  John  de  Cogan 
to  do  military  service  against  the  Scots  in  1244.  In  1294 
John  Cogan  was  required  to  do  military  service  in  Grascony, 
as  he  was  again  in  the  ensuing  year.  He  died  in  1309,  and 
was  buried  in  St.  Saviour's  Friary,  Dublin.  In  1318 
Bamaba,  the  widow  of  another  Milo  de  Cogan,  a  descendant 
of  the  above  Chieftain,  sued  out  license  to  marry,  non  obstante 
the  existing  state  of  the  laws.  By  a  writ  of  the  same  year 
it  was  recited  that  John  Wogan  had  been  the  custodee  of 
the  estates  of  John  de  Cogan  deceased,  during  the  minority 
of  Milo  his  son  and  heir,  and  that  said  Milo  had  also  lately 
died,  whereupon  the  inheritance  accrued  to  his  brother  Peter, 
who  was  likewise  un^er  age,  the  King  th^efore  committed 
the  custody  of  said  estates  to  the  aforesiud  John  Wogan. 

VOIi.  II.  2  K 


498  KING  JAMES'S  IBISH  ABMT  UST. 

Henry  de  Cogan  was  at  this  period  so  influential,  that,  on 
his  recommendation,  many  Irish  natives  were  naturalized, 
as  &r  as  was  then  allowable,  and  several  charters  were 
granted  to  certain  boroughs.  In  1327  John  de  Cogan  was 
Treasurer  of  Xreland,  as  was  William  Cogan  in  1334.  In 
the  following  year  Milo  de  Cogan  had  special  summons  to 
attend  John  D'Arcy,  the  Justiciary,  in  his  expedition  into 
Scotland.  In  1355  five  of  this  name  in  Cork  sued  out 
letters  of  pardon  and  protection  on  payment  of  fines.  In 
1376  Peter  de  Cogan  died  seised  of  extensive  landed  estates 
in  Cork,  including  the  manor  of  Mora,  two-thirds  of  the 
manor  of  Shandon  and  two  water  mills.  Walter  de  Cogan 
was  at  this  time  seised  of  lands  in  Connaught,  and  in  1399 
Bobert  Cogan  was  appointed  Sheriff  of  the  County  of  Cork. 
In  1438  Bobert,  son  of  Qeoffiy  Cogan,  granted  to  Gerald 
Fitz-Gerald,  Lord  of  Dedes,  half  of  that  County,  described 
as  all  his  lands  in  Ireland.  In  1488  James  Cogan,  being 
Prior  of  the  great  monastery  of  Holmpatrick,  took  the  oath 
of  allegiance  to  Sir  Richard  Edgecombe,  as  required  by  the 
then  recent  rising  for  Lambert  Simnel. 

In  March,  1601,  Bichard,  son  of  Philip  Cogan,  was  one 
of  those  who  emigrated  to  Spain  with  Don  Juan  de  Aquila, 
about  which  time  John  de  Courcy,  eighteenth  Lord  of 
Kinsale,  married  Catherine,  daughter  of  William  Cogan, 
from  which  marriage  the  Baronage  has  been  lineally  continued 
to  Baron  John  Constantine,  the  present  Lord  Kinsale. 

A  James  Cogan  was  Lieutenant  in  another  Munster 
Be^onent  of  Infantry,  that  of  Colonel  Nicholas  Browne; 
he  was  attsdnted  in  1691,  being  described  as  of  Eilmore, 
County  of  Cork,  mth  Captain  Philip  styled  of  Carrickbrinna, 
in  that  county. 


BOIBB£LEAX7*S  INFAKTBT.  499 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  MAHONY. 

Thb^  O'Mahonjs,  of  the  Heber  Milesian  lineage,  were 
powerful  chieftains  in  Munster,  sometimes  styled  Princes, 
and  had  extensive  estates  along  the  sea  coast  of  Cork  and 
Kerry.  Opposite  Horse  Island,  off  the  former  county,  was 
their  castle  of  Bosbrin,  boldly  erected  on  a  rock  over  the 
sea;  and  its  proprietor  in  the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth, 
availing  himself  of  the  natural  advai^tage  it  possessed,  led 
a  life  of  such  successful  piracy,  that  Sir  George  Carew,  when 
Lord  President,  was  obliged  to  demolish  it.  Smith  says 
there  was  an  ancient  Irish  Chronicle,  called  from  this  locality 
the  Psalter  of  Bosbrin,  which  contmed  a  genealogical 
account  of  the  O'Mahonys.*  The  same  authority  says  that 
Flan,  who  conquered  a  large  tract  of  country  in  Cork,  was 
the  ancestor  of  Beake,  one  of  the  0*Mahonys  from  whom, 
according  to  the  Munster  annals,  the  territory  of  Kinal- 
Meaky  (£anel-m-beace)  which  was  anciently  part  of  Carbury, 
took  its  name.  The  Kinalmeaky  O'Mahonys  were  considered 
junior  to  those  of  Carbury,  which  latter  were  distinguished 
as  O'Mahony  Fionn*  This  Sept  had  several  Castles  along 
the  sea  coast,  as  at  Bosbrin  aforesaid,  Ardintenant,  Black- 
castle,  Ballydesmond,  Dunbeclan,  Dunmanus,  Bingmahon, 
&c.,  Sec.  In  the  manuscripts  of  the  Lambeth  Library,  is 
a  "  note  of  the  names  of  all  the  plow-lands  belonging  to  the 
'O'Mahone'  Fionn  in  Duagh,  a  part  of  West  Carbury;" 
also  ^*  the  division  of  the  territory  of  Iveagh  (the  peninsula 
of  Mizen  Head),  a  part  also  of  Carbury,  among  the  O'Ma- 

•  SmUfCs  Cbrife,  vd.  1,  p.  284. 


500  KING  JAMES'S  IBISH  ARMT  LIST. 

• 

honys."  This  O'Mahony  Fionn,  says  an  ancient  authority,* 
was  "  Sovereign  Prince  of  Rath-lean,  and  next  lawful  heir 
to  the  Crown  of  Cashel,  when  vacant  for  want  of  a  successor; 
and,  on  coming  into  the  presence  of  the  King  of  Cashel, 
he  was  not  bound  to  make  any  other  homage  than  to  bow  his 
head." 

In  950  died  Donough  O'Mahoiiy,  Abbot  of  Glendaloch 
and  Clonmacnoise.  In  1089  this  Sept  obtained  a  victory 
over  Donough  O'Brien.  In  1135  Connor  O'Brien,  in  the 
alternate  assertion  of  an  old  feud,  defeated  the  O'Mahonys 
in  battle,  slaying  their  chief,  Cian  O'Mahony,  styled  "  King 
of  Rathlean  or  East  Iveach."  In  1178  Donat  O'Brien,  with 
his  Dalcassians,  routed  the  O'Donovans  ai^d  the  O'Connels, 
driving  them  from  Limerick  County  to  beyond  Mangerton  in 
Kerry.  Here  these  two  exiled  families,  being  powerfully 
assisted  by  the  O'Mahonys,  made  new  settlements  for  them- 
selves on  the  ancient  properties  of  the  O'Donoghues,  O'Learys, 
and  O'Driscolls,  to  which  three  families  the  O'Mahonys  were 
always  declared  enemies ;  after  which  the  O'Donoghues 
settled  at  Killamey,  on  the  borders  of  Lough  Lean,  while  a 
branch  of  the  O'Mahonys  settled  in  Corcarduighe,  O'Dris- 
coil's  country,  where  they  became  masters  of  the  district 
called  Fionnsartaigh,  which  comprised  the  parishes  of  Kllmoe, 
Scull,  Eolbolane,  Durris,  Kilmaconogue  and  Cahiragh.  f 

In  1356  Murtough  O'Mahony,  and  Thomas,  son  of  Dermod 
O'Mahony,  were  lodged  in  the  custody  of  the  Mayor,  &c.,  of 
Cork  as  hostages  for  the  peace  of  that  County ;  and  the  death 
of  Dermid,  son  of  this  Thomas,  is  commemorated  by  the 
Masters  at  the  year  1427,  wherein  his  unbounded  liberality 


♦  CGorman^  MSS.^  Roy.  Ir.  Acad.,  p.  54. 
t  O* Donovan' 8  Book  of  Rights^  p.  d9. 


BOISSEI.£AU*S  INFANTRY.  501 

is  especially  recorded ;  while  their  obit  of  Finghin  O'Mahony 
of  Kerry,  in  1496,  says  he  was  the  most  humane  and  hospitable 
man  of  West  Munster,  and  a  learned  scholar  in  the  Latin  and 
English  tongues.  In  1513  died  Conor  Fionn,  son  of  Conor, 
son  of  Dermod  O'Mahony^  of  whom  it  is  said  that  he  obtained 
the  lordship  of  his  country,  in  spite  of  great  opposition  given 
to  him  by  senior  and  junior  competitors,  while  the  Masters 
emphatically  add  that  he  excelled  his  ancestors  in  the  govern- 
ment of  his  territory.  In  1575.  an  Inquisition  was  taken  at 
Cork  concerning  the  estates  of  Donald,  son  of  Conor 
0*Mahony,  in  that  County.  He  appears  to  have  been  the 
O'Mahony,  slain  in  the  Desmond  war,  who  died  seised  of  the 
lordship  of  Kinelmeaky  j  and  is  by  some  set  down  as  the  last  male 
representative  of  that  line.  At  Ferret's  Parliament  of  1585 
this  Sept  was  represented  by  Owen,  son  of  Donell,  son  of 
Donell-na-Screedagh  O'Mahony  (of  the  western  district  of 
Iveragh,  County  of  Kerry),  and  by  Conor,  son  of  Conor 
Fionn  oge^  son  of  Conor  Fionn,  son  of  Conor  O'Mahony.  In 
the  following  year,  on  an  Inquisition  taken  at  Shandon  Castle, 
there  were  attainted,  as  im|>licated  in  the  Desmond  rebellion, 
Daniel,  son  of  Coimor  O'Mahony  of  Bosbrin,  and  Conor 
O'Mahony  of  Castle  Mahony,  near  Bandon,  who  were  there- 
upon adjudged  to  forfeit  all  their  honours,  castles,  manors, 
&c.  In  1600,  when  the  celebrated  Ulster  hero,  Hugh 
O'Neill  overran  southern  Ireland,  and  pitched  his  camp 
between  the  rivers  Dee  and  Bandon,  the  O^Mahonys, 
O'Donovans,  and  O'Donoghues  came  in  to  him,  '  in  submission 
and  obedience.'  Various  Inquisitions  were  held  in  1634,  find- 
ing the  estates  of  the  O'Mahonys  in  Limerick,  as  were  others, 
in  1637  for  their  Cork  territory.  In  1605  Sir  William  Taaffe, 
Knight,  had  a  grant  in  '  Muskrie'  of  the  entire  territory  or 
country  of  Xchonloe,  containing  twenty-eight  small  carucates 


&02  Knro  james'b  ibish  abmt  list. 

of  land  of  every  kind,  each  being  120  acanes,  the  greater  part 
bog  and  unprofitable,  and  theretofore  the  estate  of  (the  above) 
Daniel,  son  of  Connor  O'Mahonj,  attainted.  The  Attaindeia 
of  1643  include  ten  of  this  name  in  the  County  of  Cork. 
About  that  time  flourished  Connor  0*Mahony,  long  residiag 
at  St.  Boch  in  Lisbon ;  he  was  bom  in  the  Barony  of  Mua* 
kerry,  County  of  Cork,  became  a  ^Jesuit,  and  published  some 
works  under  a  fictitious  name,  espectaUy  the  Disputotio 
Apologetica^  &Cm  in  1645,  a  work  which  was  thought  so  ultra 
by  the  Supreme  Council  of  Ealkenny,  that  they  ordered  it  to 
the  flames.*  Emir  O'Mahony,  the  Catholic  Bishop  of  Down 
and  Connor,  was  one  of  that  Council  who  signed  the  recom- 
mendation of  the  celebrated  Luke  Wadding  to  the  Pope, 
wherdn  he  strongly  represented  to  his  Holiness  the  oppres- 
sions which  were  endured  by  the  Catholics  of  Lrdand.  f 

One  of  the  Captains  in  the  King^s  Infantry  was  a  Mahony , 
and  another  of  the  name  was  Lieutenant  in  Colonel  Owen 
Macartie's;  while  Dermot  O'Mahony  of  Bosbrin  became  a 
Colonel  in  this  campaign,  and  was  killed  at  Aughrim;  he  was 
attainted  in  1691,  with  two  other  Mahonys  of  Cork,  one  of 
whom  was  an  Ensign  in  Lord  Kenmare's  Lifantry.  Daniel, 
brother  of  the  Colonel  having  also  served  in  beland,  and 
become  a  Captain,  went,  after  the  treaty  of  Limerick,  with 
national  forces  to  the  Continent,  where  he  attained  the  rank 
of  Major,  and,  in  respect  to  the  remarkable  gallantry  of  him- 
self and  his  countrymen  at  Cremona,  in  February,  1702, 
(which  saved  that  place  after  its  surprisal  by  Prince  Eugene), 
he  was  selected  to  bring  the  news  of  that  glorious  achieve- 
ment to  Louis  the  XIV.,  who  thereupon  raised  him  to  the 


*  Wara's  Writers^  pp.  121-2.    Hardma/Cs  Chhoay^  p.  123. 
ti>«  Bwgo's  Eib.  Dom.^  pp.  87S-7. 


i^^B«IF"*i^«W 


BOIddBLEAU'S  INFANTKT.  503 

rank  of  Colonel,  besides  otherwise  rewarding  him  liberally. 
Subsequently,  recommended  by  Louis  to  his  grandson,  Philip 
the  v.,  King  of  Spain,  this  brave  Irishman  was  appointed 
to  command  a  Begiment  of  Dragoons  there,  and  for  very 
distinguished  conduct  throughout  the  war  of  the  succession, 
especially  at  the  battles  of  Almanza,  Saragossa,  and  Villa- 
Viciosa,  he  was  created  a  Lieutenant-General  and  Coimt  of 
Castile.  He  died  in  1714,  leaving  two  sons  General  Officers, 
one  in  the  service  of  Naples,  and  the  other  in  that  of  Spain. 
To  the  latter  refers  an  article  very  creditable  to  Ireland  in 
the  GenUemarCs  Magazine  for  1766.  '*  His  Excellency  Count 
Mahony,  Ambassador  from  Spain  to  the  Court  of  Vienna, 
gave  a  grand  entertainment  in  honour  of  Patrick^s  Day; 
where  were  present  Count  Lacy,  President  of  the  Coundl  of 
War,  the  Generals  O'Donnell,  Maguire,  O'Kelly,  Browne, 
Plunket,  Mac  Ellicot,  four  Chie&  of  the  Grand  Cross,  two 
Governors,  several  Ejiights  military,  six  Staff  Officers,  four 
Privy  Councillors,  with  the  principal  officers  of  State,  who, 
to  show  their  respect  for  the  Irish  nation,  wore  crosses  in 
honour  of  the  day,  as  did  the  whole  Court." 

Neither  of  these  two  sons  of  Coimt  Daniel  O^Mahony, 
left  male  issue,  but  the  name  has  been  projected  with  high 
credit  in  the  achievements  of  the  French  army  to  the  present 
day. 

At  the  Court  of  Claims  held  at  Chichester  Heuse  in  1700, 
Kyan  Mahony  claimed  an  estate  for  lives  in  DallyniUane, 
County  Kerry;  as  did  Dermot  Mahony  the  benefit  of  a  lease 
in  Lisdivigeen  in  same  county  :  Teigue  Mahony  a  similar 
interest  in  Dromadisart;  John  Mahony  a  remainder  for  years 
in  the  half  plow-land  of  East  Ealmeedy,  forfeited  by  the  Earl 
of  Clancarthy ;  Cornelius  Mahony  a  lease  of  a  thatched  house 
in  the  suburbs  of  Cork  held  under  Thomas  Coppinger  the  late 


504  KING  James's  hush  abict  list. 

proprietor;  and  in  particnkr,  Darby  Mahony  daimed  an 
estate  in  fee,  in  tlie  two  half  plow-lands  <^  Famanes,  County 
Cork,  by  descent,  as  grandson  and  heir  of  Deimod,  son  of 
Togoe  Mahony,  and  <^  which  the  Eail  of  Clancarthy  was 
the  late  proprietor. 


CAPTAIN  DANIEL  O'HEKLlHY. 

The  Attainders  of  1643  describe  eleven  of  the  O'Herlihys  in 
the  County  of  Cork ;  those  of  1691  hl^ve  but  one,  John 
Herlihy  of  Tuogage,  in  that  county.  The  sept  is  considered 
by  0*Brien  identical  with  that  of  0*Hurley,  ^diich  is  written 
of  asUet  vol.  1,  p.  321,  &c. 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  CONDON. 

The  Condons  were  deemed  so  powerAil  a  Sept  of  old,  that 
their  territory  was  adopted  as  the  name  of  a  Barony  in  the 
County  of  Cork.  On  the  first  entrance  of  the  Lord  President 
of  Munster,  in  1600,  into  that  county,  Mac  Hugh  Condon 
was  one  of  the  natiye  chiefs  who  first  made  submission  to 
him.*  In  1606  John  King  of  Dublin,  had  a  grant  from  the 
Crown  of  certain  estates  in  the  County  of  Waterford,  there« 
tofore  the  property  of  Patrick  Condon ;  while,  in  seven  years 
after,  David  Condon  of  Ballydorrawne,  County  of  Cork,  "  in 
performance  of  an  indented  order  taken  and  conceived  between 
him  and  Arthur  Hide  of  Carriginedy,  concerning  the  title, 

*  PcuxUa  Stbemia^  p.  61. 


BOISSELEAU'S   INFANTRY.  505 

right,  and  possession  of  all  the  estates  sometime  belonging  to 
Patrick  Condon,  said  David's  father,"  granted,  assigned,  and 
confirmed  to  Hide  various  manors  and  lands  in  said  county, 
to  hold  of  the  King  as  fully  as  same  has  been  granted  to 

David  by  letters  patent. -The  Attainders  of  1642  present 

the  names  of  ten  Condons  in  the  County  of  Cork,  while  on 
those  of  1691  are  the  above  Lieutenant  John,  styled  of 
Carricknavoura  and  Dysart,  and  five  others  in  the  same 
county.  At  the  Court  of  Claims  in  1700,  Julian  Condon 
preferred  her. petition  for  her  jointure  in  his  Cork  estate;  but 
her  prayer  was  dismist^ 


LIEUTENANT  RICHARD  BULMAN. 

NoxaiitG  had  been  ascertained  of  him  or  his  family  lEit  the 
period. 


ENSIGN  TEIGUE  GLORNEY. 

The  O'Glomeys  or  O^Glorans  were  a  Sept  of  the  Coimty  of 
Kilkenny. 


ENSIGN  THOMAS  *HALY.* 

The  '  O'Halys'  are  located  by  O'Brien  in  a  large  tract  of  the 
Barony  of  Muskerry,  County  Cork,  called  from  them  Pobble- 
O'Haly*  The  Four  Masters  record  the  death  in  1309  of 
Dermod  O'Healey, '  the  most  eminent  of  the  landed  gentry  of 


506  KINQ  JjUCES'S  IB18H  ABUT  LIST. 

his  time.  In  1320  four  of  this  Sept,  vis.,  John  and  Nevin 
*  O'Halwy/  with  John  and  Maurice,  sons  of  Hugh  O^HaLwy^ 
obtained  letters  of  pardon  and  protection.  In  1328  died 
Duvesa,  daughter  of  O'Hely,  and  wife  of  Donal,  son  of 
Teigue  O'Connor.  In  1389  the  Septs  of  O'Conor  and 
O'Ruarc  invaded  Muinter-Helj,  whose  ^  cavaliy'  they  put  to 
flight,  slaying  Monus  O'Hely  and  others  at  that  place.  In 
1426  is  recorded  the  death  of  O'Hely  More,  that  is  Conor 
Caoch  O'Hely,  and  in  1505  Dermot  O'Haly  of  Limerick  took 
out  a  general  pardon. 

The  officer  at  present  under  consideration,  however,  is  on 
the  authority  of  ancient  family  tradition,  alleged  to  have  been 
of  the  Connaught  sept  of  O'Hanly  of  Slieve-ban,  whose  Chief 
in  the  sixteenth  century  had  three  sons,  Robert,  Hugh,  and 
James.  The  last,  having  killed  a  person  of  rank  in  a  duel, 
retired  from  that  province  and  settled  in  Limerick,  where  he 
took  the  name  of  Haly,  as  concealing,  though  not  utterly 
renouncing  his  patronymic,  and  there  he  married.  His  son 
William  Haly,  acquired  large  possessions  in  that  county,  was 
Sheriff  of  the  City  in  1607  and  its  Mayor  in  1613;  Nicholas, 
a  son  of  his,  for  his  adherence  to  Eang  Charles,  is  ssld  to 
have  been  honoured  with  a  fiat  for  the  dignity  of  Baron ;  in 
evidence  of  which  three  letters  are  referred  to,  one  of  the 
King,  dated  at  Newcastle,  February  20th,  1646,  and  two 
others  of  the  Earl  of  Glamoigan  and  Worcester,  dated  13th 
September,  1646,  and  20th  April,  1647,  (in  the  custody  of 
William  Alcock  Haley  of  Ballyhaly) ;  but,  as  it  is  alleged, 
the  patents  could  not  be  made  out,  the  King  being  at  the 
lime  a  prisoner  with  the  Scottish  army,  and  not  having  the 
Great  Seal  with  him.  This  Nicholas,  styled  of  Towrine,  and 
his  younger  brother  John  of  Limerick,  were  of  the  Supreme 
Council  of  Kilkenny  in  1646.     John  died  vdthout  issue. 


B013SEL£AU*8  IKFAKXBT.  507 

Nicholas  signed  the  Treaty  of  Limerick  in  1651  with  Ireton, 
as  one  of  the  Commissioners  on  the  part  of  the  garrison,  and 
for  the  performance  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  hostages 
retained.  He  was  subsequently  stripped  of  all  his  property 
by  Cromwell ;  but  his  eldest  son,  Robert,  who  married  Lady 
Boche,  the  widow  of  John,  the  tenth  Viscount  Fermoy,  was 
restored  to  his  estates  by  James  the  Second.  The  son  of  that 
marriage,  Canton  Haly,  (alluded  to  ante  vol.  1,  p.  87,)  was 
thus  uterine  brother  to  the  two  last  Viscounts.  He  died  in 
1745  unmarried,  and  by  his  will  bequeathed  his  property  to 
William  Alcock  Haly  of  Ballyhaly,  in  the  County  of  Cork, 
the  services  of  whose  brother  Bichard  at  Fontenoy  are  herein- 
afber  alluded  to.  William  Alcock  married  Mary,  daughter 
of  John,  the  O^Grady  of  KilbaUyowen,  He  held  the  estates 
so  bequeathed  to  him  until  1760,  when  he  sold  them  to  Lor^ 
Tracton;  and  himself  died  in  1780.  His  eldest  son,  Bobert, 
lesumed  the  original  name  of  Hanly,  served,  a  Captam,  in  the 
campaigns  of  Frederic  the  Great,  and  died  in  France  in  1821 
at  the  advanced  age  of  90  years,  leaving  issue.  Sir  John 
Haly,  M.D.,  William's  second  son,  died  at  Cork  in  1798,  also 
leaving  issue.  Simon,  the  third  son,  was  a  merchant,  married 
Anne,  daughter  of  Standish  Barry  of  Lemlara  House,  and 
died  in  France  in  1814,  leaviog  issue*  Standish,  the  fourth 
son,  was  an  officer  in  Colonel  Dillon's  Brigade,  and  died 
in  Lidia,  while  serving  under  the  unfortunate  Comte  Lally 
Tollendal.  Kichard,  the  fifth  son,  was  a  Major  in  Colonel 
Dillon's  Brigade  and  a  Chevalier  of  the  order  of  St.  Louis; 
he  married  into  the  noble  &mily  of  Naveteur  in  Flanders, 
and  had  issue  several  sons  and  daughters,  who  married  into 
some  of  the  highest  families  of  the  French  Noblesse.  He 
died  at  his  chateau  of  Tomaseri^  near  Amboise  in  1816,  aged 
86  years.     Two  of  his  sons,  Kichard  and  William,  were 


598  KiKG  James's  irish  abjct  ust. 

ofllcen  in  the  B^iment  of  Count  Walsh  (Semmt)  up  to  tke 
year  1789,  when  the  Berdntaon  Inroke  out  and  they  fled  to 
Ireland.  Bendea  these  soasj  William  Aloock  Haly  left 
eight  daughters :  Honora,  the  eldest,  married  John  Mahony 
of  Donloe  Castle,  by  whom  she  had  fomr  8<his  and  three 
daughters;  Elizabeth,  the  second,  married  Doctor  Lucas,  a 
celebrated  patriot  of  his  day,  and  had  by  him  a  son  and  a 
daughter;  Mary,  the  third,  married  Cornelius  Cronin,  an 
eminent  solicitor,  but  she  died  without  issue  at  the  age  of  82 ; 
Anastasia,  the  fourth,  married  John  Augustus  Byrne,  one  of 
the  first  merchants  of  Bourdeaux,  by  whom  she  had  one  son 
and  four  daughters ;  Lucy,  the  fifth,  married  Dr.  Stack  of 
Cork,  by  whom  she  had  several  children ;  Theresa,  the  sixth, 
married  William  Coghlan,  a  merchant  of  Coric,  and  died 
without  issue;*  Jane,  the  seventh,  became  the  wife  of  a  Major 
Mc  Donogh,  and  died  without  issue  in  1832,  at  the  great  age  of 
ninety-two ;  Anne,  the  eighth,  married  Mr.  de  Sylvan,  Consul 
of  the  King  of  Portugal  for  Cork,  and  died  also  without  issue 
and  at  an  advanced  age. 

'  Of  the  numerous  male  descendants  of  said  William^  the  only 
member  now  remaining  in  Lreland  is  the  Beverend  Bobert 
Haly,  S.  J. ;  while  other  representl^tives  are  Monsieurs 
Standish  Haly  and  his  son,  of  the  Chateau  Tomaseri^  afore- 
said ;  William  Haly  of  the  English  Bar  and  his  brother  John 
Standbh ;  Colonel  O^Grady  Haly,  who  commanded  the  47th 
Begiment,  so  signalized  in  the  Crimean  war,  and  to  whom  a 
medal  was  presented  by  Her  Majesty ;  Standish  Haly  of  the 
Honduras,  merchant,  Major  George  Haly,  lately  of  the 
East  India  Company's  Service;  John  Haly  of  London, 
merchant,  and  Francis  B.  Haly,  now  of  France,  but  heretoforc 
a  resident  magistrate  in  Ircland.  Very  fall  notices  of  the 
Limerick  Halys  were  drawn  up  by  the  late  respected  Mr. 


BOISSELEAU'S   INFAlrt?BY.  509 

James  Koche  of  Cork,  from  which  much  of  the  foregoing 
lineage  has  been  extracted,  and  they  suggest  that  not  only 
the  above  officer,  Ensign  Thomas,  but  also  Edward  Haly, 
the  Cornet  in  Colonel  Parker's  Horse,  were  of  this  line  of 
ancestry.  ^They,'  writes  this  Mr.  Roche,  alluding  to  the 
Halys  of  Ballyhaly,  'maintsdned  for  centuries  an  eminent 
position  in  the  Counties  of  Cork  and  Limerick;  comprising 
in  their  alliances  the  Baron  of  Kinsale,  Viscount  Guillamore, 
the  Earl  of  Danraven,  the  Marquess  of  Landsdowne,  and  the 
Earl  of  Ilchester,  besides  the  O'Gradys,  the^Barrys  of  Lem- 
lara,  the  Harrisons  of  Castle  Harrison,  the  Alcocks  of  Wilton, 
the  Kennedys  and  Rochforts  of  Grarretstown,  the  Mahonys  of 
Dunloe,  the  Roches,  <&c.,  &c.'  There  were  eleven  Healys 
attainted  in  1691,  described  as  of  Dublin,  Donegal,  and 
Waterford  Counties  respectively,  but  neither  Thomas  nor 
Edward  'Haly,'  appears  upon  the  Roll,  In  1710,  a  Captain 
'  Hely,'  of  Lord  Kilmallock's  Brigade,  was  killed  in  tattle  in 
Spain.  Lieutenant  Richard  'H&lyf'  before  mentioned,  of 
Rothe's  Re^ment,  was  engaged  at  Fontenoy,  wounded  at 
Lauffield  in  1747,  subsequently  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
Major  in  the  Lish  Brigade  of  France,  and  died  at  an  advanced 
age  about  the  year  J  780,  at  C^^mbray, 


ENSIGN  GIBBON  FITZ-GIBBON, 

FiTZ-GiBBON  was  the  surname  peculiarly  applied  to  the 
family  of  the  White  Knight.  In  1611  Donogh,  Earl  of 
Thomond,  had  a  grant  of  the  wardship  of  Margaret-ny 
Maurice  Fitz-Gibbon,  sister  and  next  heir  of  Maurice  oge 
Fitz-Gibbon  of  Ballyboy,  in  Tipperary,  deceased;  and  also 


510  KINO  JAMES'S  IBISH  ABMY  LIST. 

of  the  wardship  of  Edmund  oge  Fitz-Gibbon,  son  and  male 
heir  of  Edmund  Fit2^Gibbon,  late  of  Eilbehinny,  in  Limerick, 
commonly  called  the  White  Sought.  Four  of  this  name 
were  attainted  in  1642,  all  described  as  of  the  County  Meath. 
This  officer  however  was  undoubtedly  of  the  Munster  Sept. 


ENSIGN  PHILIP  ♦  WOLFE; 

« 

The  name  of  Wolfe,  Wolf,  Ulf,  or  Vulf,  is,  by  this  varied 
spelling,  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of  Edward  the 
First.  In  1303  Philip  *  Vulf  waa  one  of  the  Knights,  who 
attended  De  Burgo  in  the  ezpedilions  against  Scotland.  In 
1309  Walter  le  Wolf,  Knight,  had  letter  of  pardon  and 
protection;  and  in  four  years  after,  John,  the  son  of  said 
Philip  Ulf,  having  entered  upon  his  hereditary  estates,  on 
that  father's  death,  without  license,  and  having  also  married 
without  Boyal  permission,  was  obliged  to  obtain  pardon  on 
fines.  In  1345  Nicholas  Ulf  was  one  of  the  guardians  of 
the  peace  for  the  County  for  Limerick,  with  powers  to  assess 
and  array,  as  was  John  Ulf  in  the  same  county.  In  ten 
years  after  Philip  Ulf  was  one  of  the  influential  gentry  of 
Limerick,  who  elected  Thomas  de  Daundon  its  Sheriff;  about 
which  time  it  is  of  record,  that  David  Wolf  died  seised  of 
lands  in  Kilcullen,  County  Ejldare,  to  which  James  his  son 
and  heir  thereupon  succeeded.  Another  David  Wulff  was 
in  1360  an  assessor  of  that  county  to  a  hosting,  while  the 
aforesaid  James  Wolf  was  in  a  similar  commission  over  the 
Barony  of  Bheban  therein.  In  1372  Balph  and  John  Wolf 
were  commissioned,  with  oth^  men  of  Kildare,  to  see  to  the 
restoring  of  all  cattle  and  spdls,  which  had  been  taken  from 


BOISSSLEAXJ'S  IKFANTBY.  511 

O'More  and  his  Sept  since  his  oonformity  to  peace;  while 
John  Wolf  was  himself  obliged  to  renounce  by  indenture  any 
claim  to  certainr  towns  and  lordships  in  Leix.  In  1406  he 
had  license  of  absence  for  one  year,  to  go  over  on  business 
of  state  to  England, 

On  Ortelius's  Map  the  fiunily  are  located  in  the  Barony 
of  Clanwilliam,  County  of  Tipperary,  They  were  also 
territorial  proprietors  in  the  County  of  Kildare,  where 
Thomas  died  in  1582  seised  of  Beart  and  other  estates; 
Edmund  Wolfe  was  at  that  time  seised  of  Kilcolman, 
Oldcourt,  Ardscull,  <&c.,  all  which  premises  were  forfeited 
on  the  attainder  of  Nicholas  Wolfe  in  1641,  at  which  time 
three  others  of  the  name  were  outlawed.  In  1640  Bichard, 
as  son  and  heir  of  Patrick  Wolfe  of  Fedarth  in  Heath,  had 
livery  of  that  estate. 

In  the  Articles  for  the  Capitulation  of  Limerick  in  1651 
Captain  George  Woulfe  and  Francis.  Woulfe,  a  friar,  were 
excepted  from  pardon.  Captain  George  however  escaped 
to  the  North  of  England,  where  he  settled.  His  grandson, 
Genend  Edward  Woulfe,  distinguished  himself  under  Marl- 
borough, and  was  appointed  Colonel  of  the  8th  Begiment 
of  Foot  in  1745.  He  was  father  of  the  hero  of  Quebec, 
who  commenced  bis  military  career  at  the  early  age  of  twenty- 
one,  in  the  often  mentioned  Battle  of  Lauffield  in  1747.  He 
served  at  the  storming  of  Bochefort  in  ten  years  afterwards, 
and  on  his  fall  at  Quebec,  his  body  was  carried  over  and 
buried  at  Greenwich  in  1759,  where  but  a  few  months 
previously  his  &ther  had  been  interred.  It  may  be  here 
added  that  the  death  of  Major  W^alter,  the  undo  of  .the  Hero 
of  Quebec,  is  recorded  as  occurring  in  April,  1771,  at  an 
advanced  age;  the  obituary  stating  that  he  too  had  served 
under  Marlborough,  and  that  his  aforesaid  nephew  had  been 


512  KING  JAM£S*S  IRISH  ABMT  LIST. 

early  under  his  tuition,  whence  he  derived  much  of  that 
knowledge  of  war,  which  was  afterwards  so  crowned  with 
military  glory.  Nor  was  the  name  extinguished  in  Limerick 
by  the  proscriptions  of  Cromwell.  In  King  James's  Charter 
of  1687  to  that  City,  James,  son  of  Bartholomew  Woulfe, 
was  named  one  of  its  burgesses ;  while  at  the  Court  of  Claims, 
held  after  the  national  confiscations  of  1688,  a  John  Woulfe 
petitioned  for  an  interest  in  County  of  !^dare  lands  forfeited 
by  Sarsfield;  on  which  occasion  Anne  Wolfe,  described  as 
widow  of  John  Wolfe,  claimed  an  interest  in  the  estate  of 
Mary  Vernon  at  Clontarf,  as  did  Robert  Woulfe  and  Anstaoe 
his  wife,  one  of  the  daughters  of  David  Nihill  the  Elder,  for 
her  portion  charged  on  Clare  lands,  confiscated  by  said 
Nihill's  attainder.  In  this  latter  county  as  well  as  in  Eildare 
the  name  has  existed  to  modem  times.  The  Bev.  Charles 
Wolfe,  who  died  but  recently,  the  well  known  author  of  the 
lines  on  the  death  of  Sir  John  Moore,  was  born  in  1791,  the 
youngest  son  of  Theobald  Wolfe  of  31ackhall,  County  of 
Kildare ;  while  on  Clare  was  reflected  eminence  of  another 
character,  from  that  ornament  of  the  Irish  Exchequer,  the 
late  Chief  Baron  Stephen  *  Woulfe.' 


■"    "  ■>  ■■■■! 


ENSIGN STACK, 

'*  The  family  of  the  Stacks,''  writes  the  Abbe  McGeoghegan, 
'*  is  of  considerable  antiquity  in  Ireland.  It  derives  its  origin 
from  the  ancient  Grauls.  Some  of  the  family  having  followed 
the  fortunes  of  William  the  Conqueror  into  England,  esta- 
blished themselves  in  Wales,  It  is  asserted,  that  before  the 
time  of  Henry  II.,  McCarthy  More  had  married  a  lady 


BOISSELEAU'S  INFANTRY.  513 

belonging  to  it,  and  that  he  brought  over  with  her  into  Ii^land 
her  four,  brothers,  to  whom  he  offered  estates  in  the  County 
of  Kerry.  However  this  may  be,  it  is  certain  4;hat  the  family 
settled  in  the  country  at  a  very  early  period,  and  formed 
several  branches,  which  possessed  considerable  property  in 
the  neighbourhood  of  Ardfert,  as  far  as  the  river  Smearlagh. 
There  is  stiU  a  district  of  the  country  called  Poble  Stackaighj 
thsit  is,  the  country  of  the  Stacks,  who  were  proprietors  of  it. 
Its  alliances  too,  with  the  best  fiunilies  of  the  province, 
namely,  the  M'Mahons,  the  Fitzgeralds,  the  McCarthys,  the 
Burkes,  the  Fitzmaurices,  and  others,  show  the  consideration 
in  which  it  was  held.  The  Stacks  met  the  fitte  of  so  many 
of  their  fellow-countrymen — ^their  zeal  for  religion,  and 
attachment  to  their  legitimate  monarch,  were  crimes  with 
them  as  with  others.** 


VOL.   II  2  L 


514 


KUrO  JAMBS  8   IU8H   AJUfT   LIST. 


BE6IMENTS  OF  INFANTBY. 


LOKD  BOPHDl'8,  aUoM  OOU>aKL  JOHN  BOOBKS'S. 


TheCdond. 

FnncM  Bovke. 

JohnMndden. 

WHfiam  Connock, 

filfntffWFt  GoUmmL 

John  Bodkin, 

Fnach. 

nnodi. 

nenefa. 

PatridL  Kinrno. 

PfanLyndi. 

Andrew  Khrwin. 

FblMrtf. 

Vlahflfty. 

VldMfty. 

Bkhndnake. 

JohnBlnke. 

Staphen  Lyndk 

Mnitin. 

^— «»]fntin. 

PotarBUkau 

Lftwveoee  Deuie. 

PelerBhkeL 

Wimnm  Bomke. 
ftwicit  Bdur,  2nd. 

limeiBonika 

Walter  Bomke 

BotMrt  XifwAkm 

Stephtt  Lyneh. 

NididMBbke. 

JomijBhhjDfih. 

BkdinidBbdML 

WUIhunLyndL 

Aztlnir  Lyneh. 

Donunkd:  LovdodL. 

llioniu  Brown. 

mcholM  Lyneh. 

ThomMLyndi. 

ICatthew  Bodkin. 

MjOthew  Lynch. 

Lawrence  Wairen. 

HnghKdly. 

John  White, 

Gfenad. 


LORD   BOPHIN*8   INFANTRY.  515 


COLONEL  LORD  BOPHIN. 

This  Peer,  the  seoond  json  of  William,  Earl  of  Clanricarde, 
was  one  of  King  James's  creation  in  Lreland,  on  the  2n(l  of 
April,  1689.  Of  the  force  sent  from  Ulster  in  that  year  to 
aid  Lord  Dundee  in  Scotland,  a  portion  was  drawn  from 
Bophin's  Begiment,  that  which  remained  was,  with  the  others, 
routed  by  the  Enniskilleners  at  Newton-Butler.  Lord  Bophin's 
being  recruited  after  this  discomfiture,  continued  on  the  muster 
roll  of  Eang  James's  Army,  during  the  two  following 
campaigns  of  1690  and  1691,  in  the  latter  of  which,  at 
Aughrim,  the  Colonel  was  taken  prisoner,  brought  off  to  the 
Castle  of  Dublin,  and  thence  sent  to  England.  He  was 
attainted  on  Liquisition,  and,  although  a  bill  was  brought 
into  Parliament  in  1698,  for  restoring  him  to  his  estate  and 
blood,  it  was  thrown  out  on  the  second  reading;  his  children, 
however,  having  preferred  their  petitions  at  the  Court  of 
Claims,  were  allowed  their  respective  remainders,  and  in  the 
first  year  of  the  reign  of  Queen  Anne,  an  Act  was  passed 
whereby  Lord  Bophin  was  acquitted  of  all  treasons  and 
attainders,  and  he  and  his  children  restored  to  their  blood 

and  estate. The  Family  of  '  Bourke'  is  ftdly  noticed  antef 

at  '  the  Earl  of  Clanricarde.* 


LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  WILLIAM  CONNOCK. 

This  officer,  sometimes  spelt  *  Connor,'  was  one  of  the 
military  gentlemen,  who  came  over  from  France  to  Ireland 
early  in  1689  to  join  King  James's  Army,  having  been  a 


516  KING  JAHES'S  IRISH   ARMY   LIST. 

Major  in  the  former  country.  He  sarvived  the  three 
campaigns  of  the  war  of  the  revolation,  returned  to  Fiance 
with  the  exiles  from  Limerick,  and  continued  to  serve  with 
them  on  the  continent.  At  the  surprise  and  expulsion  of  the 
Austrians  from  Cremona,  in  February,  1702,  he  was  attached, 
as  a  re-formed  Ldeutenant-Colonel,  to  the  Irish  Battalion  of 
Bourke;  and,  for  his  gallantry  there,  received  the  rank  of 
Colonel  fix)m  the  French  King.  He  was  killed  in  1704  at 
the  siege  of  Verona,  in  Piedmont,  by  the  explonon  of  a  bomb. 


MAJOR  JOHN  BODKIN. 

This  name  appears  on  the  records  of  Galway  from  the  time 
of  Edward  the  Third,  at  the  dose  of  whose  reign  Clemens 
Laveragh  and  John  ^  Boudekyn,'  clerk,  were  commissioned  to 
hold  an  inquiry  concerning  offences,  with  which  Nicholas  Calf, 
a  burgess  of  Galway,  and  Thomas  Martyn  were  charged.  In 
1533  Dr.  Christopher  '  Bodekine'  was  consecrated  Bishop  of 
Elilmacduagh,  at  Marseilles,  and  was,  in  three  years  after, 
by  the  &vour  of  Henry  the  Eighth,  translated  to  the  Arch- 
Bishopric  of  Tuam,  with  which  he  held  to  his  death,  the  see 
of  Kilmacduagh.*  He  died  in  1572  and  was  buried  at  Gal- 
way. Dominick  Bodkin  of  Galway  was  one  of  the  Confederate 
Catholics  who  assembled  at  Kilkenny  in  1646.  At  the  siege 
of  Galway,  in  1652,  six  townsmen  of  this  name  reftised  to 
sign  the  articles  for  its  surrender,  while  twdve  other  Bodkins 
absented  themselves  to  avoid  so  doing,  f  In  1677  Marcus, 
Bridget,  and  Alexander  Bodkin  had  a  confirmatcoy  grant 

*  Ware^9  Buhop*^  p.  615.        ^Hardiman^$  Oidwag^  Ap.,  p.  33. 


LORD  bophin's  intantby.  517 

of  1,955  acres  in  Galway,  to  the  use  of  the  said  Marcus  and 
Bridget  for  their  Uves,  and  remainder  m  tail  male,  remainder 
to  the  right  heirs  of  said  Marcus ;  the  patent  thus  pursuing 
the  terms  of  a  previous  &milj  settlement  executed  bj  him. 
In  the  same  year  John  Bodkin  and  Mary  his  wife,  had  a 
similar  grant  of  2,900  acres  in  said  county;  while,  in  the 
following  year,  Ambrose  Bodkin  passed  patent  for  1,399 
other  acres  in  Galway. 

Besides  Major  John  and  Matthew  Bodkin,  an  Ensign  in 
this  Regiment,  another  John  Bodkin  was  an  Ensign  in 
Colonel  Donunick  Browne^s  In&ntry,  as  was  Augustine 
Bodkin  in  the  Earl  of  Clanricarde's.  In  July,  1691,  the 
above  Major,  then  a  Lieutenant-Colonel,  was  of  the  hostages 
delivered  to  the  besiegers  of  the  town,  to  be  bound  for  the 
due  observance  of  the  terms  imposed  upon  the  garrison  and 
townspeople  until  surrender*  He  was  a  merchant  of  Gralway, 
was  included  in  the  Attainders  of  that  year,  but  was  after^ 
wards  adjudged  within  the  benefit  of  the  articles  of  1698  and 
1699.  The  outlawries  of  1691  include  Walter  Bodkin,  styled 
of  Ballyfoyle  in  Ealkenny,  and  Dominick  Bodkin  of  Limerick. 


CAPTAIN  PATRICK  KIRWAN. 

The  O'Keryvanes  or  O'Kerwans  were  an  ancient  Irish  Sept 
of  Connaught,  but  the  name  has  been,  as  it  may  be  considered^ 
anglicised  into  Kirwan,  by  which  orthography  it  was  known 
in  the  County  Gralway  from  the  thirteenth  century ,t  whence 
it  extended  to  Mayo,  and  at  a  later  period  to  Waterford  and 
Tipperary.      In  1389  Hugh  *  0'Eerryvane\  chaplain,  had 


*  Hardman^i  Galway^  p.  1 62.     -       t  Idem,  p.  1 6. 


518  KINO  JAMES'S  IBISH  ABMT  LIST. 


liberty  to  use  the  EnglMi  law  nan  obitantej  with  other  more 
substantial  marks  of  Boyal  fiiYOur.  From  1501  to  the  time 
of  the  Beyolation  the  shrievalty  of  Gblway,  then  a  very 
important  town,  was  frequently  filled  by  a  Kirwan,  as  was 
not  less  the  Mayoralty.  In  1582  Stephen  Eiiwan  was 
Bishop  of  Clonfert,  as  was  Francis  Eirwan  of  Eillala  in  1646. 
These,  however,  will  not  be  found  in  Ware^s  Bishops,  The 
only  attainder  affecting  this  name  in  1642  was  that  of  Connor 
*  Eerovane'  of  Enockbane,  in  Widdow.  At  the  Supreme 
Council  of  1646,  Patrick  Sanran  of  Galway  was  one  of  the 
Members;  yet  would  it  seem  he  was  the  same  individual,  to 
vdiom  General  Ireton,  in  1652,  returned  special  thanks,  for  the 
protection  he  had  afforded  to  the  Protestants  during  the 
immediately  preceding  years  of  civil  war;  Ireton  also  gave 
him,  under  hand  and  seal,  permission  to  carry  arms.  He  was 
of  the  Cr^g  line  of  Eirwans,  and  grand&ther  of  the  above 
Captain  Patrick;  while  the  Major  of  this  Begiment,  John 
Bodkin,  was  that  Captain's  maternal  unde.  Patrick  married, 
in  1703,  Mary,  daughter  of  Bichard  Martin  of  Dangan,  and 
succeeded  to  the  Cregg  estates  on  the  death  of  his  own  fiither, 

Martin  Eirwan,  in  1705. In  1677  Bobert  Eirwan  had  a 

grant  of  173  acres  in  Galway,  as  had  in  the  following  year 
the  aforesaid  Martin,  son  of  Patrick,  of  3,634  acres  in  Galway 
and  Mayo,  and  John  Earwan  of  570  in  the  former  County; 
while  in  1683  Edmund,  son  and  heir  of  Alexander  Eirwan, 
passed  patent  for  3,266  Acres  in  Mayo.  Sir  John  Eirwan 
was  Mayor  of  Galway  in  1686,  and  its  Bepresentative  in  the 
Parliament  of  1689.  He  is  said  to  have  been  the  first  who 
introduced  in  that  town  the  modem  style  of  glass  windows, 
in  lieu  of  the  small  leaden  lattices  theretofore  used.  The 
attainders  of  1691  do  not  name  the  above  officer,  but  do  a 
John  of  Galway,  son  of  Bobert  Eirwan ;  and  Martin  Eirwan 


LORD  BOPHIN'S  INFANTBT.  519 

was  then  alao  a  forfehiiig  proprietor  in  e»id  town.  One  of 
this  name  was  a  Lieutenant  in  Lord  Louth's  In&ntry.  Jn 
the  Brigades  this  fiunily  was  distinguished  in  the  perscm  of 
Richard  Kirwan^  the  second  son  of  the  above  Captain  Patrick* 
He  was  sent  out  at  an  early  age  to  study  in  France;  but 
preferring  a  nulitary  life,  he  obtained  a  commission  in  Dillon's 
Brigade,  fought  at  Fontenoy  in  1745»  and  was  a  great 
favourite  with  Lord  Clare  and  Marshal  Saxe.  He  died  at 
Woodfield  in  1779.  His  nephew  was  Biohard  Kirwan,  pre- 
eminently styled  the  Chemist,  accounted  one  of  the  greatest 
philosophers  of  his  day,  and  a  memb^  of  most  of  the  literary 
institutions  of  Eun^. 


CAPTAIN  WILLIAM  BOUBKE. 

Ths  iUustrations  of  the  '  Bourke'  fiunily  occur  cwfe,  at  *  the 
Earl  of  Clanricarde.'  This  officer,  afterwards  promoted  to  a 
Minority,  was  taken  prisoner  at  Aughrim.* 


CAPTAINS  BOBEBT,  JOSEPH,  NICHOLAS, 
AND  MATTHEW  LYNCH; 

LIEUTENANT   PIEBS   AND    HENBY   LYNCH; 

AND  ENSIGNS  STEPHEN  AND  WILLIAM 

LYNCH. 

This  flumly  came  over  to  Irehnd  in  the  first  armament  of  the 
English  Invasion,  and  soon  after  settled  at  Knock  in  the 
County  of  Meath,  hence  called  Ejiock-Lynch.     They  were 

*  Story's  Impart.  Hist,^  pt.  11.,  p.  137. 


520  KING  James's  ibish  armt  list. 

there  frequently  styled  'Lejns/  by  that  spelling  rebeived 
Royal  mandates  to  the  hostings,  and  are  so  denominated  in 
the  current  records  and  state  papers.  A  younger  son  of  this 
house,  migrating  westward,  established  the  name  in  Gkdway,* 
where  his  line  acquired  much  property,  and,  until  the  middle 
of  the  seventeenth  century,  was  one  of  its  most  influential 
fiunilies.  From  them  were  elected  its  first  and  last  Provost, 
and  its  first  and  last  Sovereign ;  six  of  its  Recorders  were 
also  Lynches.  During  this  connection  with  the  place,  they 
efifected  many  public  works  within  this  ancient  town,  much 
strengthened  its  fortifications,  and  founded  various  religious 
houses.  In  1386  Margaret  balagh  '  de  Lenche*  and  Thomas 
'Martyn,'  her  son,  having  complained  to  Robert  de  Vere, 
Marquess  of  Dublin,  and  '  patentee'  of  Ireland,  of  losses  they 
had  sustained,  and  apprehended  they  would  yet  sustain,  from 
jealous  inhabitants  of  Connaught,  the  Marquess  received  them 
into  his  especial  protection.  In  1410  James  Lynch  was 
Collector  of  the  Customs  in  the  harbour  of  Galway,  while 
Alexander  *  Lynche*  was  Commisfiioner  on  an  inquiry  within 
the  franchises  of  Athenry.  In  1484  Dominick  Lynch  pro- 
cured the  Charter  from  Richard  the  Third,  under  which  he 
caused  his  brother  Pierce  to  be  elected  first  Mayor  of  Galway, 
and  was  himself  the  second.  His  son  Stephen  at  the  same 
time  sued  out  the  Bull  of  Pope  Innocent  the  Eighth,  estab- 
lishing in  that  town  the  singular  jurisdiction  of  Warden; 
from  this  period  to  the  time  of  the  Restoration,  in  the  succes- 
sion of  its  Mayors,  no  less  than  eighty-four  were  Lynches, 
and  the  fiunily  is  one  of  the  four  tribes  who  have  an  ^acknow- 
ledged privilege  of  burial  in  the  Cathedral  of  that  town.  In 
the  sixteenth  century  the  name  was  established  in  Mayo. 

*  HardimarCt  Gcdway^  p.  50. 


LORD  bofhin's  infantbt.  521 

In  1537  Henry  the  Eighth  granted  to  Mark,  son  of  the 
aforesaid  Stephen  Lynch,  liberty  to  have  two  nets  on  the 
water  of  Galway,  to  take  sabnon  and  other  fish  in.  In  1584 
John  Lynch,  a  native  of  Gralway,  educated  at  Oxford,  was 
advanced  by  Queen  Elizabeth  to  the  Bishopric  of  Elphin. 
In  Perrot's  Parliament  of  the  folloMring  year,  Jonoke  Lynch 
and  Peter  Lynch  represented  Galway.  In  1602  Richard 
Lynch  was  Bishop  of  Kilmacduagh;  and  in  1617  Thomas 
Lynch  of  Galway,  merchant,  had  a  grant  of  the  manor,  castle, 
town,  and  lands  of  Aquorke,  &c.,  in  Mayo,  to  be  erected  into 
the  manor  of  Aquorke,  with  court  baron,.  &c.  In  the  Parlia- 
ment of  1639  Sir  Robert  Lynch  was  one  of  the  Bepresenta* 
tives  of  Galway.  He  was  proprietor  of  the  Isles  of  Arrant 
which,  on  his  subsequent,  attainder,  were  included  in  the 
grant  to  Erasmus  Smith,  one  of  the  most  considerable  of  the 
London  adventurers  in  Ireland,  whose  title  to  these  islands 
was  afterwards  purchased  by  Richard,  Earl  of  Arran.* 

With  this  Sir  Robert  were  attainted  in  1642  Myles  Lynch 
of  Cloncurry,  Lauren<^  Lynch  of  Creganstown,  in  Meath^ 
and  Oliver  Lynch,  styled  of  Dublin,  but  truly  a  junior 
member  of  the  Knock  fiunily.  No  others  of  that  house  are 
noted  on  the  Roll  of  Outlawries,  as  their  chief  castle  at  the 
Knock  had  been  taken  by  the  Earl  of  Ormonde  in  that  year, 
when  the  besieged,  not  accepting  quarter,  were  all  put  to  the 
sword.t  Of  the  Confederate  Catholics  assembled  at  Ealkenny 
in  1646,  were  Martin,  Nicholas,  and  Roebuck  Lynch  of 
Galway;  and  in  1650  Walter  Lynch  succeeded  to  the  see  of 
Clonfert ;  but  the  most  interesting  individual  of  this  name  to 
posterity,  as  so  honourably  connected  with  the  literature  of  hid 
countiy,  was  the  venerable  Dr.  John  Lynch,  Roman  Catholic 

*  Hardiman'i  Galway,  p.  320.         f  Templets  Jrigh  Rebellion,  p.  80. 


522  KINO  JAMES'S  IBISH  ASMT  LIST. 

* 

Archdeacon  of  Tuam,  and  author  of  that  valuable  xnass  of 
national  hiBtory,  entitled,  Ccmbrenm  Everaui.  When  Galway, 
the  town  of  his  birth,  surrendered  in  1652,  he  fled  to  France, 
where,  under  the  assumed  name  of  Ghratianus  Ludus,  he  pub- 
lished his  work. 

In  the  meantime,  of  the  Meath  line,  Peter  Lynch  died  in 
1613,  seised  of  the  Knock  and  of  sundry  otiier  premises  in 
Laraghcor,  Athboy,  Trim,  &c,  held  of  the  manor  of  Dengyn ; 
Oerald,  his  son  and  heir,  being  then  aged  twenty-two  and 
married;  his  son  and  hear  was  Walter  Lynch.  Li  the  same 
year  Christopher  Lynch  of  Croboy  died  seised  thereof  m 
capiUy  under  the  Crown,  leaving  Bobert  his  son  and  heir, 
then  aged  twenty-four  and  unmarried,  and  he  was  the  head  of 
the  Meath  fiunily  during  the  awM  visitation  <^  Cromwell. 
This  ancioat  proprietor  was  necessitated  to  give  up  his  estates 
to  the  usurping  powers,  and  to  accept  a  certificate  trans- 
planting him  and  his  fiunily  into  the  County  of  Bosoommon, 
where  a  small  allotment  at  the  foot  of  Slieve-Ban  was  all 
conceded  to  him,  to  hold  in  tail  male,  in  lieu  of  what  he  once 
poaseesed  in  Meatii,  in  fee  The  will  of  this  Bobert  Lynch 
or  Leyns,  (whose  last  male  descendant,  it  may  be  allowed  to 
mention,  was  the  author's  maternal  unde),  bears  date  in  1667, 
and  commences  with  a  *  sweet  reminiscence*  of  his  old  home, 
directing  his  interment  ^^in  the  sepuldbre  of  my  dear  motiier, 
children,  and  grand-children,  in  the  church  of  Clonard, 
without  any  great  cost  or  solemnity;  being  banished  into 
Connaught,  and  deprived  of  my  estate,  and  stript  of  all  my 

moveable  goods  and  substance.'* Then,  after  recounting 

his  debts,  and  providing  for  their  due  and  early  payment,  he 
adds,  ''  I  leave  and  bequeath  my  littie  nag  to  my  Uttie  grand- 
child Christopher  Leyns,  and  my  apparel  to  be  distributed  to 
such  poor  as  are  in  want  of  clothes  to  cover  their  nakedness.*' 


LOBD  BOPHIN'8  ikfantbt.  528 

.  •  .  '^  And  in  case  the  Ib.  be  restored,  my  will  is  that  the 
feoffinent  I  made  of  Croboy,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  1631, 
shall  stand  and  be  in  force  according  to  the  intent  thereof." 
Bobert,  the  son  of  the  minor  Christopher,  married  in  1712, 
Anne  Ererard  of  the  &mily  of  Bandalstown  in  Meath,  and, 
as  they  professed  differei^t  reli^ons,  the  existing  state  of  the 
law  necessitated  the  celebration  of  their  union  oat  of  Ireland. 
It  took  place  at  Holyhead,  and  an  unusually  massiye  ring 
commemorating  the  date  is  fidthfully  preserved.  The  estate 
of  Croboy,  here  alluded  to,  was,  in  two  years  after  the  date  of 
this  will,  granted  by  patent  of  Charles  the  Second  chiefly  to 
Charles  Barker,  &om  whom  it  passed  by  purchase  to  the 
ancestor  of  Lord  Langford;  while  little  more  than  twenty 
years  have  elapsed  since  the  Crown  asserted  its  title  to  the 
Boscommon  Cromwellian  allotment,  as  on  failure  of  Ae  %»9ue 
male  of  Bobert. 

In  1677  Nichdas,  son  of  Marcus  Lynch,  passed  patent  for 
1,022  acres  in  Clare,  as  did  Stephen  Lynch,  a  burgess  of 
Qalway,  for  374  in  the  same  county,  and  Thomas  Lynch  and 
Christian  his  mother,  in  the  following  year  for  351  acres  in 
GbJway.  In  this  latter  year  ^  Henry  Lynch,  Baronet,  son 
and  heir  of  Sir  Boebuok,  and  Ellis  his  wife,  had  a  grant  of 
6,420  acres  in  Mayo,  to  hiiii  and  the  heirs  male  of  his  grand- 
father, Sir  Henry  Lynch,  Baronet,  remainder  to  William, 
Earl  of  Clanricarde,  and  his  heirs.  This  Sir  Henry  had 
ftirther  giants  of  1,737  acres  in  Galway,  319  in  Boscommon, 
and  603  in  Clare;  while  George  Lynch,  passed  patent  for 
669  in  Mayo;  Mary  Lynch  and  Michael,  her  son  and  heir, 
for  333  in  Galway,  and  Marcus  for  242  in  the  latter  county. 
In  1679  Isidore  Lynch  had  a  grant  of  1,813  acres  in  Mayo, 
as  had,  in  1681,  Maurice  Lynch  for  541,  and  Thomas, 
Patrick,  and  Matthew  Lynch  for  1,244  acres  in  Galway.     In 


524  KING  James's  ibish  armt  list. 

the  charter  of  1687  to  that  town,  twenty-three  Lynches  were 
placed  upon  the  Burgess  Roll.  In  the  same  year  the  aforesaid 
Sir  Henry  Lynch,  was  appointed  a  Baron  of  the  Lish  Exche« 
quer,  on  Sir  Stephen  Bice  being  advanced  to  be  chief. 
Besides  the  nine  officers  of  the  name  in  this  Begiment,  six 
others  were  commissioned  on  this  list,  in  CarroU^s  Dragoons 
and  in  the  Infimtry  Begiments  of  the  King,  Colonel  Henry 
Dillon,  Lord  Gralway,  and  Dominick  Browne.  In  the  Parlia- 
ment of  1689,  Geoffiy  Lynch  was  one  of  the  Bepresentatives 
of  Qalway,  while  the  hostages  for  its  surrender  in  1691  were 
Lieutenant-Colonels  Lynch,  Burke,  and  Kelly.  The  Attain- 
ders of  1691  include  fourteen  Lynches,  viz.,  Sir  Henry 
Lynch,  styled  of  Dublin,  Terence  of  Kilkenny,  Thady  of 
Shrule,  and  eleven  of  the  County  Ghdway,  on  whose  respe(i- 
tive  estates  various  claims  were  preferred  at  Chichester  Hous^ 
In  1700. 

In  the  August^uiian  Convent  at  Bruges  are  monuments  to 
^  SteverC  Lynch,  who  died  1691;  Agnes  Lynch,  died  1728; 
to  Dominick  Anthcmy  Lynch,  'Eschevin'  of  Bruges  in 
1707,  1711,  1713,  and  1727;  to  Dominick  Lynch,  who  in 
1782  became  a  member  of  the  Society  of  St.  George  there. 
James  Lynch  (son  of  Henry  Lynch,  whose  wife  was 
Anastasia,  daughter  of  Jasper  Joyce),  has  a  sepulchral  monu- 
ment, on  the  outside  of  the  south  wall  of  the  church  of  Notre 
Dame  in  sud  city,  commemorating  his  death  on  the  2l8t  of 
July,  1793,  aged  77.  At  the  battle  of  Lauffield  in  1747, 
*  Colonel  Lynch,  a  la  suitte^  in  Lally^s  Irish  Begiment,  was 
wounded;  and  in  HardimarCs  Galway  (p.  18),  mention  is 
made  of  a  Count  Lynch,  Mayor  of  Bourdeauz,  who  so 
eminently  distinguished  himself  in  the  cause  of  the  Boyal 
Family  of  France  in  opposition  to  Buonaparte. 


LORD  bophin's  intantrt.  525 


LIEUTENANT  LAURENCE  DEANE. 

This  name  Dene,  Dean,  etc.,  is  of  record  in  Lreland  firom 
the  time  of  Edward  the  Second,  more  especially  located 
in  the  Counties  of  Cork  and  Carlow.  Li  1609  Richard 
Dean,  a  native  of  Yorkshire,  succeeded  to  the  See  of  Ossory. 
The  only  attainder  in  1642  of  the  name  is  that  of  Patrick 
Deane  of  Lusk ;  that  in  1691  is  of  Dominick  Deane  of  Cong, 
County  of  Mayo.  In  1666  Joseph  Deane  had  a  confirmatory 
patent  for  8,234  acres  in  Meath,  E^ilkenny,  and  Down;  and 
another  in  1669  for  1,079  additional  in  Ealkenny;  in  the 
latter  grant  he  is  styled  Major  Joseph.  In  1677  Thomas 
Deane,  merchant,  had  a  similar  grant  of  2,207  acres  in 
Galway  and  Mayo,  as  had  Stephen  Deane  of  787  in  the  same 
localities.  In  1714  Joseph  Deane  was  appointed  Chief 
Baron  of  the  Irish  Exchequer.  The  kindred,  however,  of 
the  above  officer  is  unknown. 


LIEUTENANT  DOMINICK  LOVELOCK. 

He  was  attainted  in  1691,  as  Dominick  Lovelock  of  MiU- 
town,  County  of  Gralway ;  no  more  is  known  of  him. 


ENSIGN  JOHN  MADDEN. 

He  was  indited  in  1691  as  of  Longford,  County  of  Galway, 
and  was  ancestor  of  the  present  Dr.  B.  B.  Madden,  so  well 
known  and  respected  in  various  walks  of  literature. 


526 


KING   JAMESS   IRISH   ARMY   LIST. 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 


COLONEL  OLIVBB  O'OABA'S,  LATE  COLONEL  IBIEL 

fabrell's. 


Capkmu. 
Th«  Colonel 

Lleatenaiit-ColoneL 

Thftdj  0'C<Mmor. 
Mi^or. 

JohnConiy. 

IGchael  Sbaoljr. 
Green  Mulloy. 

Wflliam  Hnlloj. 

WnUam  Shaaky. 

LanghUn  Nanghton. 

Daniel  *  Kellev.' 
John  *  KeUej.'^ 

Chaiifli  Fkfflips. 

Biyan  MHstowran. 

Owen  Gallagher. 
Chriatopher  BeUew. 
Heniy  M*Dennott  Roe. 
Bryan  Doff  M'Dennott. 


Ifichael  Shanley. 


EmignM. 
Faigiis  Farrell. 


Bryan  Coniy. 

1  Nicholas  White. 

Theobald  Hnlloy. 
Thadjr  Shanley. 
Ednrand  Naoghton. 

S-Edmnndl>07le. 

Connor  ICDennott 

Daniel  M*Gowran. 

FfitfreU  QaUagfaer. 
Nicholas  Benningham. 
Roger  If  <I>ennott 


Thadjlfshon. 

Charles  Dillon. 

John  Connor. 
Paul  Didgenana 
Thomas  Nanghton. 

Daniel 'Kell^.' 

Gfldnife  FhilUps. 

{Torlogh  RmoMs. 
Morgan  M*Donough. 

OwenGaUas^. 

Wmiam  O'Gara. 

Arthur  H'lCanns.* 

Thomas  Walgrave. 


None  of  the  names  of  those  commissioned  on  this  Raiment 
are  ^ven  in  the  Britidi  Moseom  List. 


o'oara's  infantry.  527 


COLONEL  OLIVER  O'GARA. 

Th£  0*Grara8  were  the  ancient  territorial  Lords  of  Moy-Grara 
and  Coolavin,  in  the  County  of  Sligo.  So  early  as  in  the 
year  1056,  the  Four  Masters  record  the  death  of  Boderio 
O^Gara;  and  their  valuable  and  extensiye  Chronicle,  origina- 
ting in  the  patronage  of  Femd  O'Gara  in  the  conunencement 
of  the  seventeenth  century,  is  particularly  full  in  details,  of 
this  sept.  Their  dedication  prodaims  him  '^  a  desceidant  of 
the  race  of  Heber,  son  of  Milesius,  which  gave  Ireland  thirty 
monarchs,  while  sixty-one  of  that  race  died  in  the  odour  of 
sanctity."  Hie  antiquary,  Michael  O^piery,  who  had  at  the 
time  peculiar  resources  for  verifying  native  g^eal<^es,  many 
of  which  perished  in  the  inmiediately  ensuing  wars,  confi- 
dently traces  the  lineage  of  this  Ferral  O^Gara  up  ninety- 
three  generations.  In  1615,  when  he  was  a  minor,  % 
Theobald  Dillon,  Knight,  had  a  grant  of  his  wardship  as  the 
grandson  and  next  heir  of  Iriel  O'Oara,  deceased;  he  was 
afterwards,  in  1634,  llie  Representative  of  the  County  of 
Sligo  in  Parliament.  The  ccmfiscations  and  ravages  of 
Cromwdl,  however,  left  but  little  of  their  rank  <»*  territory 
remaining  at  this  period,  when  tiie  above  Colonel  Oliv^  was 
the  head  of  l&e  sept.  He  also  was  <me  of  the  RepresentativeB 
for  the  County  dP  Sligo  in  the  Parliament  of  Dublin,  and 
was  connected  by  marriage  widi  the  Lady  Maiy  Fleming, 

• 

daughter  of  Lord  Shme  and  widow  of  Richard  Fleming  of 
Stahalmock,  by  whom  he  left  issue  four  sons;  the  three  elder 
of  these  entered  the  Spanish  service;  the  first  died  in  the  rank 
of  a  Kigadier;  the  second  was  Colonel  of  the  Regiment  of 
Hibernia;  the  third,  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the  Regiment  of 


528  KINO  JAM£8*S  IBISH  ABHT  LIST. 

Irelandia,  who  so  signalized  himself  at  the  battle  of  Veletri 
in  Italy  in  1743,  that  the  King  of  Spain  rewarded  him  with  a 
commandeiship  in  the  order  of  Calatrava.  The  fourth  son 
was  baptized  Charles,  in  the  Royal  Chapel  at  St.  Grermain's, 
in  July,  1699,  and  for  him,  while  yet  very  young,  Colonel 
Oliver  obtained,  through  his  countryman  and  friend  Count 
Taafie,  Earl  of  Carlingford,  an  introduction  to  Leopold,  Duke 
of  Loriain,  who  appointed  him  first  equerry  to  his  two  sons; 
the  eldest  of  whom,  when  he  became  Emperor  of  Grermany^ 
created  this  Charles  an  Imperial  Coundllor  of  State,  a  Cham- 
berlain and  Knight  of  the  Grolden  Fleece ;  he  was  also  made 
a  Count.  He  lived  to  the  age  of  76,  when  he  died  at 
Brussels,  in  opulent  drcumstances,  but  without  issue.* 

The  Regiment  here  under  consideration  was  raised  by 
Colonel  Oliver  at  his  own  expense  and  was  one  of  four  which 
King  James,  when  tailing  back  upon  Ardee,  despatched 
under  the  command  of  Brigadier  Sarsfield,  in  September, 
1689,  to  retard  the  advance  of  the  Williamite  forces  into 
Connaught,t  and  which  soon  after  expelled  them  from  that 
province.  Story  states  that  Colonel  O'Gara  was  killed  at  the 
siege  of  Athlone  in  June,  1691 ;  but  if  he  intended  to  refer 
this  statement  to  Colonel  Oliver,  it  was  erroneous,  as  A«  is 
known  to  have  witnessed  the  articles  of  Limerick,  and  accom* 
panied  the  Irish  emigrants  to  the  Continent,  where  he  was 
appointed  Lieutenant-Colonel  to  Elng  Jameses  fine  Regiment 
of  Irish  Foot-Guards,  amounting,  before  its  departure  fit>m 
Limerick  to  France,  to  1,400  men4  This  reduction  of  his 
rank  to  a  post  subordinate  to  Colonel  William  Dorrington, 
was  soon  redressed  by  his  appointment  to  the  Colonelcy  of 

*  CrCaUagharCs  Brigades^  yoL  I,  p.  164.    f  Clarke's  James  11.^  ▼.  2,  p.  982. 

t  (TCaOagharCi  Irish  Brigades,  p.  164,  &c. 


0*aABA'8  INFANTBT.  529 

the  Qaeen*8  Dragoons.  He  was  attainted  in  1691|  with 
*  Maria*  his  wife,  John  O^Gara  of  Clunoghill,  and  Boger  and 
Morgan  '  Grara'  of  BaUyhowla,  County  Sligo.  It  may  be 
added  that  the  Severend  Nicholas  O'Grara,  fidthful  to  the 
memory  of  his  country  in  a  foreign  land,  was  a  valuable  col- 
lector of  Irish  poems  in  the  Netherlands*  In  1734  Bryan 
O'Gara  was  Roman  Catholic  Archbishop  of  Tuam^  as  was 
Michael  O'Gara  in  1742. 


MAJOR  THADY  O'CONNOR. 

Th£  Sept  of  O'Connor  has  been  herein  ah-eady  written  of, 
in  two  of  its  Royal  lines,  those  of  Ballintobber  and  Keny. 
From  the  same  stock  as  the  former,  «.«.,  from  Turlough  mare 
O'Connor,  who  was  King  of  Ireland  in  the  twelfth  century, 
the  officer  here  in  commission  was  lineally  descended,  through 
Bryan  Luigneach,  a  younger  son  of  Turlough,  mentioned  by 
the  Four  Masters  ad  ann.  1156.  The  links  of  succession 
from  him  to  Donal  O'Connor  who  was  slain  in  1307,  are 
shown  by  that  authority  at  this  year,  and  in  their  obit  they 
style  him  tanist  or  heir  elect  to  the  Crown  of  Connaught. 
'  In  accordance  with  which  recognition  of  Royalty,  the  same 
annalists  record  at  1324  the  death  of  Cathal  O'Connor, 
Kino  of  Connaught,  son  of  Donal,  son  of  Tdgue,  son 
of  Bryan,  son  of  Andrew,  son  of  Bryan  Luigneach,  son  of 
Turlogh  fiu>re.'  In  1329  died  Murtogh  O'Connor,  Lord  of 
Carburry  in  Sligo,  as  did  his  grandson  Murtogh  boceagh 
O'Connor  m  1403  at  the  Castle  of  Sligo,  '  Lord  of  Sligo  and 
of  northern  Connaught,'  an  inheritance  which  was  enjoyed  by 

♦  TVofi*.  Ihem,  Celt,  p.  97  and  174. 
VOL.  II.  2   M 


580  KING  JAMBS'S  IBI8H  ABKT  LIST. 

hii  grandson,  Owen,  until  his  death  in  1444,  in  a  feud  with 
the  McDonoughfl.  The  military  strength  of  the  Sept  is 
especially  noticed  by  the  native  chronides,  as  *  the  CaYahry  of 
Carbury,*  and  its  services  were  partioularly  sought  in  1482  in 
active  hostilities  against  the  ODonnells,  by  whom  the  castle 
of  Sligo  was  taken  in  1470,  when  the  victors  recovered  the 
possession  of  the  Leabhar^fuxrHcvdhre^  an  Irish  manuscript  on 
vellnm  of  some  note  (now  in  the  fibrary  of  the  Boyal  Irish 
Academy),  which  had  been  held  by  the  O'Connors-Sligo  during 
the  time  of  ten  successive  lords  of  Carbury .  It  was  compiled 
and  written  at  Clonmacnois  in  the  twelfth  century;  and  con- 
tains an  entry  showing  it  to  have  been  in  1345  in  the  possession 
of  Donal  O'Connor,  son  of  Murtogh,  son  of  the  aforesaid 
Donel,  son  of  Teigue,  son  of  Brien,  son  of  Andrew,  son  of 
Brian  Luigneach,  son  of  Turloj^  more^^  thus  &r  corroborating 
the  family  pedigree. 

At  1488  the  Four  Masters  commemorate  the  death  of 
Teigue,  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  Turlogh  O'Connor,  ^  the  most 
worthy  young  man  of  the  tribe  of  Brian  Luigneach.'  They 
say  that  he  died  'exactly  on  Easter  night/  adding  that 
'  Dermod,  a  son  of  Teigue  the  tanist  lord  of  his  tribe,  a  man 
by  whose  hand  more  of  his  enemies  fell  than  by  any  other 
person  in  Ireland  in  his  time,  died  in  the  same  year  of  a 
severe  complaint,  after  a  long  suffering.'  In  1494  perished 
Donal  son  of  the  aforesaid  Owen  O'Connor  (of  1444),  then 
chief  of  the  Sligo  Sept,  *  a  prosperous  courageous  man,  who 
held  the  country  from  the  Curlews  (mountains)  to  BundufE^ 
and  who  abounded  in  prosperity  and  wealth;  he  fell  in  an 
attack  on  the  Castle  of  Bunfinn.'  In  the  following  year 
died  in  Sligo,  Boderic,  son  of  Turlogh  earragh  O'Connor, 
Lord  of  Carbury  of  Drumdiffe,  and  the  death  of  Cathal  oge^ 
son  of  the  aforesud  Donell,  son  of  Owen,  in  1513  is  recorded 


o'qara'b  infantry.  531 

by  the  Four  Biastera.  Yet  was  it  not  until  the  year  1536 
that,  aooording  to  the  same  authority,  'Teigue  oge^  son  of 
Hugh,  eon  of  Turlogh  carragh  O'Connor,  was  styled  Connor, 
for  he,  who  until  then  had  the  leadership  or  chief  command  of 
the  tribe,  was  styled  McDonnell  McMurtough;  and  it  vras 
for  sake  of  honour  and  in  order  to  outshine  the  lords  who  had 
preceded  him,  that  he  made  this  change  in  the  name.'  This 
now  CyOonnor  and  Cathal  oge  O'Connor  made  an  incursion 
against  the  Clan-Costello ;  and  in  the  ensuing  year  an  army 
was  led  by  the  O'Connor-Sligo  against  the  O'Connor  roe. 

In  1538  an  anny  led  by  Manus  O'Donnell  took  the  castle 
of  Sligo  from  Cathal  oge.  In  1567  « Sir  Donald  O'Connor- 
Sligo  went  oyer  to'  London  to  acknowledge  his  loyal  duty 
to  Queen  Elizabeth,  at  which  time  he  made  complaint  that 
the  castle  of  Bundroose  was  ¥rithheld  from  him  by  O'Donnell, 
as  were  the  castles  of  Bailintogher  by  O'Bourke  and  Ardnaree 
by  Owen  Burke's  sons,  and  flanking  his  territory ;  all  which 
matters  Her  Majesty  ordered  should  be  inquired  into,  and 
that  restitution  should  be  made  of  any  goods  that  might  be 
spoliated  from  him  during  his  absence :  and  the  Queen  further 
dechured  that  she  was  well  satisfied  that  the  Friary  of  Sligo, 
wherdb  the  eepuUure  of  hie  anceetore  hoe  been^  should  be 
preserved,  die  friara  there  being  converted  into  secular  priests.' 
To  Penrot's  memorable  Parliament  held  in  Dublin,  in  1585, 
the  above  Sir  Donald  O'Connor  was  summoned,  and,  on  that 
solemn  oooaoion  it  was  judiciously  detennined  by  the  Four 
Masters  to  record  his  lineage  for  six  preceding  generations, 
%.e.f  as  Donal  son  of  Teigue,  son  of  Cathal  oge^  son  of  Donal, 
son  of  Owen,  son  of  Donal,  son  of  Murtogh.  He  had  sub- 
nutted  by  indenture  to  Sir  Henry  Sydney  and  passed  patent 
for  his  aadent  inheritance,  on  a  new  English  tenure.  He 
had  a  son  who  died  five  years  before  the  meeting  of  Perrot's 


532  KING  JAMBS'S  IBI8H  \RMT  LIST. 

Parliament;  '  an  only  son,  the  more  lamented  in  the  countrjr 
becaose  the  worthy  conple,  fiom  whom  this  noble  youlh 
sprang,  had  no  hope  or  expectation  of  any  other  issue;  and, 
had  he  lived,  he  would,  after  the  death  of  his  fiither,  have  been 
the  sole  h^  and  successor  to  the  couniary  from  Moy-Ceidne 
io  Kesh-Corran,  and  from  Moy  to  the  boundary  of  BreflBo^.^ 
Sir  D(»iald  himself  died  in  1588,  about  which  time  his 
daughter,  Maud  0*C<Mmor,  intermarried  with  Theobald  Bourke 
of  Moneyerower  Castle  in  the  Barony  of  EHmaine,  fiom 
which  union  have  descended  the  Viscounts  and  Earls  of 
Mayo. 

The  chiefry  of  a  fSunily  so  extended  over  Sl%o  did  not 
become  extinct  on  the  death  of  Sir  Donald.  EQs  nephew 
Donogh  0*Connor,  who  had  for  some  previous  years  sojourned 
in  England,  returned  to  this  country  in  1596,  ^  with  a  great 
number  of  English  along  with  him,'  and  immediately  after  he 
commenced  hostilities  against  the  O'Donnell.  In  1598  he 
took  the  castle  of  Ballymote,  which  was  held  by  an  English 
garrison.  In  the  following  year,  however,  he  attended  the 
Earl  ci  Essex  in  his  professedly  peaceful  excursion  into  Mun- 
ster.  In  1601  he  was  taken  prisoner  by  Hugh  ruadk 
O'Donnell,  a  movement  which  the  Four  Masters  attribute  to 
a  rumour  having  reached  him,  that  the  Queen  jMroposed  to 
permit  the  young  Earl  of  Desmond,  then  a  prisons  in 
London,  to  return  to  his  patrimony;  and,  as  his  mother  was 
at  that  time  the  wife  of  the  O'Connor- Sligo,  O'Donnell  feared 
that  an  extension  of  the  Boyal  clemency  would  restore  some 
of  O'Connor's  confiscations  to  him.  He  therefore  consigned 
Donough  to  captivity  on  an  island  of  Lough  Eask  near 
Donegal,  whence  he  was  not  released  until  the  Summer  of 
the  following  year.  In  a  Boyal  patent  of  1603,  purporting 
to  be  a  Boll  of  general  pardon  to  the  inhabitants  of  Sligo, 


o*oaba's  infantbt,  538 

he  U  named  as  Donogh,  Hhe  O'Connor-Sligoe;*  and  in  this 
wmesty  are  also  inoladed  Teigue  oge  O'Connor,  son  of  Cahill 
oge;  Bory  and  Conn,  sons  of  Owen  O'Connor  of  Orange; 
Murtogh  hoceagh  O'Connor  with  four  other  O'Connors  of 
Donalley  (who  had  in  1617  grants  of  some  small  fragments 
of  their  andent  territory),  and  twenty-eight  more  in  difierent 
localities  of  the  county. 

In  the  aforesaid  year  (1603)  King  James  directed  a  com- 
mission of  inquiry  as  to  the  mears  and  bounds  of  the  territory 
of  Tirconell,  distinguiBhing  it  from  the  lands  of  O'Dogfaertie, 
O'Connor-Sligo,  and  the  other  chieftains  of  those  parts,  and 
an  inquisition  was  held  therefor  at  Donegal  in  the  November 
of  that  year.  All  Ireland  having  been  then  in  point  of  fiu^t 
reduced  to  English  rule,  King  James  laid  the  foundation  for 
general  findings  of  the  Crown's  paramount  title  to  certain 
lands,  advowsons,  and  similar  interests  m  the  respective 
counties  thereof, '  as  well  those  of  ancient  inheritance  as  those 
subsequently  acquired  by  individual  confiscations,  and  by  the 
dissolution  of  religious  houses.'  The  inquisitions  taken  with 
this  object  in  Sligo  were  held  in  1617  and  1618,  and  they 
found  sundry  lands  vested  in  the  Eing  by  reason  of  the 
attainders  of  Teigue  O'Connor  of  Anagh,  Connor  O'Connor 
and  sundry  others  jof  the  name.  Donogh  did  not  live  to 
witness  this  severance  of  his  old  rights;  he  died  about  the 
year  1609,  leaving  Charles  his  eldest  son  then  under  age, 
and  whose  wardship  was  granted  by  the  King  in  1613  to 
Faithftd  Fortescue,  while  the  rights  of  the  minor  in  rents, 
customs,  and  services  out  of  various  lands  in  Sligo  were 
expressly  saved  for  him,  as  *  a  minor  and  the  King's  ward'  in 
a  grant  of  such  lands  to  Sir  Charles  Wilmot,  Knight,  in 
1615.  This  Charles  died  in  1634  leaving  one  daughter  his 
only  issue,  of  whom  no  record  is  preserved. 


5M  KDIO  JAIUS'S  IKIflH  ABUT  U8T. 

Wtllm  the  iinc  nmg  cf  tlie  IkmiinBM  m 

in  the  will  near  the  easfeem  window,  and  on  the  ng^cf  llie 

altwr  fltoods  *  vfgj  beMitifiiIfy  exeented  nwnHHWiit  in  nalive 

muUe,  senDounfeed  bj  n  emcifiz,  immediate  nnder  wUdi 

ore  oanred  the  fiunily  umorials,  widi  llie  symbola  of  royilty  in 

•  lion  crowned,  an  oak  tree,  Ac,  while,  on  tiie  body  of  the 

monnment  finelj  canred  in  baa  idief,  two  figorea  repreaant 

the  (yConnor-Sligo  and  hia  Ladj,  kneding;  Ida  handa  aie 

placed  together  aa  in  prajer,  her'e  hold  n  book  which  ahe  ia 

reading.    He  ia  repreaented  dreaaed  in  a  coat  of  mail,  hia  head 

nncoyered,  and  his  hebnet  with  Tizor  lyiii^  at  hia  fiset    9ie 

ia  robed  gTacefaUy,  a  chain  fsX  beads  wi^  a  ckmb  hnng  round 

hoc  neck,  and  a  coronet  on  her  head.    The  lower  part  of  this 

tomb  ia  covered  with  angek'  bnata,  deathe*  heada,  a  winged 

hoor-glaaa  and  other  elaborate  embleme  of  mortality.  Flanked 

by  cherubim  ia  an  inscription,  which,  aa  wdl  aa  it  can  now  be 

decyphered  and  yerified,  records  the  erectbn  thereof  in  1624 

by  Eleanor  Batler,  a  daughter  of  l4»d  Dunboyne,  who, 

having  first  married  the  Earl  of  Deamond,  became  aob- 

seqaenily  the  wife  of  Sir  Donogh  0*Connor>Sligo ;  ad£ng 

that  Elizabeth,  a  daughter  of  her*a  by  her  first  huaband,  waa 

buried  therein. 

According  to  the  concoiring  traditions  of  two  lines  of  the 
0*Connor-Sligo,  this  Sir  Donogh  had  two  l»otihera,  one 
the  aforesaid  Murtogh  boecaghj  and  the  second  Melaghlin  or 
Loughlin;  with  one  daughter,  Una,  who  married  Francb 
French  then  located  at  Sessueman  Castle  in  SHgo,  and  firom 
their  union  has  descended  the  Frenchpark  Ime  of  that  fiunily-^ 
Lords  de  Freyne. 

Murtogh,  it  has  been  shown,  had  grant  of  a  pardon 
from  the  King  in  1603;  but,  on  the  disturbance  of  Irish 
fiunilies   which    ensued    from   Jameses   Plantation,  he  was 


■v^i^HiB^P^iSV 


O'QARA's   UfFANTBT.  535 

fittn  to  repair  for  shelter  to  the  th^i  Beduded  woods  of 
Anagh  (now  Hadewood)  at  which  plaoe  his  son,  Teigne 
reoded,  and  whoe,  from  his  impoyerished  condition  and 
I^ysical  infirmities,  he  was  snffisred  to  remain  undistorbed  to 
his  death.  Those  lands  of  Anagh  were  in  1620  dedaied 
confiscated  by  this  Teigae's  attainder  as  before  mentioned. 
He  left  a  son,  Charles,  who  was  permitted  to  rest  in  Anagh; 
bat,  in  his  landless  condition  he  sunk  into  obscurity.  He  had 
two  sons,  Martin  and  Murtogh,  the  latter  Bt]^ed  of 
was  attainted  in  1691,  and  died  without  issue.  Martin 
at  Anagh  and  was  buried  at  Sligo;  his  eldest  son,  Owen, 
was  attainted  with  his  uncle  in  1691,  whereupon  he  remoyed 
to  Carrowlustia,  while  he  rented  Edenbawn  firom  the  Qrmsbys, 
and  on  his  death  was  laid  with  his  long  line  of  ancestors  at 
Sligo.  His  eldest  son,  Denis,  was  bom  at  Ldsdufiv  a&w 
Carrowlustia,  in  1681,  and  dying  there  in  1757  was  interred 
at  Clogher  in  the  parish  of  Calry,  leaying  one  son,  Caihal, 
also  bom  at  lisduff  in  1723,  where  he  died  in  1787,  and  was 
buried  ^vnth  his  fiitiier  at  Clogher.  The  eldest  son  of  Cathal, 
Denis  junior,  was  likewise  bom  at  Ldsduff  in  1749,  and  died 
at  Edenbawn  in  1836.  He  had  a  numerous  fiimily  of  whom 
1.  Connell,  his  eldest  son,  bom  in  1779,  is  yet  liying,  and  has 
a  large  fiunily,  all  of  whom  haye  emigrated  to  America.  2. 
Patrick,  bom  in  1782,  died  in  1832,  and  was  buried  in  the 
<sentre  of  the  great  aisle  in  Sligo  Abbqr»  surrounded  by  those 
of  his  name  and  lineage,  who  now  claim  only  that  narrow 
xesling  place  in  the  principalily  of  their  fiire&tiiers.  This 
Patrick  left  three  sons,  Denis,  James,  and  Petet,  with  four 
daughters,  of  whom  Maiy  the  eldest  is  ihe  yrafe  of  John 
Kelly  of  Essex-Lawn  in  the  County  of  Boscommon,  as  is 
Anna  of  Joseph  Mulhall  of  Boyle;  Ellen  of  Martin  Madden 
of  Camp-hill  Colooney;  and,  Lizzie  is  unmarried.    3.  John, 


536  KIHO  JAIOBS'S  IBUH  ABKT  U8T. 

the  tloid  Mm  of  Denis  junior  died  in  1852  Qetsmg  two  sons 
Patt  and  John).  4.  James,  the  foorth,  a  plaoter  at  Trinidad 
died  in  1827  nnmanied;  and  5.  Peter,  the  fifth,  is  a  joadj 
inflnmtift^  gentkman  of  confiiderable  property  and  high 
dayracCer  in  the  County  of  Sligo- 

Having  tnused  the  elder  line  of  the  (yConnor-Sligo,  that 
of  M^l«igl»lwi  or  LoQ^din  is  next  entitled  to  cooffldemtion; 
he  too  aoffeied  hj  the  Plantation,  and  an  inqniotion  taken 
on  his  poflsenons  in  Mayo  in  1620  at  Ballyna&d  is  recorded 
in  the  BoUs  of  Chancery.  On  his  expokion  thence  he  settled 
at  Kilduany  in  the  Coonty  of  Galway.  Some  time  after  he 
had  redded  there  the  Ciyil  war  of  ^41'  broke  onl^  and,  a  heavy 
persecation  having  been  directed  by  the  Usurpers  against  the 
Catholic  clergy,  this  Loughlin's  active  charity  for  the  priest- 
hood of  his  church  was  acknowledged  in  a  deed  of  20th  June, 
1645,  executed  by  John  de  Burgh,  Archbishop  of  Tuam,  to 
'Loughlin  O'Connor  of  Salduany;'  in  which  the  Prelate 
declares,  'whereas  we  are  now  in  prison  in  the  town  of 
Gblway  for  God's  cause,  and  whereas  the  sdd  LougUin  hath 
supported  us  with  his  own  meat  and  money,  to  our  no  small 
comfort,  we  hereby  r^nit  him  certain  moneys;  and  request 
him  to  take  out  of  the  church  of  St.  Mary  in  Tuam  a  statue 
of  the  Blessed  Virgin,  and  keep  it  till  better  times  come.' 
The  sdd  Archbishop  was  soon  afterwards  with  thirty  priests 
put  on  board  an  old  vessd  which  was  scuttled  and  sunk  out- 
dde  the  Ides  of  Arran.     Loughlin  married  a  daughter  of 

O'Buaic,  of  Bre&ey,  and  died  in  1677,  as  testified  by  a 

tombstone  in  the  'church  of  the  shrine'  at  Tuam,  and  he  left 
by  his  sdd  wife  four  sons,  Hugh,  Tfaady,  Bryan,  and  Malachy. 
When  Gdway  was  bedeged  in  1652  by  Sir  Chades  Coote,  a 
large  force  was  assembled  by  this  Thady  and  Bryan  for  its 
relief    Coote  despatched  a  regiment  of  Dragoons  to  attack 


o'gaba's  utfantrt.  537 

them  at  Sylane,  where  they  were  encamped,  the  Dragoons 
forded  the  river  Clare  at  Cloonfuah,  but  were  driven  back 
into  the  river  with  great  loss.  Becent  excavations  and  clear- 
ings here  have  thrown  up  evidences  of  this  engagement  in 
several  spear-heads,  bridle-bits  and  spnrs  of  the  &shion  of  the 
day.  The  brothers  with  their  forces  immediately  marched 
for  Gralway,  but  soon  receiving  intelligence  of  its  surrender, 
their  forces  dispersed  and  themselves  escaped  to  France, 
where  both  died  tmmarried.  Hugh  married  Alice,  daughter 
of  John  Lynch  of  Tobbemadly  (Belwell),  and  had  by  her 
two  sons,  Dermot  and  Hugh,  the  latter  died  young.  Dermot 
who  was  bom  in  1700,  married  Mabel,  daughter  of  OTlynn* 
of  Furlough,  County  Galway,  and  granddaughter  of  Sir 
fiedmond  Burke  of  Glynsk,  and  he  died  in  1793,  leaving  two 
sons  and  two  daughters.  His  eldest  son  Captain  Edmund  of 
the  Green  Horse,  afterwards  the  5th  Dragoons,  died  in  1782 
unmarried,  when  the  Right  Beverend  Dr.  Thomas  O'Connor, 
Boman  Catholic  Bishop  of  Achonry,  the  second  son  of 
Dermot  O'Connor,  became  his  heir,  the  last  male  of  the  Sligo 
fiutnily  in  this  line.  Of  the  two  daughters  of  Dermot,  Anne, 
the  eldest,  married  John  Melville,  an  officer,  and  their  only 


*  The  Sept  of  OTlynn  (whom  0*Heerm  styles  *a  tribe  of  the  purest 
pedigree*)  is  noticed  by  the  native  annalists  as  settled  at  a  very  remote 
period  on  the  borders  of  Lough  Neag^  where  they  started  up  to  oppose 
the  progress  of  de  Conroey  in  Ulster,  ttid  drove  him  back  in  II77  dis* 
oomfited  and  wounded  to  Dublin.  Their  subsequent  poflsession  of  a 
territory  in  Bosoommon  extending  into  Galway,  and  the  succession  of 
their  chiefs  there  are  very  fully  noticed  by  the  Four  Masters.  The  name 
does  not  appear  commissioned  on  thb  Army  list,  but,  as  the  attainders  of 
1696  describes  that  of  Fiachra  0*Flynn,  then  Chief  of  that  Sept,  their 
adhesion  to  the  Stuart  cannot  be  doubted.  This  Fiachra  is  described  in 
the  Inqmsitioii  as  of  Ballinlough,  County  Bosoommon. 


538  KINO  JAHB8*8  IBI8H  ASMT   LIST. 

■on  died  in  1607,  uunaxried.  Mabel,  Dermoids  fleoond 
danghter,  manied  Thomae  Donelan  of  Petemrdl,  the  lineal 
deaoendant  of  Sir  Jamea  Donelan,  who  was  Lord  Chief 
JuBtiee  of  tlw  Common  Pleas,  Irehrnd,  in  die  year  after  the 
Bestaration.  The  present  Thomas  O'Connor  Donebm  of 
Sylane  in  Galway  ia  the  grandson  of  tibe  albceaaid  Thomas  of 
PefeeraweUL  Of  the  Donelan  pedigree  see  amU  at  ^Captain 
Mfllaghlin  Donelan.' 

To  rerert  to  the  principalily,  firom  wbkik  tibeae  OComMra 
deriyed  thdr  cognomen.  The  artntrBry  policy,  conoeiyed  by 
Ejiig  Jamea,  was  willingiy  adopted  in  the  snooeeding  reign 
by  the  ill-fiited  £atl  of  Strafford.  Through  a  memoaikAe 
Inquisition  directed  against  Connaught  in  1638,  he  sought 
to  eatabliah,  on  the  oaths  of  jurors  of  its  sereral  ooimties, 
that  all  the  lands  therein,  notwithstanding  prior  giants  to 
individuals,  were  then  vested  absolutdy  in  the  Crown,  and 
this  construction  was  affirmed  by  tiie  verdicts  of  the  jvrars 
of  Connan^xt,  with  the  sngle  exception  of  those  of  Gal- 
way. The  ensuing  attainders  Cdl  with  awfiil  desolation 
on  the  O'Connors-Sligo,  while  Cromwell's  Ordinance  of 
1652  denounced  the  aforesaid  Teigne  O'Connor^SBIgo  with 
Charles  and  Hugh  O'Connor,  his  alleged  brothers.  The 
acknowledgment  of  Boyal  gratitude  '  for  services  beyond  the 
seas'  in  1665,  includes  Ensign  Daniel  OConnor,  described 
as  of  the  County  Mayo,  bat  he  was  in  tmth  of  the  Sligo 
Sept.  At  this  time  an  intention  of  granting  the  estates 
of  the  O'Connor-SKgo  to  Wffliam  Earl  of  Strafford,  son 
of  Eail  Thomas,  who  had  held  the  Inquiation  of  1638, 
having  been  made  known,  the  ^1649'  Offioera,  who  expected 
allotments  and  reprisals  thereout,  petitioned  against  a  dause, 
which  was  sought  to  be  introduced  in  the  Act  of  Settlement 
for  tiie  Strafford  ol»|ect,  allqjing  that  claims,  which  had  been 


o'oaba's  infamtbt.  589 

made  at  the  Coiuifiil  Board  in  August,  1641,  on  the  EarPB 
behalf  had  been  then  rejected;  while  another  petition  of 
Biohard  Loid  Colooney,  Sir  Fxancis  Gore  and  Alderman 
EiasmiiB  Smith,  yet  more  earnestly  <yppoeed  the  pasaiii^  of 
mxaii  gnmt;  and  theirs  set  forth  particularly  the  state  of 
O'Connor's  property.  In  1674  however  a  very  long  and 
foil  grant  was  made  by  King  Charles  to  the  said  Earl 
William  and  to  Thomas  Baddiffe,  for  a  very  huge  portion 
of  what  had  been  theretofore  for  oentuiies  the  tenitory  of 
this  sept.  It  comprised  the  manor,  town  and  lands  of  Sligo, 
with  a  fishing  weir  and  mills  thereunto  belonging,  the  islands 
of  Innismuiry  and  Denynish,  the  Castle  o£  Dunally  aforesaid, 
with  various  rectories  and  chiefries;  the  lands  of  Anagh 
with  many  thousands  of  acres  in  the  Baronies  of  Carbury, 
Corren,  Tyr»»^  and  Tyrenill,  subject  to  the  rents  and 
services  theretofore  made  payable  to  King  Charles  the  First, 
and  saving  the  rights  of  certain  children  of  Sir  Francis 
Blmidel  under  mortgages  created  for  their  benefit  and  in 
trust  by  Dono^  O'Connor-Sligo.  The  interest  of  these 
patentees  was  soon  after  sold  by  them  to  Bichard  Earl  of 
Colooney,  and  all  rights  of  the  old  proprietors  were  disre- 
garded. Yet  still  devoted  to  the  ungralefid  Stuarts,  or 
rather  should  it  be  said  to  their  own  religion  and  their 
oountry,  the  landless  victims  gathered  round  the  standard 
of  James  in  this  war.  The  Thady,  who  ranks  Major  in  this 
B^giment,  is  desdibed  in  his  attainder  as  of  Cloonkeely 
otherwise  MuUagh,  a  townland  which  immediately  adjoins 
Sylane,  the  estate  of  the  befine-mentioned  Thomas  O'Connor 
Dondan,  and  which  is  proveable  by  patents  to  have  belonged 
to  the  O'Connors.  Owen  O'Connor  also  described  as  of 
Cloonkeely  was  then  attainted,  with  Patrick  of  Dunally, 
Murtagfa  of  Aghill,  and  Hugh  of  Longford. 


540  KING  JAMMS'a  1BI8H  ▲BXT  USX. 

It  is  suggested  by  a  moniimait  at  Brussels  that  a  Daniel 
O'Connor-SligOt  possibly  a  gnoidson  ot  Enogn  Daniel  of 
1665  had  served  in  this  war,  thon^  not  named  on  the  present 
Army  last.  The  inscription  thereon  ooounemorates  ^the 
iUostrious  Daniel  0'Connor-Sligo»  a  Lieutenant-Grenend  in 
the  Austrian  service,  who  had  served  sucoeeeively  under 
James  the  Second,  Louis  the  Fourteenth,  the  Duke  of 
Lorraine,  and  lastly,  under  Austria,  and  who  died  at  Brusseb 
in  1756  aged  ninety-two.* 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  CONRY. 

TaB  O^Maol  Conrys  were  a  branch  of  the  SoulJiem  Hy- 
Nialls,  who  for  centuries  ruled  as  Kings  of  Meath  and 
Monarchs  of  Ireland.  They  were  descended  fimn  Mainci 
fourth  son  of  Nial  of  tiie  Nine  Hostages  and  Prince  of  Teflia, 
in  the  present  Counly  of  Westmeath;  where  they  were 
located  until  the  tenth  century,  when  crossing  the  Shannon, 
they  settled  upon  its  western  bank,  and  firom  that  time  were 
known  as  Connadans.  This  Sept,  which  belonged  to  the 
great  Bardic  Order,  acquired  under  the  patronage  of  the 
O'Conors,  King  of  Connaught,  considerable  possesions  in 
that  Province,  and  became  its  Chief  Bards,  as  well  as 
Seanachies  to  its  Kings;  as  shown  in  die  Annals  of  the 
I^our  Masters,  which,  amongst  other  similar  notices,  record 
that  in  1270,  Tanaidhe  Mor,  son  of  Duinnin,  son  of  Nedhe, 
son  of  Conding  buidhe  O'Maolconry,  was  appointed  Chief 
Historiographer  of  Connaught;  and  Dubhsuilleadi  O'Maol- 
conry  and  Dunkiny  O'Maolconry  were  removed  from  that 
Professorship.  It  also  appears  from  the  same  Annalists  that 
in  1400  *  Gregory,  son  of  Tanaidhe  O'Maolconry ,  the  worthy 


tMSU    •    WDT    T) 


0*0ARA*8  INFANTRY.  541 

intended  Professor  of  Siol   Murray  ^  Boscommon)  was 

accidentally  killed  by  the  cast  of  a  dart  from  the  hand  of 

William    ^ garo^   at  the  tochar  (pass)  of  Dunaiiion   in    a 

mistake^  and  one  hundred  and  twenty-six  cows  were  given 

as  an  eiic  (fine)  for  his  death.'     In  the  compilation  of  the 

Annals  of  the  Four  Masters^  two  of  the  Sept,  Maurice  and 

Fearfeasa  O'Mulconry,  contributed    the   ancient  chronicles 

of  their  tribe,  and  were  active  assistants.    In  virtue  of  the 

hereditary  and  honourable  office  of  Seanachie,  it  was  the 

duty  of  the  Chief  of  this  celebrated  Bardic  dan  to  officiate 

upon  the  Sacred  Hill,  at  the  Inauguration  of  a  new  King  of 

Connaught;  to  present  to  him  the  white  wand  or  sceptre, 

the  emblem  of  Sovereignty;  to  administer  to  him  the  usual 

oath  or  admonition  to  preserve  the  customs  of  the  country; 

and,  finally,  to  record  the  proceedings.    In  the  learned  Dr. 

O'Conor's  Latin  translation  of  the  MSS.  chronicles  of  Ireland 

appears  an  account  of  the  ceremonies,  &c.,  performed  by 

Toma  O'Mulconry  in  the  year  1312,  at  the  Inauguration 

of  Phelim  O'Conor,  King  of  Connaught.     It  is  written  by 

Toma  himself,  and  is  to  be  found  in  the  aforesaid  Irish 

Chronicles,  thus  translated : — 

*'The  O^MaolcoQarys  were  by  herdditary  right  the  Bards  of  the  Sjngs 
of  Connaiight,  without  whose  public  recitation  of  their  genealogy,  in  Tene 
before  the  Aaaemblj  of  the  Kingdom,  it  was  illegal  to  inaugurate  the 
King.  Hence  many  Chief  Poets  of  this  name  are  commemorated  in  the 
Annals  of  Connaught.  This  is  the  privilege  of  Maoloonary: — ^to  give 
into  the  hand  of  the  inaugurated  King  the  Royal  wand,  and,  excepting 
O'Maolconary  who  stands  near  the  King,  and  0*Connachtan  who  guards 
the  sacred  mount,  it  is  not  lawful  for  any  other  of  the  nobles  of  Connaughf 
to  be  in  the  King's  pxesenoe  upon  that  sacred  mount.  The  King's  war 
chaiger  and  dress  are  given  to  the  Vicar  of  Daehon,  whose  office  it  is  to 
go  mounted  on  that  horse  to  the  mount ;  and  an  ounce  of  gold  is  given  to 
0*Connachtan,  and  it  is  his  duty  to  level  the  inequalities  of  the  mount, 
when  an  inauguration  takes  place.** 


542  KINO  jamss'b  ntiSH  abxt  list. 

The  office  of  chief  baid  to  an  Irish  King  is  thus  shown  to 
have  been  a  poet  of  great  honour  and  dignity,  and  many  of  its 
duties  were  of  a  solemn  description:  some  of  the  functions 
of  the  Boyal  Seanadbies  at  the  ceremony  of  inauguration  were 
in  late  times  performed  by  the  clergy  ihemselTes,  as  stated 
in  the  account  giren  of  the  inauguration  of  Hugh  (yNrill, 
titular  King  of  Ulster  and  Eari  bf  Tyrone,  at  the  close  of 
Elizabeth's  reign.  The  inauguration  of  an  Irish  King,  even 
as  late  as  the  reign  of  James  the  ilrst,  was  performed  in  tiie 
open  air,  upon  one  of  the  Sacred  Hills,  or  places  appointed  for 
that  purpose,  and  in  the  presence  of  the  septs  c£  the  proyince 
who  weie  led  thither  by  thor  reepeetive  chiefs  to  witness 
the  ceremony*— »^The  poet  Spencer,  in  his  View  of  the  State 
of  Ireland^  written  in  1597,  thus  describes  one  of  these  solemn 
rites,  of  which  himself  had  been  an  eye-witness.  *'  Whenever 
an  Irish  king  or  chief  is  to  be  inaugurated  on  one  c^  thdr 
hills,  it  is  usual  to  place  him  on  a  particular  stone,  whereen 
is  imprinted  the  form  of  their  first  chieflain's  foot,  and  there 
proflBsr  to  him  an  oatii  to  preserve  the  customs  of  the  country. 
There  was  then  a  wand  delivered  to  him  by  the  proper  officer, 
with  which  in  his  hand,  descending  from  the  stone,  he  tuned 
himself  round,  thrice  forward^  thrice  baekward.'*  In  an 
account  of  the  ceremonies  performed  at  the  initiation  of  the 
OT>onels,  Princes  of  Tyrconnel,  it  is  said  that  in  presenting 
the  new  king  with  the  wand,  which  was  perfectly  white  and 
straight,  the  chief  who  officiated  used  this  form  of  words: — 
"  Beceive,  0  King,  this  auspcious  badge  of  your  authority, 
and  remember  to  imitate  in  your  conduct  the  whiteness  and 
straigfatness  of  this  wand." 

In  1468  another  'Toma  OliCaoIcoitfy,  Chief  Profbssor  of 
%ol-murry,  died  in  his  own  house  at  Us-fiibain,  alter  the 
festival  of  St  Patrick;  he  was  interred  at  Elphin,  and  Erard 


o^gabVs  infantry.  543 

O'Maolcomy  suooeeded  in  the  Chief  ProfeeeorBhip.  This 
Erard,  dying  in  1482,  waa  alao  buried  at  Elphin.  His  suo- 
oeflsor  was  Siodhiaidh  O'Maoleoniy ;'  while  the  Masters  reooid 
at  1519  the  death  of  Maoilin,  son  of  *  Toma  O'MaoIoonxjy 
Chief  Professor  of  Siol-murrjr,  a  man  fall  of  law  and  learning, 
a  msok  wh<»n  the  GeraldinecT  and  English  had  selected  in 
preferenee  to  all  the  Professors  of  Ireland;'  he  died  in  the 
monastery  of  Dery,  in  Teflia.  In  1543  Maurice,  son  <tf 
Patrick  O'Maolconry,  *  a  man  eminent  in  history  and  poetry, 
a  man  of  great  affluenoe,  a  learned  writer,  by  whom  many 
books  had  been  written  and  poems  composed,  by  whom 
schools  were  superintended,  and  who  entertained  many  of 
these  scholars  in  his  own  house,  died  after  having  gained  the 
victory  over  the  world  and  ihe  devil.' 

This  hereditary  and  remarkable  office  became  obsolete  in 
the  O'Maolconry  dan,  after  the  split  of  the  great  O'Connor 
fiunily  into  the  three  kindred  but  rival  houses  of  O'Conor 
Don,  O'Conor  Boe,  and  O'Conor  Sligo,  and  the  divisions  of 
tiie  lands  and  Septs  of  Connanght  between  them ;  when  the 
O'Maolconrys  became  tributaries  to  the  O'Conors  Boe,  Most 
of  this  great  name  had  submitted  to  Elizabeth,  and  remaining 
fidthful  to  her  during  the  fieroe  wars  of  that  period  in  Ireland, 
provoked  the  hostility  of  their  conntrym^i,  the  O'Ndls  and 
O'Donels  of  the  north;  who,  in  revenge  for  this  (as  they 
considered)  apostacy  from  the  common  cause,  made  a  descent 
into  Connanght  in  1597,  and  laid  waste  the  territories  of  the 
O'Conors  with  fire  and  sword.  In  this  foray,  the  O'Conor 
Don,  their  Chief,  was  taken  prisoner;  the  country  of  O'Conor 
Soe,  south  of  Elphin,  was  ravaged  from  Athglissen  to  Sliabk- 
bann;  and  the  Mac  Dennot  of  Moyhxg  was  obliged  to 
declare  himself  0*Donel%  vassal,  and  to  attend  him  when 
required,  with  dghty  foot  and  twenty  horse,  Ac.,  <fi;c.    The 


544  KINO  JAMKS's  nasH  abmt  ust. 

nnmmcJlj  amall  Sept  of  the  O'MiilooiirfB  was  almost 
iiniliilaiAil  on  this  innnd,  and  die  decay  of  the  haaSHj  dates 
from  that  period.  Their  subeeqnent  history  awrnnihitfB  with 
that  of  most  other  Irish  famiKew;  the  cruel  ciTil  wars  that 
desolated  mihappy  Irebnd  throag^oot  the  seyenteenth 
oentury,  prodnciiig  attamders,  finieitiire,  and  esdle,  almost 
eztiogiDshed  them.  Nerertheless  one  or  two  fiunilies  of  a 
Sept,  idiom  Mac  Fiibis,  in  his  cdeteated  poCTi,  styles 
emphaticany,  *  the  (yMaoIoonrys  without  a  Uot,*  amtinned, 
thnnig^  all  Tidssitades  of  fortune  to  retun  some  footing  in 
thor  native  province.  The  OlMaolconry ,  being,  as  before  men* 
turned,  tribntary  to  O'CSonnor  Boe,  the  sopreme  lord  of  the 
Eastern  part  of  Connanght,  was  fi»oed  by  the  Indenture  of 
Composition  then  imposed  upon  native  Chiefe,  to  give  up 
the  customs  theretofore  in  use,  to  abjure  the  Brehon  htw,  to 
hold  thdr  lands  according  to  English  tenure,  and  in  many 
cases  to  surrender  the  distingnishing  prefixes  to  their  names, 
this  &mily  was  consequently  henceforward  written  '  Conry.* 

The  above  Captsin  John  Conry,  his  brother  Lieutenant 
Bryan,  and  a  third  brother,  Patrick,  were  of  this  house,  and 
all  engaged  in  the  service  of  King  James  the  Second;  while 
another  John  Conry,  of  the  elder  brandi  of  the  fimiily,  dsims 
more  especial  notice,  as  well  for  the  sscrifices  he  and  his 
descendants  had  made  to  this  cause,  as  for  die  position  and 
rank  they  have  respectively  held  to  the  present  day.  The 
grandfather  of  this  latter  John  was  Moylin  0*Maolconry ,  who 
died  in  1637,  the  last  indiiddual  recognised  in  native  heraldry 
as  chief  of  his  nation.  His  son  Thoma  entered  and  caused 
to  be  certified  in  the  Herald's  College,  his  father's  lineage 
which  declares  him  to  have  been  the  forty-third  in  descent 
from  the  first-recorded  ancestor  (''Conn,  of  the  hundred 
battles'^  in  that  pedigree.      Thoma,  dying  in  1647,  was 


o'gaba*s  infantry.  545 

succeeded  by  his  son  John,  who,  having  taken  part  and 
suffered  in  his  estate,  in  the  CromweHian  wars,  fled  to  France, 
and  there  married  the  daughter  of  another  emigrant,  of  the 
Fitz-Geralds,  who  had  quitted  Ireland  in  Elizabeth's  reign, 
on  the  destruction  of  the  great  Geraldine  chief,  the  Earl  of 
Desmond.  He  served  throughout  the  wars  of  France,  under 
the  celebrated  Marshal  Turenne,  and  was  killed  at  the  passage 
of  the  Rhine  in  1672,  leaving  two  sons,  Charles  and  Fearfeasa 
Conry,  who  both  returned  to  Ireland.  The  eldest,  Charles, 
who  is  stated  to  have  also  fought  under  Turenne  at  the  early 
age  of  fifteen,  endeavoured,  after  the  restoration  of  Charles 
the  Second,  to  obtain  compensation  for  his  fiunily's  losses  in 
the  Royal  cause,  and  having  obtained  a  small  and  tardy  appro- 
priation of  lands  in  his  native  province,  he  agcdn  returned 
to  France.  On  the  expedition  of  James  the  Second  to  Ire^ 
land,  Charles,  still  clinging  to  the  old  dynasty,  sold  the  estate 
he  had  inherited  through  his  mother  in  France,  and,  adding 
to  the  proceeds  whatever  he  could  raise  in  Ireland,  devoted 
his  fortune  and  his  life  to  the  cause  of  that  Monarch,  whom, 
in  common  with  his  Roman  Catholic  countrymen,  he  alone 
recognised  as  his  lawful  Sovereign.  His  name,  however, 
does  not  appear  in  the  present  Army  List,  but  unimpeachable 
records  establish  the  fact  of  his  bearing  arms  for  King  James 
as  a  volimteer,  of  which  description  of  force  there  was  a 
considerable  body.  Having  joined  James's  army  with 
whotnsoever  of  his  sept  he  could  collect,  he  fought  and  fell 
at  the  Boyne.  Leaving  no  issue,  he  was  succeeded  by  his 
brother  Fearfeasa,  who  was  the  first  member  of  the  family 
that  professed  Protestantism. 

His  son,  another  John,  was  a  celebrated  antiquarian,  and, 
in  his  devotion  to  literature,  pursued  the  hereditary  vocation 
of  his  ancestors;  he  collected  a  very  valuable  library,  in 

VOL.  II.  2  N 


$46  KINO  JAMBS'S  IBI8H  ABMT  LIST. 

addition  to  aaoent  and  cnriooB  MSS.  of  the  0*Mflolcoiiaire 
tribe.  Of  these  MSS.  Dr.  Nicholson,  in  hie  /m&  Hutorical 
Library,  pnbliehed  before  1724,  writes  ^  The  most  yalnable 
eoUectioBS  that  I  haye  met  with  in  any  hand  here  in  DnbHn, 
next  to  that  of  the  Bishop  of  Clogher,  was  coramnnieated  to 
me  by  Mr.  John  Conry,  who  has  gteat  nmnbers  of  our  Histo- 
rioo*Poetical  compoflitionB,  and,  being  a  perfect  master  of  their 
language  and  pro$odia,  knows  how  to  make  the  best  use  of 
them.  Amongst  these  is  the  'AvmdU  of  ike  Four  MoBterg, 
signed  by  the  proper  hands  of  the  compilers,  drawn  up  in  two 
thick  volumes  quarto,  tiie  first  perfect,  the  second  deficient 
firom  A.D.,  1172,  to  1835."  Two  members  of  this  Maolconry 
Sept  had  been  engaged  in  this  great  work,  which,  with  many 
other  of  the  Conry  MSS.  passed  into  the  kte  ill-iated  libnury 
at  Stowe,  having  been  purchased  not  long  after  Dr.  Nichokcm 
had  seen  them,  firom  Mr.  Conry  by  the  dder  Charles  O'Conor 
of  Bealanagar,  Ac.,  whose  grandson  and  namesake  having 
become  LilNrarian  to  the  Duke  of  Buckingham,  brought 
thither  these  and  several  oth^  fiimily  compilations. 

John  Conry  himself  drew  up  a  remarkably  interestiiig 
history  of  his  fiunily  hom  the  eariiest  period  to  the  year 
1750;  it  is  divided  into  chapton,  and  throws  li^t  on  many 
passages  of  the  general  and  family  history  of  Ireland.  His 
only  son,  John  Ponsonby  Conry,  who  in  his  latter  days 
changed  the  spelling  of  his  patronymic  to  Conroy ,  was  educated 
in  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  and,  becoming  a  Member  of  the 
Irish  Bar,  was  the  first  of  this  fitmily  who  adopted  a  peaceful 
profession.  He,  dying  in  1797,  was  succeeded  by  his  son, 
the  late  Sir  John  Conroy,  Knight  of  four  foreign  otders, 
and  vfho  was  created  a  Baronet  for  long  and  fiiidiful  services 
to  her  Majesty  and  their  Royal  Highnesses  the  Duke  and 
Duchess  of  Kent.    The  present  Baronet,  a  gods<»i  of  that 


o'ga&a's  infantbt.  547 

Boyal  Duke,  bears  his  respected  namC)  Sir  Edward  Conroy 
of  Llaabrynniair,  County  <^  Montgomery,  and  he  may 
rely,  as  the  most  satia&ctory  evidence  of  his  ancient 
native  lineage,  cm  the  &ct  of  his  being  the  only  descendant 
of  the  O'Maol-Conrys  still  retaining  a  portion  of  that 
territory,  which  his  ancestors  had  inherited  from  time  imme- 
morial. They  were  also  seised  of  the  adjacent  denomination 
of  Clonahee,  in  the  County  Roscommon,  which  passed  in  the 
seventeenth  century  to  a  junior  branch,  whose  interest  tlierein 
was  recently  sold  under  the  Incumbered  Estates*  Commission. 
A  distinguished  individual  of  this  name  wsa  Florence 
O'Mulcomy,  titular  Archbishop  of  Tuam,  and  founder  of  the 
Irish  Franciscan  Monastery  at  Louvain,  under  the  auspices  of 
Philip  the  Third  of  Spain.  This  Prelate  was  the  author  of 
several  works,  and,  dying  at  Madrid  in  1629,  his  bones  were 
subsequently  removed  to  the  Convent  he  had  founded  at 
Louvain.  He  was  intimately  concerned  in  the  political  move- 
ments of  the  times,  and  was  instrumental  in  aiding  the 
escape  of  the  great  Earls  of  Tyrone  and  Tyrconnell  out  of 
Ireland.  The  fistct  is  announced  in  a  letter,  dated  **  Dublin, 
12th  of  Sep.,  1607,"  from  Sir  John  Davis,  the  celebrated 
Attomey-Greneral  of  Ireland,  to  the  English  Lord  Chancellor 
EUesmere,  in  which  he  says  that  this  prelate  came  over  in 
person  in  a  ship  equipped  and  sent  by  Philip  of  Spain  for  the 
rescue  of  these  Eark. 


CAPTAIN  WILLIAM  AND  LIEUTENANT 

MICHAEL  SHANLEY. 

The  name  of  Shanly,  sometimes  styled  (yShanly^  but  more 
usually  MacShanlyy  is  noticed  in  old  records  as  that  of  a  sept 


548  mnsG  jamk8*s  hush  abmt  ust. 

of  Cimuuight  00  fiur  back  as  the  exAj  part  of  the  tfairteendi 
centiny.  Its  derivatioD  is  firom  the  Celtic  words  Sean- 
Laoeh^  mgmfying  the  "ancient  Chami»oiL^  To  the  Coontj 
of  Ldtrim  it  propeiiy  pertained,  being  imrdy  ever  met  with 
except  in  that  oonnty,  and  along  the  Suumon  ficontier  of 
Longford  and  Bosoommon,  within  which  circait  its  influence 
can  be  tnced  back  (or  npwaids  of  six  hundred  years.  It  was 
occaoonally  to  be  met  with,  too,  as  fiur  down  the  river  as 
Athlone  and  in  the  noghbouring  parts  of  Westmeath: 
where,  indeed,  a  fiunily  of  the  name  had  of  old  reoded  and 
held  possessions  long  antecedent  to  the  Bercdution,  at  which 
period  an  attainder  was  issued  against  **  James  Shanly  of 
Macetown,  in  the  County  of  Westmeath,  Grentleman,'*  for  his 
adherence  to  the  cause  of  King  James.  The  sept  was, 
however,  essentially  of  Lditrim,  and,  before  the  "RngliaK 
"  Pkutalions**  had  broken  down  the  fiflnily  landmarks,  its 
chief  was  known  fix>m  generation  to  generation  under  the 
style  of  "  MacShanly  of  Drumod;"  ranking  among  the  most 
ancient  of  the  "  lords  of  the  soil,'*  in  the  old  kingdom  of 
*^  Breflhey,'*  and  mainly  within  the  bounds  of  what  is  now 
the  Barony  of  MohilL 

The  following  are  some  of  the  lustorical  notioes  of  this 
sept : — ^In  the  year  a.d.  1254  Sitric  MacShanly  and  Shean 
Shaileach  MacShanly  were  taken  prisoners  by  Phelim,  son 
of  Cathal  Croydearg  O^Connor,  on  a  charge  of  their  conspiring 
to  betray  him;  he  caused  the  bust  named  MacShanly  to  be 
deprived  of  his  sight.  In  two  years  afber,  Donagfay  Mac- 
Shanly died  in  the  Abbey  of  Boyle;  and  in  1261  Sitric  was 
slain  at  Athlone  by  Donaghy  MacGeraghty.  Teigue  Mac- 
Shanly died  in  1354,  and  in  1378  MacShanly,  the  chief  of 
his  sept,  was  killed  in  an  engagement  with  the  MflpT^nnfiHi^ 
and  O'Buarcs.    In  1404  the  Four  Masters  commemorate  ihe 


O  GARA  8  INFANTRY.  549 

death  of  Donagh,  son  of  Morough  MacShanly,  '*  a  wealthy 
landed  proprietor  of  Corcaghlan"  (County  Boscommon)  and 
an  officer  of  trust  to  Boderic  O'Connor,  then  still  styled 
'*  £jng  of  Connaught.*'  In  1473  (says  the  same  authority) 
a  great  commotion  broke  out  in  Muinter-Eolis  (County  of 
Leitrim),  and  much  destruction  was  committed  both  by 
burning  and  slaying.  The  MacBaDnalls  made  an  attack  on 
the  baile,  or  town,  of  MacShanly,  burning  it  and  slaying 
Donough,  son  of  Donough  MacShanly;  and  shordy  after- 
wards in  a  general  engagement  of  the  clans  ''  at  the  wood  of 
Carrigallan"  (where  a  vivid  tradition  still  exists  of  a  battle 
having  been  fought),  among  many  men  of  note  who  there  fell 
was  Bryan  MacShanly. 

The  '^plantations*'  of  Longford,  Boscommon,  and  Leitrim, 
in  the  reign  of  King  James  the  First,  made  heavy  inroads 
on  the  hereditary  possessions  of  the  native  Irish  chieftains ; 
and  in  the  latter  county  the  MacShanlys  of  Drumod  suffered 
to  a  great  extent.  In  that  reign  Teigue  MacShanlie  of 
Momin,  in  the  County  of  Longford,  Edward  oge  MacShanlie 
and  Bryan  MacShanlie  (the  latter  described  as  of  '*  Ancurvy" 
King's  County)  '*  sued  out  patents  of  pardon  and  protection.'* 
These  persons,  however,  appear  to  have  been  mere  offshoots 
or  outposts  of  the  main  sept,  which  lay  far  back  from  the  Pale 
in  its  fitstnesses  of  Leitrim.  An  inquisition  taken  in  1657, 
foimd  William  Shanly  (the  Mao  is  dropped  henceforward)  in 
occupation  of  certain  lands  and  tenements  in  Meath,  belonging 
to  the  Earl  of  Boscommon.  He,  it  would  seem,  had  removed 
temporarily  ''  within  the  Pale,"  in  compliance  with  an  edict 
issued  by  Cromwell  in  1651  (from  Dublin)  placing  the  County 
of  Leitrim  under  martial  law,  and  commanding  all  there  who 
desired  *'  protection''  to  remove  with  their  &milies,  cattle,  and 
other  goods  within  the  *^  Parliamentary  quarters." 


TU*  Wimta,  ifter  Ike 
Cfon  of  1 82  MRS  of  Ind 
and  be  WW  die  firtkr 
MlCSAJEI*  S&An.T, 
aodee.    TWfevcreako  two 

fiomlf  terriag  at  Ike  anne  line  ia  lias  anne  eatfB. 
mbA  Mkkael  Skaalj;  wUe  Brywm  Skaalj,  ako  af  DkuMid, 
Irid  aa  Eaaga  a  cwBMiMWB  ia  Coloed  Hcmd 


In  1687  King  Jameaa  Cbrter  to  Jameatown,  Cooatf 
Leitfim,  names  Wilfiam  Sbanlj  (die  Ca|iCMn  i«fiemd  to 
aboire)  Sofeieign  of  fbe  ban»f^;li,  aad  Mirtiarl  one  af  ils 
Borgenea.  William  waa,  ako,  [widi  Alennder  MacDomidl, 
Esq,,  aa  Ui  oolleiigiie]  Miantwy  for  Jamestodrn  in  die 
Parfiament  of  1689. 

In  1691  wete  attainted  Wilfini  SImlj  of  Jaauatown, 
Miefaad  Oianlj  of  Dromod,  Thady  and  ftjan  Sliantf  of 
Feniai^ht,  all  in  die  County  of  Leitran,  '^Gcndemen;"  alao 
Michaci  Shanly  of  Caiginay  Couuly  Ituwmiiuuon,  and  Ji 


Shanl J  of  Maeetown,  Coontj  Westmeadi,  Gentlemen.  From 
die  confiacationa  firflowing  on  tlieee  Attainders  WilKsm 
Shanty,  the  head  of  the  house  of  Dmmodf  aaved,  by  a 
eompfomise  witb  tbe  giantee  of  the  Crown,  some  fiv€  town- 
knds  of  his  ancestral  posseacionB. 

In  1710  Captain  Miehad  l^anly,  having  pravionaly  oome 
orer  to  King  William,  was  placed  on  the  pension  fist  of  tbe 
Army  for  mx  shillings  and  nine  pence  per  day,  and  so 
oontinned  ontil  1739,  when  he  died. 

A  Mortgage  deed,  of  Slst  Febmary,  1709,  shows  diat 
William  Shanly,  aboye  mentaoned,  styled  "  of  Dromod," 
was  then  seised  of  the  lands  of  Feamaght,  CominalNnick, 
BallinafraTe,  Conahanbo  and  Moher,  all  in  the  Barony  c£ 


o'gaba's  infaktby.  551 

MohilL  Sabeequent  to  the  SeyolutioDa  he  had  fixed  his 
reaideaoe  on  the  first  named  property  (Feamaght)  and  was 
saooeeded  in  his  esttttee  by  his  ddest  son  James ;  who  married 
a  daughter  of  Boger  O'Farrell  of  Momm  (M.P.  for  Longford 
in  1689).  Another  son,  Obtain  Francis  Shanly,  msurried 
Frances  Dillon,  aister  of  Bobert,  ninth  Earl  of  Roscommon, 
and  of  that  marriage  some  descendants  were  generally  to  be 
found  in  the  Army  List  down  to  the  days  of  the  PeDinBular 
War.    Their  branch  is  however  believed  to  be  now  extinct. 

James  Shanly  of  Feamaght  had  by  his  said  wife,  Miss 
Farrell  of  Momin,  two  sons,  William  and  Iriel.  The  latter 
was  never  married.  The  former  styled  '*  William  Shanly  of 
Feamaght,"  married,  about  the  year  1734,  Margaret  Jennings 
of  Mohill,  and  by  her  had  four  sons,  William,  James,  Tobias, 
and  Michael.  The  eldest,  known  during  a  long  life,  in  which 
he  played  a  conspicuous  part  among  the  gentry  of  his  county, 
as  ''  William  Shanly  of  Willyfield,''  was  High  Sheriff  of 
Leitrim  in  1785.  His  name  is  also  to  be  found  in  the  list 
of  those  who,  in  1782,  signed  the  Resolution  of  the  Leitrim 
Volunteers,  adopting  the  memorable  ^'  Declaration  of  Dun- 
gannon."  He  died  in  October,  1815,  aged  upwards  of  etghly 
years,  at  his  seat  of  Willyfield,  County  licitrim,  and,  having 
never  married,  he  bequeathed  his  property  among  the  three 
BODS  of  his  youngest  brother,  Michael.  James,  the  seoond 
son  of  William  of  Feamaght,  died  unmarried.  The  third  son, 
Tobias,  married  Prudence,  daughter  of  CainiGroes  Nisbitt  of 
Derrycame;  and  had  one  son,  Tobias,  an  officer  in  the  16th 
Regiment  of  Foot  (1801),  who  died  unmarried,  and  a 
daughter.  Prudence,  married  to  Robert  Graham  of  Garrick- 
on-Shannon. 

Michael,  the  youngest  son  of  William,  entered  the  Army, 
and  was  a  Captain  in  the  18th,  or  '*  Light  Drogheda "  Dra* 


552  Kma  jamss'b  ibish  abxt  ust. 

goons.    Be  married  Jane,  widow  of Constable,  Esq., 

of  ClonmeL  (Her  maiden  name  was  Shaw,  and  by  her  former 
marriage  she  had  one  daughter,  Anna-Belle  Constable,  married 
in  1788  to  Major  Coote  I^bitt  of  Anghry).  By  his  marriage 
with  Mrs.  Constable  Captain  Shanly  had  three  sons,  Robert, 
William,  and  James.  He  retired  from  the  service  in  1787, 
fiom  which  time  to  the  day  of  his  death  he  held  a  mnecore 
Staff  appointment  in  the  Boyal  Irish  Artillery.  He  died  in 
1816  at  his  residence  in  Eodes-street,  Dublin,  and  was  buried 
in  the  Church  of  St.  Michan.  His  eldest  son,  the  B«y. 
Bobert  Shanly,  was  Sector  of  Julianstown,  County  Meath. 
He  married  a  daughter  of  the  Bey.  Dr.  Stewart,  of  the 
County  Cork,  and  left  one  son,  William,  now  of  the  City  of 
London  [unmarried]  and  four  daughters;  Ist,  Jane,  married 
Henry  Parsons,  nephew  of  the  second  Eari  of  Boss;  2nd, 
Anna,  unmarried;  3rd,  Elizabetii,  married  Frederick  Henry 
ViUiers,  of  Somersetshire;  4th,  Sarah,  married  John  Hunger- 
ford  Sealy  of  Barleyfield,  County  Cork.  William,  the  second 
son,  succeeded  under  his  uncle's  will  to  his  place  of  Wlllyfield, 
County  Leitrim,  and  married  a  daughter  of  WiUiam  Parsons 
Percy,  of  Garradise,  in  that  County.  He  left  two  sons, 
William  and  James,  and  six  daughters.  Tbs  eldest  son, 
William,  married  his  cousin,  daughter  of  Major  John  Percy 
of  Garradise,  and  is  now  living  at  Bush-hill,  Bollinamore, 
County  Leitrim,  the  last  representative  of  the  ancient  house 
of  '*  Mac  Shanly  of  Dmmod "  in  that,  its  old  ancestral 
county.  He  has  a  son,  William,  serving  abroad  with  the 
First  Boyal  Begiment  of  Foot. 

James,  the  youngest  son  of  Captain  Michael  Shanly, 
was  a  member  of  the  Irish  bar.  He  resided  some  time  at 
his  place  of  the  "Abbey,"  in  the  Queen's  Counly,  and 
subsequently  at  Norman's  Grove  in  the  County  of  Meath. 


•     o'oaba's  infantbt.  553 

He  married  a  daughter  of  Cliarles  Mulvannj,  of  the  City 
of  Dublin,  merchant,  and,  in  1836,  emigrated  to  Canada 
with  his  family,  where,  at  his  residence  of  Thomdale,  in 
the  county  of  Middlesex,  he  died  in  October,  1857,  in  the 
eightieth  year  of  his  age.  His  family,  consisting  of  six 
sons  and  one  daughter,  settled  permanently  in  the  colony. 
Besides  the  several  members  of  this  family,  enumerated 
in  the  foregoing  memoir,  there  was  another  Michael  Shanly, 
also  of  the  Drumod  connection,  who,  in  the  early  part  of 
the  last  century,  studied  for  the  Soman  Catholic  priesthood 
in  Spain ;  in  one  of  the  universities  of  which  country  he 
was  for  some  years  professor  of  philosophy.  In  1753  he 
was  elected  Prior  of  St.  Saviour's  in  Dublin,  where  he  died 
in  1759.  His  absence  from  a  general  council  of  prelates, 
held  at  Home  in  1756,  and  at  which  Pope  Benedict  XI Y., 
presided,  is  noticed  by  de  Burgo  in  his  Hibemia  Dominicana. 
It  may  also  be  interesting  to  remark  that  the  ancient  iron 
mines  of  Leitrim  were  worked  by  the  Shanlys  of  Dromod. 
It  appears  from  old  i^ecords  that,  previous  to  the  Kevolution, 
the  lands  of  Aughry  and  Drumod-more,  together  with  the 
iron-works,  out-houses,  &c.,  pertaining  thereto,  were  in  pos- 
session of  William  and  Francis  Shanly,  (the  former  identical 
with  him  who  represented  Jamestown  in  1689,)  and  of  which 
they  were  dispossessed  by  the  Nisbitt  family,  one  of  whom, 
James  Nisbett,  leased  those  lands  and  iron-works,  in  1696, 
to  John  Skerrett  ''for  £100  per  annum,  with  5  hundred 
weight  of  good  bar-iron,  and  5  hundred  weight  of  cast-iron." 
From  this  transaction  originated  a  Chancery  and  Appeal 
Case  between  the  Nisbitt  and  Shanly  families,  the  result 
of  which  placed  the  former  in  possession  of  the  property. 


554  KING  JAKES'S  UtI8H  ABHT  LIST. 


CAPTAINS  'GREENE'  AND  WILLIAM 

MULLOY. 

The  O'MqUo J8  or  O'MoIIojb'  claim  desoent  from  Niall  of  the 
Nine  HoetBges,  and  were  anctenllj  Lords  of  Feaicall  in  the 
King's  Comity,  a  district  extending  over  the  present  Baronies 
of  Ballyboy,  Balljcowen,  and  Eglish,  nith  much  a£  those  of 
Geshil  and  Ghurrycastle.  Of  the  early  and  interesting  annals 
of  this  fiunily,  it  can  only  be  here  noticed  that  in  September, 
1189,  Albin  O'MoUoy,  then  Bishop  of  Ferns,  officiated  witii 
the  Archbishops  of  Canterbury  and  Dublin,  and  with  other 
Prelates  and  Nobles,  at  the  coronation  of  the  i«oowned 
Richard  Coenr  de  Lion  in  Westminster  Abbey.*  In  1371 
Roderick  'O'Mohnoy'  chief  of  his  nation  had  a  grant  of  ten 
marics,  for  his  laudable  services  in  the  Bong's  wars,  and  for 
his  bringing  oyer  many  of  the  Irish  to  peace.  In  the  com* 
mencement  of  the  fifteenth  century,  Hugh  O'MuUoy  founded 
the  celebrated  Carmelite  Monastery  of  Eilcormuek,  in  the 
heart  of  Fearcall,  in  whidi  he  was  interred  in  1454.  The 
state  papers  of  the  time  q£  Heniy  the  Eighth  record  numerous 
evidences  of  tiie  struggles  of  the  O'MuUoys  to  uj^old  the 
independence  of  their  sept  and  territory.  At  l^igth,  in  1538, 
a  treaty  was  ccmcluded  by  the  "Loird  Deputy  with  their  Chief, 
by  which  he  (Cahir  OMulloy)  bound  himself  **  to  pay  to  the 
King  all  rents  and  revenues  due  and  accustomed  on  the 
country  of  Fearcall,  and  to  wait  on  the  Deputy  at  any  time 
and  as  often  as  he  wfll,  witii  six  horsemen  and  forty  kerns, 
during  one  day  and  one  night,  having  warning  three  days 
before  the  day  aj^inted."    In  1585,  when,  in  the  language 

*  Haveden,  p.  656, 


0*0AfiA*8  INPANTKT.  555 

of  ihe  Four  Masters,  a  Parliament  was  giren  to  the  people  of 
Irdand  (for  these  assemblies  were  previously  composed  exclu- 
sively of  the  English  or  Anglo-Lrish  Lords  and  proprietors), 
this  sept  was  represented  by  Conal,  the  son  of  Cahir 
O'Mulloy. 

At  a  somewhat  earlier  period,  the  O'Mulloy  was  appointed 
by  the  Crown  hereditary  Bearer  of  the  British  Standard  in 
Ireland,  in  right  of  which  honour  an  official  coat  of  arms  was 
granted,  representing  vert  a  mounted  Ejiight  in  armour,  on  a 
steed  richly  caparisoned  argent ;  and  bearing  in  his  hand  the 
British  standard,  and  on  his  shield  the  family  armorials. 
This  right  was  recognised  in  1595,  when,  on  the  march  of  the 
Lord  Deputy,  Sir  William  Russell,  to  the  North,  the  Royal 
standard  of  England  was  borne  on  the  first  day,  as  within  the 
Pale,  by  O'Mulloy,  and  in  the  next,  after  passing  out  of  the 
Pale,  by  O'Hanlon,  the  hereditary  standard  bearer  of  O'Neill. 
The  privil^e  was  subsequently,  in  1634,  recorded,  and  the 
armorials  exemplified  by  certificate  from  the  Ofiice  of  Arms. 
Early  in  the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  Anthony  O'Mulloy,  a 
younger  son  of  Hugh  O'Midloy,  then  Chief  of  Fearcall, 
migrated  to  the  County  of  Roscommon,  and  having  married 
Honora  Dowell  of  the  Mantua  House,  he  became  the  founder 
of  the  Hughstown  and  Oakport  lines  of  this  family,  fie  died 
in  1603,  when  the  Inquisition  post  mortem  describes  him  by 
the  same  cognomen  as  one  of  the  above  Captains,  *  Greene 
Mulloy.'  Li  1613  a  portion  of  the  FearcaU  inheritance  was 
granted  to  Francis  Blimde,  *  clerk  of  the  Commissioners  for 
defective  titles,'  while  the  estates  of  others  of  the  sept  in  the 
same  county,  who  had  been /attainted'  or  'slain  in  rebellion,' 
were  given  to  Gerald,  Earl  of  Ejldare.  In  1617,  however, 
William  O'Mulloy  had  a  grant  of  the  manor.  Castle,  town 
and  lands  of  Croghan,  the  Castle,  town  and  lands  of  Callowe 


556  KINO  JAM£8*8  IBI8H  ABMT  LIST. 

Otherwise  Canickbegge;  the  Castles  and  lands  of  Canbo, 
Lifldallon  with  a  large  territory  in  the  County  of  Roeoommony 
a  certain  portion  to  be  created  the  manor  of  Croghan,  with 
coorts  leet  and  baron.  In  1631  died  Daniel  'MoUoye'  of 
Derryalney  in  the  £jng*s  County,  leaving  Cosny  his  son  and 
heir  aged  20  and  unmarried;  while  Theobald  Molloy  died  in 
two  years  after  seised  of  Pallice  and  other  lands  there,  Neale 
Molloy  his  son  and  hdr  being  then  aged  35  and  married. 

The  declaration  of  Royal  gratitude,  which  is  incorporated 
in  the  Act  of  Settlement,  acknowledges  the  services  of 
Captain  Charles  O'Mulloy,  Lieutenant  Edmund  O'Mulloy, 
Lieutenant-Colonel  Charles  MuUoy,  Captain  Art  son  of 
Turlough  Mulloy,  Lieutenant  John  Molloy,  Lieutenant  John 
son  of  Art  Molloy,  Lieutenant  Edward  Molloy,  Ensign 
Fenagh  Molloy,  Captain  Turlough  Molloy  of  Ballyboy, 
King*s  County,  and  Terence  Molloy  of  Gortachuttery  in  said 
coimty.  In  1677  Charles  ^Molloy'  had  a  grant  of  912  acres 
in  Mayo,  subject  to  a  mortgage;  as  had  Hugh  'Mulloy^  in 
1678  of  2,212  in  Gralway,  subject  to  two  mortgages.  Beddes 
the  above  two  Captains,  there  appear  upon  this  List  Robert 
Molloy,  a  Quarter-Master  in  Lord  Grahno/s  Horse ;  James, 
a  Lieutenant  in  the  King's  In&ntry;  John,  an  Ensign  in 
Colonel  Henry  Dillon's  ;  and  Hugh  Molloy,  in  Colonel 
Heward  Ozburgh's.  Edward  O'Mulloy,  of  the  above  men- 
tioned Hughstown  line,  was  appointed  one  of  the  Burgesses 
in  King  James's  charter  to  Boyle ;  and  he,  marrying  Mary, 
daughter  of  the  O'Connor  Don,  had  by  her  a  son,  the  above 
Captain  'Greene'  Mulloy.  Connor  O'Mulloy,  the  elder 
brother  of  the  above  Edward,  was  the  lineal  ancestor  of  the 
families  of  Hughstown  and  Oakport.*     He  had  two  sons, 


*  For  a  full  memoir  of  this  fiunily,  see  D^ Alton's  Annals  of  Boyle,  toL  1, 
p.  97,  &c 


0'6ARA*8  INFANTBT.  557 

Theobald  and  William  O'Mulloy,  who,  as  frequently  occurred 
in  that  distracted  period,  espoused  different  lines  of  policy. 
Theobald  took  part  with  King  William,  was  a  Captun  of  his 
Dragoons  at  the  Battle  of  the  Boyne,  and,  according  to  the 
family  tradition,  when  that  King's  horse  was  shot  under  him, 
Theobald  presented  his  own  charger  to  His  Majesty.  He 
lived  to  a  great  age,  and,  dying  in  1734,  was  buried  at 
Ardcame  near  Boyle.  His  son  Charles,  being  in  Athlone 
when  some  of  King  James's  officers  were  raising  recruits 
there,  was  enlisted  into  that  service,  and  was  actually  taken 
prisoner  at  the  Boyne,  by  the  B>egiment  of  which  his  father 
was  Captain;  he  was  then  but  seventeen,  and  in  consideration 
of  the  father's  services  was  pardoned,  afterwards  served  for 
William,  and  at  the  siege  of  Sligo  was  wounded  in  the  leg.* 
William,  the  second  son  of  Connor  O'Mulloy,  was  the  above 
Captain ;  who,  marrying  Alison,  daughter  of  Sir  Oliver 
Tuite  of  Sonna,  County  of  Westmeath,  left  issue  by  her. 
He  was  attainted  in  1691,  with  four  others  of  the  sept, 
described  as  located  about  their  ancient  territory,  in  King's 
and  Queen's  County  and  in  the  County  of  Kilkenny;  as 
affecting  which  various  claims  were  made  at  Chichester 
House,  but  they  were  all  dismist.  An  Inquisition,  taken  in 
the  tenth  year  of  the  reign  of  King  William  the  Third,  finds 
that  Charles  MoUoy  senior,  of  Balekin  in  the  Eong's  Coimty, 
had  been  sdsed  of  various  lands  there  in  the  time  of  Charles 
the  Second ;  that  he  had  two  sons.  Art  the  eldest  and  Charles 
second;  and  that  Art  had  a  daughter  Marian,  who,  marrying 
Conly  Geoghegan,  had  issue  by  him  three  sons,  Bosse,  Charles 
and  Conly. 

^  Burke's  Landed  Gentry y  p.  807« 


558  KINa  JAMBS'S  IBI8H  ABMY  LIST. 


CAPTAIN  LOUGHLIN  NATJGHTON. 

The  O'Naughtons  were  an  ancient  Irish  Sept  of  the  County 
of  Ghdwaj,  located  about  the  country  now  comprised  in  the 
Baronies  of  Leitrim  and  Longford.  In  1587  John  C^Naughton 
died  seised,  in  right  of  Chief,  of  the  territory  of  the  ^pt, 
containing  as  shewn  on  Inquisitions,  thirty  quarters  of 
land;  Connor  O'Naughton  was  his  son  and  heir.  In  1604 
Robert  O^Naughton,  described  as  of  Mynure  in  the  Faes,  alias 
O'Naughton's  country,  in  Boscommon,  haying  been  killed  in 
the  wars,  the  wardship  of  his  son  and  heir,  John,  was  com- 
mitted to  his  widowed  mother,  Jane  O'Naughton.    Besides 

the  three  Naughtons  in  this  Regiment, Naughton  was  a 

Major  in  Colonel  Parker's  Horse,  Thady  Naughton  a  Lieu- 
tenant in  Colonel  Henry  DiUon's  Infantry,  and  Thomas  Mac 
Naghton  a  Captain  in  Colonel  Cormuck  O'Neill's.  The  latter, 
however,  was  of  the  Scottish  Plantation  in  Ulster,  and  not  of 
the  native  sept.  Edmund  Henry  Naughton  is  the  present 
possessor  of  an  estate  within  the  old  family  district  of  the 
Faes,  and  is  the  great  grandson  of  a  Loughlin  Naughton, 
who,  dying  in  1770  seised  of  the  same  property,  was,  it  may 
be  well  presumed,  the  grandson  of  the  above  Captain. 


CAPTAIN  BRYAN  MAC  GOWRAN. 

Ortblixts's  Map  locates  this  Sept  between  Leitrim  and 
Cavan;  they  were  more  especially  indigenous  in  the  Barony 
of  Tullaghaw  in  the  latter  counly,  and  the  Four  Masters 


O'GABA'S  HfFANTBY.  559 

record  the  vooceaoYe  chiefs  of  the  Sept.  In  1593  the 
Maguires  perpetrated  a  predatory  incurribn  oyer  Cayax^  in 
which  Dr.  Edward  Mac  Grawran,  the  titular  primate  of 
Armagh,  was  accidentally  killed;  he  being  then  protected  by 
Magcdre  from  the  conseqaenceB  of  proacriptionB  and  o£  a 
reward  offered  for  hb  apprehension.  At  the  time  of  the 
Plantation  of  Ulster,  several  of  the  Mac  Gowrans  were 
necessitated,  for  thar  protection,  to  sue  out  pardons  from  the 
Crown,  and,  in  the  immediately  succeeding  years,  grants  were 
made  and  manors  created  out  of  their  lordship  of  TuUaghaw; 
as  the  manor  of  Calva  to  Hugh  Culme,  other  lands  to  Sir 
George  and  Richard  Graeme ;  and,  in  1614,  all  the  mountains 
of  Quilca,  Slieve-an-erin,  £c.,  to  John  Sandford.  Phelimy 
Magowran,  however,  and  others  of  the  Sept  obtained  from 
the  King  some  small  reserved  portions  within  TuUaghaw,  to 
hold  on  the  conditions  of  the  Plantationi  Of  one  of  these 
grants  Bryan  Qge  Magauran  died  seised,  in  1631,  leaving 
Edmund  his  son  and  hear,  then  fifteen  years  of  age,  who, 
according  to  the  courtesy  of  succession  in  Christian  names, 
may  have  been  the  fiither  of  this  Captain.  Even  these 
scanty  concessions  were,  however,  early  in  the  reign  of  Charles 
the  First,  subjected  to  searching  and  hostile  inquisitions. 
This  fiimily,  nevertheless,  contributed  an  officer  to  King 
Jameses  cause,  and  are  still,  though  in  humble  ciroumstances, 
a  respected  race  within  their  old  Barony.  In  truth,  their 
Barony  is  popularly  known  as  *'  the  Kingdom  of  Glan,'  and 
is  to  this  day  so  isolated,  that  it  is  said  "  no  public  road 
leads  into  it,  and  only  one  ^fficult  pass,  in  some  places  a 
track  way  is  seen  over  it.  It  is  about  sixteen  miles  in 
length  by  seven  and  a-half  in  breadth,  and  is  densely  inhabited 
by  a  {Ncimitive  race  of  Mac  Gowrans,  who  intermarry  with 
each  other,  and  observe  scmie  peculiar  customs,  as  an  especial 


560  KING  JAJCB8*8  IBI8H  AJEtMY  LIST. 

election  of  their  own  King  and  Queen  firom  the  tribe,  to 
whom  they  volunteer  implicit  obedience.**  A  bard  of  this 
fiimily,  commemorated  bj  Hardiman  in  his  Irish  Minstrelsy^ 
composed,  amongst  other  poems,  one  entitled  '  the  Bevehy 
of  O'Bourke,*  which  has  been  the  subject  of  Dean  Sinft's 
well-known  parody,  ORcurke's  noble  fare  shaU  ne'er  be 
forgot/  ^e. 

Another  Mac  Gauran  ranked  a  Ci^tain  in  Fitgames^s 
Infitntrj. 


CAPTAIN  OWEN  GALLAGHER. 

The  native  Topographers  locate  the  O^Gallaghers  in  the 
Baronies  of  Tjrrhugh  and  Baphoe,  County  of  Denial,  where 
they  had  casties  at  Lifford  and  Ballyshannon.  Li  1397  an 
O'GaUagher  was  Bishop  of  Clonmacnoise,  Laurence  O'Gal- 
lagher  was  Bishop  of  Baphoe  in  1419,  as  was  Redmond 
Ghdlagher  of  Eillala  in  1419.  The  Sept  is  characterized  in 
the  history  of  their  country  as  commandeis  of  O'Donnell's 
cavalry,  and  their  achievements  in  that  service  are  subjects  of 
many  annals.  -  At  the  siege  of  Sligo  by  O'Donnell  in  1495, 
William,  son  of  the  O'Gallagher,  u  «.,  of  Edmund,  son  of 
Donogh,  son  of  Laughlin,  and  Owen^  son  of  Connac  O'Gral- 
lagher,  were  amongst  those  killed  by  the  guards  of  the  castle. 
In  two  years  after,  in  a  battie  fought  between  the  O'Neils  and 
O'Donnells,  three  of  the  leaders  under  O'Donnell,  named 
O'Gallagher,  were  slain  at  Ballysadare.  In  Perrot's  Parlia- 
ment of  1585  appeared  as  Representative  of  this  Sept  '  the 
0*Gallagher,  i. «.,  John,  son  of  Tuathal,  son  of  John,  son  of 
Roderic,  son  of  Hugh.'    The  Masters  record  the  death,  in 


o'gaba's  infantry.  561 

1595,  of  this  John,  as  '  a  man  of  great  fame  and  renown  among 
the  English  at  that  time.'  When,  in  six  years  after, 
O'Donnell  went  southward  to  the  Monster  war,  he  en- 
trusted the  custody  of  his  Castle  of  Ballytnote  to  the 
O'Gallagher,  t.  «.,  Owen,  son  of  the  above  John.  The  Act  of 
1612,  for  the  Attainder  of  Hugh  O'Neill,  late  Earl  of  Tyrone, 
Kory  O'Donnell,  late  Earl  of  Tyrconnel,  and  their  adherents, 
includes  in  the  severity  of  its  enactments  Hugh  more  Donnell 
O' '  Ghdkchor,'  and  Turlogh  carrach  O'Grallacher,  both 
described  as  *  late  of  Donegal/  In  1666  Thomas  Grallagher 
passed  patent  for  502  acres  in  Kerry,  as  did  PheUm  Grallagher, 
in  the  following  year,  for  1,042  in  Mayo.  The  only  one  of 
the  name  on  the  Outlawries  of  1691,  is  Ferderoagh  O'Gkl- 
lagher  of  Boylagh,  County  of  Donegal ;  while  Harris,  the 
Williamite  historian  of  this  war,  writing  of  the  capitula- 
tion of  Limerick,  says,  ^^  the  numerous  Sept  of  O'Grallagher 
in  the  County  of  Mayo  submitted  to  Colonel  James  Wynne, 
and  offered  to  receive  pay  under  him  in  the  fixmy." 


ENSIGN  PAUL  DUIGNANr 

The  O'Dnigenans  were  located  at  Eilronan,  in  the  northern 
division  of  the  County  of  Roscommon,  and  are  especially 
celebrated  in  the  native  annals  for  their  devotion  to  the 
history  and  literature  of  their  country,  Manus  O'Duigenan 
was,  at  the  close  of  the  fourteenth  century,  engaged  in  draw- 
ing up  a  considerable  portion  of  the  Book  of  BaUymote; 
subsequentiy  to  which  a  chronicle  vras  compiled  tiiat,  deriving 
its  titie  from  the  locality  of  this  family,  was  called  the  Booh 
of  Kilronan,  or  sometimes  the  Book  of  the  O^Duigenans;  and 

VOL.  II.  2  o 


562  KING  /akbs'b  ibish  abmt  list. 

it  was  one  of  the  chronicles  from  which  the  Four  Masters,  one 
of  whom  was  Cucorghrighe  O'Duigenan,  collected  their  great 
work  in  1632.  In  1339  the  Church  of  Eilronan  was  begun 
bj  Ferral  Muinaoh  O'Duigenan ;  it  stood  over  Lough  Meelagh, 
and  has  a  deep  national  interest,  as  in  a  vault,  dose  to  the 
ruins,  erected  for  the  femily  of  Mao  Denaott  Boe,  were 
deposited  the  last  earthly  reuuuns  of  the  once  celebrated 
Carolan.— -<«*The  Four  Masters  have,  as  n^ight  be  expected, 
numerous  obits  of  O'Duigenaus,  each  of  whom  is  oonmiemo- 
rated  as  a  lei^med  historian  or  philosopher.  lu  1495  it  is 
e8pe<uall7  recorded  that  the  O'Duigenan,  t» «.,  Dufiy,  son  of 
Malachy,  son  of  Matthew  glaSj  Chief  professoir  to  Muinter. 
MaolruaQ  (the  Sept  of  M^Dermot),  a  lean^ed  historian,  a  man 
who  kept  an  open  house  of  general  hospitality,  the  most 
wealthy  i9  Ireland  in  cattle  aiid  herds,  died  in  his  own  house 
at  ^ilronai^  after  a  long  and  well  spent  life.  In  1588  Du£^ 
O'Duigenai^  wrote  a  History  of  the  Sept  of  the  O^Donnells. 

The  Surgeon  of  Colonel  Heiuy  Dillou's  Infimtry  was  a 
*  Ddgpan/ 


*■  ji" 


ENSIGN  THOMAS  WALGRAVE. 

It  seems  probable  that  this  officer  was  a  relative  of  Sir  Henry 
Waldegrave  of  Chewton  in  Somersetshire,  who  married  a 
daughter  of  James  the  Second,  by  Arabella  Churchill,  sister 
of  the  great  Duke  of  Marlborough,  and  who  was  raised  to 
the  peerage  in  1685,  by  the  title  of  Baron  Waldegrave. 
His  lordship  removed  to  France  on  the  Revolution,  and 
died  there  in  1689.  In  thirty  years  after  his  son  was 
elevated  to  the  Viscounty  of  Chewton  and  Earldom  of  Wal- 


o'oaba's  ikfantrt.  563 

degmve,  honoora  whioh  are  still  lineally  inherited,  tt  ia 
significant  of  Ensign  Waldegrave  having  been  an  ofishoot 
or  junior  member  of  an  English  house,  and  not  connected 
bj  property  with  Ireland,  that  his  Dame  does  not  appear 
upon  the  attainders  of  the  day;  while  it  may  be  here  noticed 
that  in  March,  1797)  the  Irish  Etouse  of  Conunons  passed 
a  unanimous  vote  of  thanks  to  yice->Adn4ral  Waldegrave, 
Viee- Admiral  Thon^son,  Bear- Admiral  Farmer,  Commodore 
Nelson,  and  to  the  several  captains  aqd  officers  of  the  fleet 
under  Sir  John  Jervis,  for  their  gallant  conduct  on  the 
occasion,  of  his  victory  over  the  Spaniards  off  Cape  Lagos  in 
the  preceding  February.  This  Vioe-Admiral  waa,  m  1800, 
created  Baron  Badstock.  The  present  venerable  Earl  of 
Waldegrave  is  his  nephew. 


564 


WHO  JAMXB'a  JBSSa  ABMT  LIST. 


EEGIMENTS  OF  INFANTEY. 


coijoimL  JOHN  grace's. 


CapCam$. 

llieColoDd.  BidiaidGnoe. 

fidberiGnce,  <»- --• 

lienteiuuit^CaloiML 

Cbftilet  Moore,  .,.-.... 

Mi^or« 

Richtid  Gnoe.  

Haik  Baggott  Fiaacis  McDonnell. 

Bobert  Walflh.  Walter  *  Daton.* 

Bobot  Gmoe.  Bichaid  Grace. 

Edward  CaddoDf  fThomaa  PeanoQ. 

Gitjnad.  I  James  Caddon. 

Patrick  Browne.  John  D'Alton. 


Matthew  Hoiuc. 
Robert  Grace 


Patrick  Coqnor. 
▲damWaldi. 
Hicholaa  Dale, 


Valei^Une  ^olger. 


Ttuymas  Gnibeinqr. 
John  Knansboroiigh. 
Tl^dy  O'BryiMi* 


OHACS'S  INFAKTBT.  565 


COLONEL  JOIiN  GRACE. 

'  The  old  and  emment  family  tf  Grace,*  says  Sir  Bernard 
Burke,  'ranks  among  the  earliest  of  the  Anglo-Norman 
settlers  in  Lrelaiid.  Under  the  banner  of  Bichard  de  Clare, 
the  well-known  Strongbow,  Baymond  Fitz-Walter,  sumamed 
le  Gros,  landed  in  that  kingdom,  became  subsequently 
(A.D.  1176)  its  Viceroy,  and,  marrying  Basilia  de  Clare, 
StrongboVs  sbter,  acquired  the  extensive  district  in  the 
County  Kilkenhy,  still  denominated  the  oantlred  of  Grace's 
country;'  To  this  gallant  soldier  the  Graces  trace  their 
lineage,  and  now,  at  nearly  the  close  of  seten  centuries,  it 
is  but  justice  to  observe*  that  the  bright  fame  of  the  illus- 
trious founder  has  [Massed  untarnished  through  the  long  line 
of  his  descendants. 

In  1345,  during  the  existence  of  a  prohibition  of  exporta- 
tion of  com  from  Lreland  to  foreign  parts,  Francis  *  Grache ' 
of  Bourdeaux  had  an  exemption  from  the  king  to  carry 
over  com  from  Dublin,  he  giving  security  that  he  would 
only  transport  same  to  the  king's  friends  and  lieges,  and 
not  to  rebels  or  his  enemies.  In  1356  William  'Graces' 
was  constituted  a  guardian  of  the  peace  in  the  county  of 
Kilkenny.  In  1383  John  and  Adamar  Grace  Were  appointed 
similar  guardians  there.  In  four  years  after,  avowedly  with 
the  object  of  promoting  peace  in  that  county,  the  king 
granted  permission  to  Almaric  Grace,  Baron  of  Grace^that 
he  might  marry  Tibina,  daughter  of  O'Magher,  a  captain 
of  the  Irish  natives.  In  1410,  John  Grace  of  TuUaroan 
was  appointed  guardian  in  Kilkenny;  and  in  1421  was  made 
one  of  the  justices  in  eyre  for  that  county,  as  well  as  for 
those  of  Tipperary,  Waterford,  and  Wexford.     In  the  fol- 


566  KIKQ  JAMES'S  HUSH  ▲BMT  LIST. 

lowing  year  Anselm  '  Gh»as'  was  appointed  sheriff  of  the 
county  of  Kilkenny.  In  1425  Johni  ^  Baron  of  Graas,'  was 
one  of  those  commisrioned  on  the  Peace  with  authority  to 
array  in  that  county.  ^  Oliver  Gmoe,  Knight,  of  Bally- 
linch  and  Degan  Castle,  was  member  of  Pazliament  for 
Tipperary  in  1559.  The  pardons  granted  by  patent  at  the 
commencement  of  the  reign  of  James  the  First  to  Ghiaoes 
in  Kilkenny^  name  Leonard  Grace  of  Baihsuageden,  Biofaard, 
son  of  Robert  Grace  of  Ballycaneyore»  Walter  of  Ballynec- 
fonC)  Ellen,  daughter  of  Edmond,  wife  of  Walter  Grace; 
James,  son  of  Ednumd,  John,  son  of  Philip  of  Bretaogh, 
William  of  same  place,  James  of  Ballyhudihie ;  and  John, 
son  of  Walter  of  Knockin.  In  1606,  however,  among  parcda 
here  granted  to  Sir  William  Taaffe,  were  denominations 
described  as  late  of  the  estates  of  Peter  Gbnace  of  Brenshagh, 
attainted,  and  about  the  same  time  Edward  Southworthe 
had  a  grant  of  Castle-corker,  Ac.,  theretofore  held  by  G-erald 
Grace. 

Gerald  Grace,  the  great  grandson  of  the  above-mentioned 
Sir  Oliver  of  Ballylmch,  fell  at  the  batde  of  Kilrush  in 
1642,  fighting  for  the  cause  of  Boyalty,  an  act  construed 
into  rebellion  by  the  usurping  powers,  to  whom  17,000  acres 
became  forfeited  on  his  attainder.  The  other  members  of 
this  name,  then  outlawed,  were  Bobert  Grace,  Baron  of 
Courtown,  but  styled  in  his  outlawries  of  CamuUy,  and 
John  Grace  of  Jigginstown  in  the  County  of  Kildare; 
Gerald  Grace,  styled  of  Bathbnm,  with  Bedmond  of  Knock- 
bane  in  Wicklow.  Bichard,  a  younger  son  of  this  Bobert 
Grace,  had  gone  over  at  the  commencement  of  the  reign  of 
Charles  the  First  to  England,  where  he  too  distinguished 
himself  in  the  cause  of  that  unfortunate  monarch  up  to  the 
surrender  of  Oxford  in  1646,  when  he  returned  to  Ireland 


grace's  infantbt.  567 

and  laised,  by  his  wealth  and  influence,  a  force  of  about 
3,000  men ;  at  the  head  of  which  he,  for  some  years,  made 
himself  so  formidable  to  the  Parliament  and  to  Cromwell, 
that  they  offered  £500  for  his  head,  but  afterwards  admitted 
him  to  an  honourable  capitulation,  by  the  terms  of  which  he 
was  allowed  to  embark  for  the  continent  with  a  regiment 
of  1,200  men,  and  it  was  even  stipulated  that  he  should  be 
supplied  with  money  and  every  other  necessary  for  the 
voyage.  He  had  the  glory  of  being  the  last  who  held  out 
for  the  Bang  in  Ireland,  and  subsequently,  with  his  brave 
companions  signalized  himself  in  the  French  and  Spanish 
services,  with  loyalty  and  attachment  to  the  exiled  Royal 
family.  He  was  denounced  by  Cromwell's  ordinance,  and 
his  estates  were  granted  to  Captain  John  Francke.  On  the 
Bestoration,  however,  he  was  thanked  in  the  Act  of  Settle- 
ment, made  Chamberlain  to  the  Duke  of  York,  (afterwards 
James  the  Second,)  was  restored  to  his  estates  in  the  King's 
County,  and  had  also  a  grant  of  the  reversion  of  some 
valuable  lands  in  the  County  of  Eildare,  while  King  James 
increased  his  income  by  a  pension  of  £300  per  <mnum  in 
1685.  After  that  monarch's  flight  from  Ireland  Colonel 
Bichard  Grace  was  appointed  Governor  of  Athlone,  in  whidb 
trust  he  displayed  zeal  and  activity,  equally  ^worthy  of  his 
youthful  achievements  at  hpme  and  on  the  Continent,  and 
astonishing  in  such  an  old  man. — ^-'  When  William's  com- 
mander, Lieutenant-General  Douglas,  sent  a  drummer  to 
summon  the  fortress,  the  Colonel,  firing  a  pistol  in  the 
presence  of  the  messenger,  replied,  *  These  are  my  terms, 
these  only  will  I  give  or  receive,  and  when  my  provisions 

are  consumed,  I  will  defend  till  I  eat  my  boots  I' In  the 

account  of  the  final  surprise  of  this  town  by  De  Ginkell 
in  the  following  year,  it  is  mentioned  in  the  LQnd(m  Gazette 


568  KiKO  James's  ibish  abmy  list. 

of  the  day,  that  the  body  of  the  venerable  warrior,  by  whom 
the  pkoe  had  been  in  the  previous  year  so  sacoessfiilly 
defended,  was  found  among  the  dead,  where  he  had  hdn 
from  the  day  before. 

To  return  to  Gerald  Grace,  who  fell  at  Kilrush  in  1642, 
he  married  a  daughter,  who  was  eventually  co-heiress  of  Lord 
Dunboyn,  and  had  by  her  Oliver  his  heir  and  other  issue. 
This  son  was  Chief  Bemembrancer  in  the  Irish  Exchequer, 
and  settled  at  Shanganagh  in  the  ancient  Grace  territory; 
to  this  pkce  he  gave  the  name  of  Gracefield,  which  his  eldest 
souj  Michael,  inherited  as  co-heir  with  his  nephew  Bobert 
Grace  of  CourtStown.  Michael's  son  and  Successor  was  Oliver, 
who  married  Mary  daughter  and  heiress  of  John  Dowell  of 
Mantua  House,  County  Boscommon.  '  He  was  educated  at 
Douay  College,  and  served  several  years  in  the  Austrian 
army.  While  in  the  service  he  had  the  distinction  of  being 
chosen  one  of  the  guard  to  attend  Marie- Antoinette  into 
France,-  on  her  marriage  with  Louis  the  Sixteenth,  and  the 
still  higher  honour  of  being  the  sentinel  nightly  placed  at  her 
Majesty's  door  during  the  journey/'*  He  married  a  daughter 
and  co-heiress  of  Patrick  Hussey,  Esq.,  of  Ardmore  in  Kerry, 
and  the  son  of  that  marriage  is  the  present  Oliver-Dowell- 
John  Grace,  a  Deputy  Lieutenant  of  Boscommon  and  for 
several  years  one  of  its  representatives  in  Parliament. 

The  above  Colonel  John  Grace  was  the  near  kinsman  of 
Colonel  Bichard,  and  the  last  Palatine  Baron  of  Courtstown. 
He  had  been  in  his  youth  restored  to  his  estates  in  Kilkenny 
and  Tipperary,  was  Sheriff  of  the  former  county  in  1687,  and 
one  of  its  representatives  in  the  Parliament  of  1689.  On  the 
eve  of  the  Bevolution  he  raised  and  equipped  this  Begiment, 

*  BurkeU  Landed  Gentry. 


■T 


gbace's  jnfantby.  569 

and  also  a  troop  of  horse  at  his  own  expense  for  King  James, 
whom  he  farther  assisted  with  money  and  plate.*  In  addition 
to  this  Kegiment  was  set  down  on  the  muster  an  ''  Indepen- 
dent Company  or  Troop  styled  Old  Colonel  Grace's  (evidently 
Colonel  Bichard's)  of  sixty  men.^f  Besides  these  two 
Colonels  and  the  gather  '  Graces'  in  this  Kegiment,  there  are 
on  the  Army  List  Oliver  Grace,  a  Captain  in  Colonel  Simon 
Luttrell's  Dragoons,  (probably  identical  with  the  Major 
Grace,  who  was  taken  prisoner  at  Aughrim) ;  John  Grace,  a 
Lieutenant  in  the  Song's  In&ntry;  and  in  Fitz-James's, 
Walter  Grace  was  a  Lieutenant  and  another  Oliver  Grace 
an  Ensign.  Captain. Oliver  was  one  of  the  representatives  of 
Ballinakill  in  the  Parliament  of  1689.  The  attainders  of 
1691  include  the  above  Colonel  John  Grace  of  Courtstown 
(who  was  seised  of  considerable  estates  in  Gowran  and  Cran- 
nagh.  County  of  Kilkenny),  the  aforesaid  Bichard,  described 
as  also  of  Courtstown,  and  four  other  Graces.  At  the  Court 
in  Chichester  House,  claims  were  preferred  as  attaching  to 
the  estates  of  Bichard,  John,  and  Bobert  Grace  in  the  King's 
Coimty  and  County  of  Kilkenny.  In  1703  Bichard  Grace's 
estate  in  Clare  was  sold  to  John  Ivers  of  Mount  Ivers  in  said 
county,  while  a  portion  of  his  Ealkenny  estates  was  purchased 
by  the  Hollow  Swords'  Blades  Company,  as  were  likewise 
portions  of  the  Kilkenny  estates  of  John,  Bobert,  and  Oliver 
Grace,  and  part  of  the  Song's  County  estates  of  John  and 
Bichard.  Other  parcels  of  .the  King's  County  estates  of  the 
latter,  comprising  the  castle  of  Moyally,  were  bought  by 
Nathaniel  Boyse ;  while  Colonel  George  Carpenter  of  Nether- 
court  purchased  KiUanny,  County  of  Kilkenny,  the  estate  of 
John  Grace. 

*  Oreen  Book^  p.  857. 
t  Singer's  Correspondence  of  Lord  Clarendon^  v.  2,  pp.  513-14. 


570  KINO  JAMBS'S  IRISH  ABUT  LIST. 


CAPTAIN  MARK  BAGGOTT. 

This  family,  early  after  the  invuffion,  passed  into  Ireland. 
In  1280  Robert  *  Bagod'  obtained  a  grant  o#the  manor  of  the 
Rath  near  Dublin,  ni^th  the  Water-course  of  the  Dodder  and 
the  common  of  woods,  &c.  A  castle  was  soon  after  erected 
there,  and  it  was  hence  to  the  present  day  distinguished  by 
the  name  of  Baggot-rath.  In  1802  he  Was  summoned  to  aid 
King  Edward  in  the  Scottish  war,  and  in  1309  et  seq.  was 
one  of  the  Justices  of  the  Bench*  In  the  following  year  he 
was  deputed  by  the  Crown  to  interfere  for  the  prevention  of 
exbting  hostilities  in  Thomond,  between  Richard  de  Clare 
and  Donat  O'Brien,  '  which  latter  styles  himself  Prince  of 
the  Irish  of  Thomond/  Henry  '  Bagod'  was  about  the  same 
time  a  Baron  of  the  Exchequer^  Robert  Bagod^  the  grantee 
of  the  Rath,  died  about  the  year  1338,  leaving  William  his 
heir,  who  died  in  1358,  when  the  King  granted  the  custody 
of  his  estates  to  Ismania  his  widow,  to  hold  during  the 
minority  of  their  son  and  heir,  William,  who  was  in  1399, 
with  Henry  Bagot,  elected  by  the  Commonalty  of  Louth  to 
be  a  Commissioner  for  assesong  a  state  subsidy  on  the 
Barony  of  Ferrard  in  that  County.  In  1404  Richard  Bagot 
had  license  to  absent  himself  from  Ireland  for  three  years  to 
study  in  England.  The  name  subsequently  extended  over 
the  Pale,  as  in  EUdare,  Meath,  Carlow,  and  even  to  Limerick. 
In  the  latter  county  Edmund  Baggott  and  Donogh  O'Ghrady 
had  in  1610  a  grant  of  the  castle,  town,  and  lands  of  Baggots- 
town,  with  a  water-mill  and  weir;  the  Castle,  bawn  and  town 
of  Balljmaskooley  and  Rawliston,  with  various  other  lands 
and  interests. 


OBACE'S   INFAITTBT.  571 

The  only  attainder  of  the  family  in  1642  is  that  of  Thomas 
Bagot  of  Castlemartin,  in  Kildare,  while  Maurice  Baggot  of 
Baggotstown  aforesaid,  was  one  of  those  especially  excepted 
from  pardon  or  mercy  in  the  articles  for  the  capitulation  of 
Limerick  to  Ireton. 

The  above  Captain  Mark  was  son  of  a  Mr.  John  Bagot,  by 
Edith  his  ¥nfe,  who  died  in  1684,  having  had  several  children 
by  him  (as  shown  by  a  funeral  entry  in  Bermingham  Tower). 
Of  her  issue,  only  this  Mark  Bagot  survived.  He  had  been 
Sergeant  at  arms,  and  sat  as  one  of  the  representatives  of  the 
Borough  of  Carlow  in  the  Parliament  of  1689^  (The  respected 
John  James  Bagot  of  Castle  Bagot,  D.L.,  a  venerable  and  ttue 
lover  of  his  country,  lately  deceased^  appears  to  have  derived 
his  lineage  from  this  Mark).  John  Baggot  of  Baggotstown, 
senior,  was  one  of  those  who  represented  CharleviUe  in  that 
Parliament,  as  did  John  Baggot,  junior,  Doneraile*  On  the 
List  of  the  Sheriffs,  recommended  to  be  appointed  in  1685-6 
by  the  Earl  of  Clarendon,  Edward  Baggot  was  named  for  the 
King's  County,  as  ^  reputed  dishonest  but  loyal;'  to  which  the 
Lord  Clarendon's  return  is  underlined,  Wery  loyal,  though 
once  questioned  for  fitvouring  Tories,  but  acquitted;  some 
think  him  to  be  a  Boman  Catholic.'*  A  Lieutenant-Colonel 
Baggot  Was  taken  prisoner  at  Aughrim^f  Nine  Baggots 
were  attainted  in  1691,  one  of  whom  was  a  Captain  in  Sir 
John  Fitzgerald's  Infimtry,  and  on  their  estates,  in  Carlow 
and  Limerick  Counties,  divers  claims  were  made  and  allowed 
at  Chichester  House;  those  in  the  former  were  chiefly  sold  to 
the  Bight  Honourable  Philip  Savage,  then  Chancellor  of  the 
Exchequer. 

*  Smger^s  Corresp,y  of  Lord  Clarendon^  v.  1,  p.  285. 
t  Story's  Impartial  Hisiory^  pt  XL,  p.  137. 


572  KINO  JA1CE8*8  IBI8H  ABMT  LIST. 


CAPTAIN  EDWARD  CADDON. 

This  officer  is  described  in  the  Inquisition  on  his  Attainder, 
as  Edward  Caddon  of  Kilkenny,  merchant.  A  James 
Caddon,  of  the  same  place  and  profession,  and  a  William 
Caddon  of  Cork  were  likewise  then  outlawed. 


CAPTAIN  JAMES  SHOETALL. 

This  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of  Edvrard 
the  Second ;  in  whose  reign  John^  son  of  Simon  '  Shortals,' 
appears  on  record4  In  1333  Bobert,  ooH  of  John  Shortals  of 
Claragh,  sued  out  a  possessory  writ.  JLn  1405  John  Shortals 
was  constituted  a  Guardian  of  the  Peace  for  the  County  of 
Kilkenny ;  in  five  years  after  which  the  King  gave  to  Thomas 
Shortals,  described  as  of  Dublin,  an  annuity  of  2S8,  8d, 
payable  out  of  the  fee-farm  of  said  city.  Robert  Shortals  was 
Sheriff  of  Kilkenny  in  1420,  while  the  aforesaid  Thomas  was 
Mayor  of  Dublin.  To  him  the  Sang,  in  1431,  committed  the 
custody  of  such  of  the  temporalities  of  the  Religious  House  of 
St.  Thomas  as  lay  in  Dunshaughlin,  County  Meath«  He  was 
in  the  same  year  constituted  one  of  the  Barons  of  the  Ex- 
chequer in  Ireland* 

In  the  reign  of  Elizabeth  Nicholas  Shortall,  a  descendant 
of  John  of  1333,  was  still  seised  of  the  manor  of  Upper 
Claragh,  at  which  time  Oliver  Shortall  was  seised  of  that  of 
Ballybrean;  while  in  1591  Patrick  Shortall  died  seised  of 
Jewellstown,  also  in  Kilkenny,  with  sundry  lands,  moors, 


HMMSBRSBBBCiaiVBBR^^ 


grace's  infantry.  573 

weirs,  and  mills.  Thomas  was  his  son  and  heir,  then  aged  32 
and  married.  He  died  in  1628  seised  thereof,  as  also  of  the 
manor  of  Dongarvan,  with  the  castle  and  several  messuages 
in  Jerpoint:  Peter  Shortall  was  his  son  and  heir,  then  aged 
24  and  married.  Edmund  Shortall  of  Highrath  died  in  1602 
leaving  Oliver  his  son  and  heir,  then  of  full  age  and  married; 
who,  described  as  Knight  in  1620,  being  joined  by  his  wife, 
Ellen  Shortall,  otherwise  Butler,  and  James,  his  son  and 
heir,  executed  a  settlement  of  his  estate  and  died  in  ten  years 
after,  leaving  said  James  his  heir,  with  four  other  sons, 
Peter,  Oliver,  John,  and  Robert.  This  James,  styled  of 
Ballylorcan,  died  in  1635,  leaving  Thomas  his  son  and  heir, 
then  aged  28  and  married,  and  who  was  attainted  in  16411 
Ortelius's  Map  correctly  locates  this  family  in  the  Barony  of 
Iverk,  County  Kilkenny;  where  many  of  their  castles  are 
still  standing,  as  at  Glaragh  aforesaid,  Kilbline,  Tubridj 
Cloghmantagh,  &c.  In  1678  Pierce  Shortall  passed  patent 
for  a  small  allotment  in  Galway. 

The  above  officer  was  attainted  as  James  Shortall  of  Kil- 
rush,  County  of  Kilkenny ;  as  were  Bobert  Shortall  of  the 
same  place,  Patrick  Shortall  of  Tubrid,  Nicholas  of  Shortalls- 
graig,  and  Bobert  of  Upper-Clare,  all  in  the  same  county; 
with  Nicholas,  son  of  Peter  Shortall  of  the  City  of  Kilkenny. 


CAPTAIN  MATTHEW  HOAE. 

This  family  is  of  record  in  Ireland  £rom  the  time  of  Edward 
the  Second,  in  Kildare,  Meath,  Louth,  and  more  especially  in 
Wexford.  Sir  David  *  le  Hore'  of  the  Pole,  was  Sheriff  of 
the  latter  county  in  1834,  as  was  his  son  Nicholas  in  1370, 


574  KIKO  JAMBS'S  IRISH  ABMT  UBT. 

1377,  and  1379.   About  the  jmr  1374  Hairy  Hore  of  BaUy- 
sallaghan,  in  the  Barony  of  Shebnalier,  in  Mid  ooontyy  was 
commissioQed  to  effect  the  levy  of  a  snbadyy  which  had  been 
charged  thoceon  at  the  Parliament  of  Kilkenny ;  eoon  after 
which  'Wmiam  le  Hore  was  Chief  Seigeant  of  Wexford,  of 
whidi  county  his  son,  another  Nicholas,  was  Sheriff  in  1390 
and  1396.    In  1382  Patrick  Hore  was  one  of  those  deputed 
to  asaeM  and  array  the  County  of  C<h4c  for  a  hosting.    In 
1412  the  King  confirmed  the  title  of  Henrys  son  of  John 
Hore,  to  the  manor  of  Kilmannook  in  Wexford;  at  whidi 
time  William,  son  of  Matthew  Hore  of  £9ielmali!^,  was  one 
of  the  persons  deputed  to  collect  off  that  county  a  som,  which 
its  commonaliy  had  yoted  for  the  Prior  of  Kilmainham.    In 
1603  Philip  Hore  of  KibaJlaghani  had  a  grant  of  sondry 
parsonages^  with  their  tithes,  in  the  County  of  Soldare;  and 
in  nine  years  after,  he  passed  a  confirmatory  patent  for  the 
manor  of  Kilsallaghan,  with  woods,  mills,  and  other  premises 
therein,  and  in  Chapelmidway,  Killossory,  Lusk,  Castl^nock, 
Ballydowde,  Ac.,  in  the  County  of  Dublin;  Bumell's  Inns, 
&c.,  in  ike  City;  Burgages  in  Waterford;  lands  in  WicUow; 
and  meadows  and  mills  in  Meath.   In  1615  the  same  patentee 
had  further  grants  in  Wexford,*  Meath,  Dublin  City  and 
County,  as  well  as  in  Bosoommon, 

A  funeral  entry  of  1636,  of  record  in  the  Office  of  Arms, 
certifies  the  death,  on  the  11th  Mi^y  in  that  year,  of  Edward 
Hore  of  Harperstown,  County  of  Wexford,  buried  at 
^  Monneth.'  He  had  married  Alison,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Hore  of  Waterford,  merchant,  by  whom  he  left  three  sons, 
Andrew,  Thomas,  and  Luke,  and  three  daughters.  In  1642 
were  attainted  ike  aforesaid  Philip  with  James  *  Hore^  of 
Kilsallaghan,  County  of  Dublin.  Of  the  confederate  Catholics 
at  the  Council  of  Kilkenny  in  1646  were  William  Hore  of 


6BAC£*8  INFANTBT.  575 

Cork  and  another  William  Hoare*  In  1667  Captain  Edward 
and  Lieutenant  Abraham  Hoare  had  a  confirmatory  patent 
for  3,468  acres  in  Cork ;  while,  about  the  same  time,  Philip 
*  Hore*  had  a  similar  grant  of  Cafitleknock,  with  1,429  acres, 
in  the  County  Dublin,  and  of  Pole-hore,  <S;c.,  4,873  acres  in 
Wexford,  as  had  Matthew  Hore  of  1,423  in  Waterford.  In 
1685-6  an  association  originated  in  Ireland  for  the  object  of 
obtaining  Catholic  emanoipation;  its  ehaiaeter  and  scope,  as 
reported  by  the  Earl  of  Clareiidon,  are  published  in  Singer's 
Correspondince^  &c.  (voL  i,  p*  233,  &c.)  Gentlemen  were 
appointed  and  entrusted  in  every  county  to  collect  contribu* 
tions  and  pay  same  to  the  above  Luke  Hore,  then  a  merchant 
in  Dublin ;  and  whereas  several  natives  of  this  kingdom  are 
merchants  *  abroad  in  foreign  parts,  their  contributions  are 
expected,  and  requested  to  be  pdd  to  the  said  Luke,  who  is 
to  deliver  all  such  moneys  aa  he  shall  so  receive,  to  agents 
approved  of  by  the  Earl  of  TyrwnneL" 

The  above  Captain  Matthew  was  of  Shandon,  County  of 
Waterford;  he  was  one  of  the  n^embers  for  that  county  in 
the  Parliament  of  1689,  and  because  afterwarda  a  lieutenant- 
Colonel**  Besides  bim  there  were  in  the  Parliament  of 
Dublin,  John  Hore  and  Martin  Hore,  Members  for  the 
Borough  of  Dungarvan ;  as  were  George  Hore  of  Pole-Hore 
and  Walter  Hore  of  Harperstown  for  that  of  Taghmon. 
The  Attainders  of  1691  name  the  said  Luke  as  *  Lucas 
Hoare  of  Wexford,'  the  above  Captain  Matthew,  styled  of 
Waterford,  with  George,  Walter,  John,  and  Martin  Hoare ; 
on  whose  Wexford  estates  many  daims  were  made  at  Chidies- 
ter  House,  and  some  allowed. 

•  NkhoPs  Tap.  et  Qtnt.^jbr  1868.  pp.  48e-87. 


576  KIKG  JAMBS'S  IRISH  ABMT  UBT. 


CAPTAIN  AND  ENSIGN  BRENAN. 

The  Mac  Bnumans  were  Chie6  of  CorcagUan,  a  diBtrict  in 
the  County  of  Rofloonunon,  fonning  part  of  that  in  which 
stands  the  well-known  monntain,  Slieye  Bann.  So  early  as 
in  the  year  1159,  the  Masters  record  the  death  of  Branan 
Mac  Branan,  Chief  of  Corcaghlan,  in  an  engagement  between 
the  O'Conora  and  O'Briens ;  and  in  1256  that  of  Banall 
Mac  Branan,  lord  of  the  same  district.  In  1385  Thomas  St. 
L^er,  Baron  of  Obergy,  receiyed  from  the  treasury  ten 
marks  as  a  reward  for  taking  prisoners  Dermott  roe  O'Brennan 
and  John  roe  O'Brennan,  and  slaying  Teigue,  son  of  the 
O'Brennan.  In  1399  John,  son  of  William  O'Brennan,  an 
Irishman,  obtained  the  freedom  of  English  law  for  himself 
and  his  issue ;  and,  in  1435,  Thomas  O'Brennan  had  a  similar 
denization,  as  had  Art  O'Brenane  and  his  issue  in  1452,  and 
Darid  and  Clement  Brenan,  '  Irishmen'  in  1460. 

Early  in  the  reign  of  King  James,  Donat  and  Melaghlin, 
sons  of  ^  Firr^  O'Brennan,  were  seised  in  fee  of  lands  in  the 
County  Kilkenny,  of  which  they  then  executed  a  family 
settlement.  In  1622  Edmund  Brennan,  joined  by  his  son 
and  heir  Oliver,  and  by  Eleanor  Breiman,  otherwise  Lynch 
(of  Crdboy),  the  wife  of  said  Oliver,  settled  the  lands  of 
Adamston,  in  Westmeath,  to  family  uses.  Edmund  died  in 
ten  years  after,  Oliver,  his  heir  being  then  forty  years  of  age. 
An  Inquisition,  taken  in  1635,  at  Kilkenny,  found  Donat, 
son  of  William  O'Brennan,  Edmund,  son  of  Melaghlin 
O'Brennan,  and  fourteen  others  of  their  sept,  proprietors 
within  that  County.    At  the  Supreme  Council,  held  in  the 


grace's  infantry.  577 

city  there  in  1646,  John  Brennan,  styled  of  Cloynfinlough, 
was  of  its  Commons. 

One  of  this  surname  was  a  Captain  in  Charles  Moore's 
Infantry,  while  Edmimd  Brennan  was  a  Lieutenant  in  the 
Swing's  Own  Regiment,  as  was  John  Brenan  in  Colonel 
Edward  Butler's. 


LIEUTENANT  THOMAS  PEARSON. 


He  was  attainted  as  '  Thomas  Pierson  of  Kilkenny.' 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  D' ALTON. 

See  of  this  family  at  ^  Captain  Miles  D' Alton,'  in  Colonel 
Clifford's  Dragoons.  They  had  large  estates  in  the  County 
of  Kilkenny,  as  shown  by  the  description  of  their  attainders. 


LIEUTENANT  VALENTINE  BOLGER. 

The  O'Bolgers  were  an  Irish  Sept  located  in  Wexford  and 
Carlow.  In  1461  William  O'Bolger,  a  chaplain  of  the  Irish 
nation,  had  a  charter  of  denization  from  Eang  Edward  the 
Fourth,  as  by  special  grace  and  favour,  granting  to  him 
freedom  from  all  Irish  servitude,  liberty  to  use  English  laws 
and  customs,  to  plead  and  be  impleaded  in  the  courts,  and 
to  acquire  lands,  tenements,  and  services  for  ever.*    A  branch 

♦  Pat  Roll,  1,  Edw.  IV. 
VOL.  II.  2   P 


578  KIXG  JAMEfi*8  IBISH   ABMT  UST. 

of  this  fiunily  wa«  in  the  aeFenteoith  oe&tury  eetded  at 
BlanchfieldBtown,  in  the  County  of  Kilkenny,  </ which  County 
this  officer  was  a  natiYe.  His  name  does  not  uppeur  on  the 
attainders  of  1691,  but  that  of  James  Bolger  described  as 
of  Inistiogue  does;  and  in  his  estates  there  Pat  Bolgor,  a 
minor,  claimed  and  was  allowed  an  estate  tail,  subject  to 
which  interest  it  was  sold  to  Arthur  Anderson,  derk. 


ENSIGN DAY. 


NoTHDTG  has  been  ascertained  of  this  officer  or  his  £unily. 


ENSIGN  THOMAS  GIBBON. 

This  officer  is  in  his  outlawry  of  1691  described  as  of  Erris, 
in  the  County  of  Mayo,  as  is  also  Riduud  Gibbon. 


ENSIGN  JOHN  KNARESBOROUGH. 

Hb  likewise  was  of  Kilkenny,  described  in  his  atttdnder  as  of 
Ballcallon  in  that  county.     The  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland 

from  the  time  of  Edward  the  First. In   1398   Oliver 

EJoaresborough  is  mentioned  as  a  proprietor  in  Ealkenny,  and 
in  1432  the  gratitude  of  the  King  was  acknowledged  to 
Thomas  and  Robert  *  Knarysbuigh,*  citizens  of  Kilkenny,  for 
services  in  resisting  the  Irish. 


EDWARD   BUTLERS   INFANTRY. 


579 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 


COLONEL  EDWARD   BUTLER'S. 


Captains. 

The  Colonel. 

John  EnniSy 
Lieutenant-Colonel. 

[Garret  Geoghegan,] 
Major. 

Kdinund  Butler, 
Grenad. 

Edmund  Butler. 

John  Fitzgerald. 

John  Fitz-Patrick. 

James  Blanchyille. 

John  Rowsh. 

James  Baron. 

John  Power. 

Patrick  Pay. 

[George  Gafncy.] 

[Michael  Forster.] 

— — ^  Aylward. 

Nolan. 


lAeutenanU. 

—  Butler. 
-Shea. 


Enngns. 

Burke. 
Shea. 


{Edmund  Butler. 
Basil  Browne. 

Sjmon  Cleer.  John  Purcell. 

Oliyer  Purcell.  John  Butler. 

Darby  Fitz-Patrick  

Samuel  Leigh.  Nicholas  Blanchville. 

Thomas  *  Haheme.*  William  Comin. 

[Daniel  Magrath.]  [John  Magrath  ] 

[William  Dormer.]  

[Michael  Blanchfield.]  

[John  Brenan.]  John  Loughnan, 

—  ForstaU.  Even. 

~— .  ManhalL  ^-~  Nolan. 

.: Bourdon,  Quarter-Master, 

Father  John,  a  Capuchin,  Cht^km* 
—^  Hagan,  JSurgeon, 


580  Knro  james's  ibish  abxt  list. 


COLONEL  EDWARD  BUTLER. 

The  notices  of  this  noble  fiunily,  as  full  as  could  be  allowed 
in  this  work,  are  inserted  at  Lord  Visoount  Galmoy.  This 
officer  appears  to  have  been  the  Edward,  son  of  Richard  Bntler 
of  Eilkennj,  there  mentioned  to  have  been  attainted  in  1691. 
At  any  rate,  it  is  of  certainty  that  this  Regiment  was  on  the 
4th  May  of  that  year  engaged  in  a  skirmish  with  Major 
Wood,  of  the  Williamite  party,  near  Castle  Cuff^  who  reported 
his  success  on  that  occasion,  giving  a  list  of  officers,  expressly 
as  of  Colonel  Butler's  Lifantry,  who  were  there  taken 
prisoners ;  as  Captains  Michael  Forster  and  Edmund  Butiier, 
Lieutenants  Daniel  Magrath,  WilHam  Dormer ^  Oliver  Pur- 
cell,  Michael  Blanchjield,  and  Ensign  John  Magrath.  This 
Regiment  was  on  that  occasion  commanded  by  John  Fitz- 
patrick,  a  Captain  on  this  list,  but  then  the  Major.  The 
names  italicised  above  do  not  appear  on  the  original  Army 
List,  but  are  inserted  as  being  thus  verified. 


LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  JOHN  ENNIS. 

On  the  attainders  of  1642  appear  the  names  of  James  and 
Maolmurry  Ennis  of  Grannagh^  County  of  Wicklow;  James 
Ennis  of  Clane,  County  of  Kildare,  and  Walter  *  Enes^  of 
Hacketstown,  clerk.  A  Lieutenant  James  '  Enis '  is  included 
in  the  clause  of  Royal  gratitude  in  the  Act  of  Settlement. 
The  officer  here  named  had  been  a  Major  in  the  French 


EDWARD  BUTLEB'S   INFANTBT.  581 

army,  when  he  volunteered  to  serve  King  James  in  Ireland, 
early  in  1689,  and  was  thus  duly  qualified  for  the  Lieutenant- 
Colonelcy  of  this  S^iment. 


[MAJOR  GARRETT  GEOGHEGAN.] 

This  appointment  is  filled  on  the  authority  of  the  Appendix 
to  King's  State  of  the  Protestants.  For  full  particulars  of  this 
name,  see  ante  Conly  Geoghegan,  a  Major  on  Lord  Dongan's 
Dragoons. 


CAPTAIN  JAMES  BLANCHVILLE. 

This  fiunily  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of  the 
Tudors,  and  was  especially  located  in  the  County  of  Kilkenny. 
In  1303  Nicholas  Blanch ville  was  Seneschal  of  Kilkenny, 
and  dying  in  1311,  Richard  Blanchville  became  the  executor 
of  his  will.  In  1335  John  de  Blanchville  was  one  of  the 
Knights  summoned  to  attend  the  Justiciary  of  Ireland  on  an 
expedition  against  Scotland.  In  1377  John,  son  of  the  above 
Richard,  being  a  minor,  his  heirship  and  '  maritagimn  *  were 
held  by  the  King's  Escheator.  In  1384  John  Blaunchevyll 
was  appointed  one  of  the  guardians  of  the  peace  in  Ejlkenny, 
as  was  Gilbert  Blauncheville  in  four  years  after ;  the  latter  was 
in  1425  one  of  those  commissioned  to  array  that  county  to 
military  service.  In  1447,  1449,  and  1450,  David  Blanche- 
ville,  of  Blanchevillestown,  was  Sheriff  of  Kilkenny.  At  the 
close  of  the  sixteenth  century,  Gerald  Blancheville  was  seised 


k 


582  KING  JAMBS'S  IBI8H  ARUT   LIST. 

of  considerable  eBtatee  in  this  county,  which  he  repieaented  in 
Perrot's  Parliament  of  1585.  He  married  Eleanor,  third 
daughter  of  the  first  Viscount  Mountgaxret,  and  widow  of 
Thomas  Tobin  of  Compsey ;  soon  after  which  he  settled  his 
estates  to  family  uses,  for  himself  for  life,  with  successive 
remainders  in  tail  male  to  his  son  and  heir,  Leonard  Blanch- 
ville,  to  James,  to  Edmund,  and  to  Grerald;  the  two  first  died 
without  issue  male.  In  the  Cathedral  of  Kilkenny  (whose 
history  has  been  ably  compiled  by  the  Beverend  Mr.  Grayes 
and  Mr.  Prim,)  is  a  monument  erected  to  the  memory  of 
Gerald  Blanchyille^  who  had  been  a  Captain  in  the  service  of 
the  Confederate  Catholics,  and  who  died  in  February,  1646. 
Edmund  forfeited  largely  by  attainder  in  1641,  as  did  then 
two  others  of  this  name. 

At  Chichester  House  in  1700  Ursula  Blanchville,  alias 
Bryan,  widow  of  Edmund  Blanchville,  claimed  and  was 
allowed  a  jointure  ofi*  his  Kilkenny  estate;  while  the  peti- 
tions of  their  daughters,  Margaret  and  Grace  Blanchville,  and 
Anne  Keating  alias  Blanchville,  with  Walter  Keating  her 
husband,  were  disinist.  A  subsequent  petition  was  presented 
to  Queen  Anne  on  behalf  of  said  Margaret,  praying  the 
restoration  of  her  lands  in  Kilkenny,  which  had  been  granted 
to  the  Duke  of  Albemarle,  and  were  withheld  by  him.  The 
appeal  was  ineffective.  Blanchfieldstown  was  sold  in  1708 
to  Edward  Worth  of  Rathfiimham,  while  it  may  be  noted 
that  in  the  list  of  pensioners  in  1710  appear  Anne  and  Crraee 
Blanchville,  each  for  £50  per  annum. 


EDWARD   butler's   INFANTRY.  683 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  ROWSH. 

So  stands  this  name  upon  the  present  Army  List,  but  it  is 
evidently  a  mis-speUing  for  Hooth  or  Rothe,  a  family  once  of 
much  respectability  in  Kilkenny.  (See  ante,  at  Captain 
Michael  Roth  in  the  King's  Own  Infantry.)  The  officer 
here  under  consideration  seems  identical  with  the  John  Roth* 
who,  in  that  Eling's  Parliament,  represented  Kilkenny,  of 
which  city  he  Was  Mayor;  and  in  James's  new  charter 
thereto,  three  of  the  aldermen  and  four  of  the  burgesses  bore 
this  name. 


CAPTAIN  JAMES  BARON. 

The  surname  of  '  Le  Baron'  is  of  early  and  extensive  record 
over  England  and  Scotland,  while  in  Ireland  ^  Baroun'  occurs 
from  the  days  of  Edward  the  Second,  chiefly  in  connexion 
with  the  county  of  Tipperary.  Burke,  in  his  Landed  Gentry^ 
relies  that  it  was  a  branch  of  the  great  House  of  Fitz-Gerald, 
which,  having  been  early  created  Palatine  Barons  of  Bum- 
ckurch,  used  to  distinguish  their  line  by  adopting  the  title  as 
their  patronymic,*  and  his  conclusion  is  supported  by  a  reccHrd 
of  1406,  beii^  a  patent,  whereby  Roland  Fita^Maurice  Baron, 
of  Bruntehurch,  and  three  others,  were  appointed  Guardians 

*  See  fiill  and  interesting  particulars  of  this  name  in  Bwke'%  Baronetage 
(at  Sir  He.;ry  Winston  Barron),  p.  61. 


584  KING  JAM£B*8  IBISH  ABMT  LIST. 

of  the  Peace  in  Kilkenny.  In  1518  Nicholas  Baron  was 
Abbot  of  the  mitred  monastery  of  Jerpomt  in  Kilkenny ;  in 
nine  years  after  Milo  Baron,  alias  Fitz-6erald,  was  appointed 
Bishop  of  Ossory.  He  is  said  to  have  died  of  grief  on  the 
Dissolution,  and  was  buried  at  Innistiogue  in  1550.  Roland 
Baron  alias  Fitz-Gerald  was  Archbishop  of  Cashel  in  1553. 

A  *■  Report  of  the  state  of  the  Priests,  Friaries,  &c.,  in 
Ireland,*  temp.  James  the  First,  describes  many  of  the  Romish 
Clergy,  '  keeping  with  or  resorting  to  the  Baron  of  Bum- 
church  and  his  tenants.'  In  1606  David  Baron  had  livery  of 
an  estate  in  the  County  of  Kilkenny,  as  son  and  heir  of 
Thomas  Fitz-Gerald  otherwise  Baron,  and  grandson  and  heir 
of  Edmund,  father  of  eaid  Thomas,  late  of  Browneford  in  said 
County,  deceased ;  and  this  David,  under  the  same  designation 
and  cUiaSy  was  a  trustee  of  the  Grace  Estates  in  1611,  and  had 
in  1614  the  grant  of  a  wardship.  It  may  be  mentioned  that 
the  family  settlement,  under  which  this  David  derived  title, 
made  him  tenant  in  tail  male,  remainder  to  his  next  brother, 
Milo  Baron,  in  tail,  and,  in  defect  of  such  issue,  remainder  to 
the  right  heirs  of  the  settlor.  Geoffiney  Baron,  styled^  as  of 
Clonmel,  but  then  in  France,*  was  one  of  the  Supreme  Council 
at  Kilkenny,  and  appointed  by  the  Nuncio  a  Commissary  over 
the  Revenues  of  Ireland.  He  was  consequently  in  Crom- 
well's Denunciation  of  1652,  excepted  from  pardon  for  life 
and  estate.  The  name  is  not  on  the  Attainders  of  1642 ;  but 
a  Geoffirey  Barron,  and  Lieutenant  Walter  Barron  appear  on 
the  Roll  of  Adjudications  for  the  1649  officers,  whose  claims 
were  recognised  in  1666.  The  Attainders  of  1691  present 
only  Patrick  Baron  of  Killisk,  County  of  Wexford,  and  John 
and  Richard  Barron  of  Waterford. 


*  De  Burg6*s  Hib,  Dom,^  p.  881* 


EDWABD  butleb's  infantbt.  585 


CAPTAIN  PATKICK  PAY. 

Anotheb  of  the  snmame  was  Captain  in  Grace's  Infantry, 
as  was  a  Francis  Pay  in  Colonel  Heward  Oxborgh's.  The 
name  of  the  latter  dbes  not  appear  on  the  Attainders  of  1691, 
but  that  of  Patrick  does,  described  as  of  Ballyragget,  Coanty 
of  Kilkenny.  James,  Thomas,  and  William  Pay  were  then 
also  attainted  as  of  Kilmuckar,  in  the  same  county.  At 
Chichester  House  in  1700,  William  Pay  claimed  a  freehold 
interest  in  the  estate  of  this  Thomas,  but  his  petition  was 
dismist,  and  the  estate  was  sold  to  the  Hollow  Swords*  Blades 
Company. 


[CAPTAIN  GEOKGE  GAFNEY.] 

Although  another  of  this  surname  is  set  down  a  Captain  in 
Colonel  Dudley  Bagnall's  Infantry,  and  the  name  of  this  officer 
is  not  on  the  present  Army  List,  yet,  as  through  the  research 
of  the  Beverend  James  Graves,  Honorary  Secretary  of  the 
Kilkenny  Archaeological  Society,  very  full  extracts  from  a 
document,  that  purports  to  be  the  autograph  ''  Memorandum 
Book  of  Captain  George  Gafney  of  Kilkenny,  an  Officer  of 
King  James's  Army,''  have  been  communicated  to  that 
deserving  body,  and  published  in  their  Transactions  of  July, 
1854,  the  opportunity  was  embraced,  with  their  and  his  kind 
permission,  of  here  noting  therefrom  what  appeared  relevant 
to  the  present  subject.  "  The  family  of  Gafney,"  writes  Mr. 
Graves  to  the  compiler  of  this  work,  ."  seems  to  have  been 
founded  or  at  least  raised  to  a  noticeable  position  in  the  Irish- 
town  of  Kilkenny,  by  the  Prelate  of  that  name,  Christopher, 


586  KING  JAH£S*S  IRISH  ASBCT  LIBT. 

who  filled  the  See  of  Oasory  from  1565  to  1576 ;  and  the  name 
frequently  occurs  in  the  Corporation  Books.  Robert  Grafney 
was  a  chaplain  in  Kilkenny  in  1585,  possibly  a  son  of  the 
Bishop,  while  Thomas  (xafhey  had  a  lease  of  various  houses 
in  that  city  under  the  see,  and  was  doubtless  another  son  of 
Dr.  Christopher.  Thomas  died  in  1629,  leaving  Patrick  his 
son  and  heir,  then  of  full  age  and  married.  Most  probably, 
Captain  George  was  of  this  line." 

The  dates  of  the  entries  in  the  Memorandum  Book  extend 
over  a  period  of  about  eighteen  months,  terminating  a  few 
days  before  the  Battle  of  the  Boyne,  where  it  would  seem  the 
writer  fell.  The  first  entry  worthy  of  notice  bears  date  {circa 
29th)  March,  1689. 

"  A  list  of  Caption  Greorge  Gafbey  his  Gompany  of  Foot,  in  the  Bight 
Honourable  Colonel  Butler's  Regiment 

"  Captiun  George  Gafiiey,  Lieutenant  John  Brenan,  and  Ensign  John 
Loughnan,**  with  the  *  sargents,'  corporals,  and  prtTates  fully,  by  name.^ 

Next  come  his  charges  to  and  from  Dublin,  dated  4th 
April,  1689:— 

^*  To  mj  charges  going  and  coming  firom  Dublin,  to 
get  the  three  commissions  entered  in  the  Muster- 
Master  General's  office,  and  for  expedition,  -        -  ^1     8    6 
For  a  drum  in  Dublin,  and  *  carige,*         -         -        -     1     0    0 
For  a  new  drum  head,  and  putting  it  on,  -         -        >     0     I     6 
For  drum-sticks,    -        -        -        -        -        -        -016 

For  sixteen  spear  heads  at  8d.  per,  -        -        -        -    0  10    8 

One  and  a-half  a  st  Steele  put  in  y*  speares,      -        -004 

For  nails  for  the  speares, 004 

Paid  Paul  Heare  for  making  my  own  ^  leding  stafe,'  -000 
Paid  do.  for  a  musket  38.,  for  fixing  the  lock,  6d.,  0  3  6 
For  a  scabbard  and  handle  for  the  broad  back  sorde,  -  0  3  0 
For  the  back  sorde  to  P.  Heare,  -  -  -  -  0  2  0 
For  two  rapiers  to  P.  Heare,  -  -  -  -  -030 
For  a  rapier  that  was  broken  by  the  ^  sargent,*  -        -     1     0    0 


EDWASD  butleb's  OnrANTBT.  587 

Another  entry  of  April  9th,  1689,  suggests  that  King 
James  was  on  that  night  in  Kilkenny : — 

"  Gave  tbe  men  a  barrel  of  ^beere'  to  drink  the 

King*s  health  the  night  he  catne  to  Kilkenny,       -  £0  16    0 
One  BO.  of  powder  to  give  a  *  voley,'         -        -        -    0    2    0 

Next,  at  the  close  of  the  year,  after  the  landing  of  Schon- 
berg,  and  in  the  immediate  view  of  active  service,  occurs  a 
prudent  financial  '  account  of  what  cash  I  have  by  me,  and 
the  value  of  each  coin ' : — 


41 


To  ten  '  gines' at  248.  per  gine,     ...        .£12    0    0 

To  one  'Portingallpece' 1   15    0 

To  ^to'  broad  jabons  at  26s.  per,  -  -  -  -  2  12  0 
To  'to'  half  jabona  at  ISs.  per,  -  -  -  -  1  6  0 
To  one  quarter  jabons,-        -        -        -        -        -066 

To  one  broad  Carolus, 150 

To  'to' half  do.  at  128.  6d.,  -  -  -  -  1  5  0 
To  'to*  qnarterdo.  at  68.  dd.,       -        >         -         -       0  12    6 

To  one  half  Edward, 0  13    0 

To  cash  in  silver  the  suns  of,         -         -         -         -     86  16    8^ 

To  Engliah  money, 13    0    7^ 

To  cash  in  silyer  in  one  pars,         ....  loo    0    0 

In  'goulde*  and  silver  y*  sum,     -         -        -  171  12    4 
(Tot  sic  in  error  in  orig.) 

In  'bras'  money, 20^   00 

In  'bras'  money  in  one  'purs,'  -         -         -  110    0    0 

''  It  will  be  seen,''  observes  Mr.  Graves,  "  that  the  writer 
carefully  enters  the  rate  of  exchange  of  the  sterling  money, 
showing  a  considerable  premium  in  consequence  of  the 
depressed  state  of  the  currency ;  of  which  an  indication  also 
occurs  in  the  quantity  of  brass  money  in  the  worthy  Captain^s 
exchequer." 


588  KINa  JAMES'8   IBI8H  ARMY  LIST. 

**  March  4th,  1689,  expended  in  treating  the  *  Magerr,' 
&C.,  nx  ^boteU*  of  darett  and  ^to'  pots  of  March 
beer,  &c., £081 

March  the  6th,  1689  [this  and  the  last  date,  it  may 
be  remarked,  were  subsequent  to  the  above  of 
April  in  old  style], 

Reoeiyed  of  *Magur*  Corbett,  per  the  hands  of 
Captun  Roche,  a  forthnig^t  ^  subsistans'  for  my 
company  until  the  14th  of  March,  £14  Is.  4d.,  and 
for  the  odd  days  of  the  former  account,  £5  Os.  5d.,     19     1    9 

That  is  to  say,  2  *  sargens'  6s.  per  week,  three  cor- 
porals and  one  drummer  at  38.  per,  fifty  ^privat* 
men  at  2s.  4d  per. 

On  the  23rd  April,  1690,  dravm  np  at  Drogheda,  within  a 
few  weeks  of  the  battle  of  the  Boyne,  is  a  *^  Memorandum 
cleared  with  the  under-named  for  all  arrears  of  '  groats'  until 
this  23rd  day  of  April,  '90,  att  Drocda."  The  list  comprises 
the  names  of  forty  persons. 

Under  several  dates,  extending  over  the  months  of  April 
and  May,  1690,  there  are  accounts  kept  of  the  distribution  of 
pumps,  '  sherts/  stockings,  &c.,  supplied  to  Captain  Ga&ey's 
company  at  Dundalk  and  Drogheda.  And  last  come  what 
Mr.  Graves  considers  the  most  curious  entries,  viz.,  some 
general  orders  of  the  army,  **  which,  like  a  careful  officer, 
Captain  Gafney  had  copied  into  his  memorandum  book." 
The  first  of  these,  traceable,  bears  date  June  18th,  1690: — 

'^The  General  to  beat  att  4  the  assemble  when  ordered;  the  ^gards* 
for  Moyree  to  be  reliered  by  thirty  men  from  O'Bryan,  *  Bagnell,*  Hamil- 
ton (John),  and  'BeUu.'  O'Bryan,  Lieutenant-Colonel,  a  Captain  and 
Subaltern  from  each,  with  drum,  two  sargens  att  3  o*clock  to  be  at  the 
head  of  the  guards  to  relieve  the  like  number  att  Moyree  Castle,  on  the 
road  to  the  *  Nurey.'    The  detachment  for  the  horses  as  usually  is  att  3 

o'clock  in  the  morning,  when    the   guards   beat  the  assembly 

Smpetar,  Brigadiere  for  the  day  ;    Lord  Belln,  Colonel ;    Hamilton, 


EDWARD  butler's  INFANTRT. 


58d 


} 
} 


-     3 


3 


-     5 


lieutenant-ColoneL Left-General  Hamilton  lost  a  'guide  wach  with 

seales*  to  it,  if  '  annejr  souldier  j* '  found  it  shall  have  ten  shillins  for  his 

pains,  and  if  any  bought  it,  he  shaU  be  returned  his  money ^The  word 

St.  '  Poule.' " 

A  few  days  before  the  battle  of  the  Boyne,  King  James 
encamped  at  Cookstown,  near  Ardee,  when  an  entry  of  the 
24th  of  June,  1690,  giyes  a  list  of  the  Kegiments  there,  and 
the  order  of  encampment,  as  follows:— 

The  first  line  on  the  right. 

Seven  Troops  of  Guards 

Duke  of  Tyrconnel*s  '  Regment '  of  Horse 

Three  Battalions  of  the  Royal  *'  Regment* 

51  '  Gompaneys*  compute  three  'Regments* 

Lord  Antrim 

LordBellu 

*GopdeanO'NeiU' 

Lord  of  Louth 

Granprior 

Seven  of  French,  each  oont.   16   companeys   per 

Regment     ------- 

^  Golmoy*s'  R^ment  of  Hors  cont.  nine  ^  trup'  - 

Maz£ld*s  (Maxwell's)  Regment  of  Dragoons 

In  Ardee  Col.  Gase  (Grace)  and  y*  *  to'  Col.  Mac 

Mahons  (Art  and  Hugh)      .... 
Second  Ime  on  the  right 
Lord  of  Clare  his  Regment  of  Dragoons  - 
Sunderland  his  Regment,  five  troops 

*ParkerV  Regment  of*  Hors' 1 

Hamilton's  Foot 

Lord  of  Westmeath 

Sir'lkCchael'Cregh' 

*•  Mahgilicutt' 

G'Bryan 

Buslo  (Boiseleau) 

Bagnall 

Lord  of  ^Tinme' 


7 
1 
1 

3 

1 
1 


-    8 


590  KOFG  JAMBS  g   IMMBB  AMMY  U8T. 


BigMftK^THcne S 

a  Brgmff  cf  Un^mm -    a 

mdiColoDd  'SmOd* 

CoL  S«afild*f  Eegnesl  of  Hon* 

Apnikara*«  (AberoQrn*^)  '  Hon* 

Cfif ord*>  Dngnns 

fiv  Kede  (THede**  Dr^oov 

Colooel  CamlTi  DrigooM 

Fooc 
LotdofSboe 

Ckinickanl 
Gflhvmr 


Kngent 

Comaiiitown  (Gormaastoii) 

Captain   Geoi^e  Gaiiiey  was  attainted  in   1691  as   'of 
Kilkenny,'  together  with  Connor    Gia&ey  of  Drombrick, 
County  of  LeitrinL 


CAPTAIN  MICHAEL  FORSTER. 

At  the  earliest  year  of  the  English  invasion  of  Ireland 
Nicholas  '  Foraster'  was  one  of  the  witnesses  to  Walter  de 
Lacy's  charter  to  Trim. 

Captain  John  Forster  was  one  of  the  '  1649*  Oflicers  whose 
claim  for  pay  or  compensation  was  adjudicated  upon  in  1666. 
The  names  of  Richard  and  William  Forster  likewise  appear 
upon  that  Record;  while  a  *  Foster*  was  one  of  the  Captains 
in  Clifford's  Re^ment  of  Dtagoons.  /^      y^    j^    /" 


E0WABD   butler's   INFANTET.  591 


LIEUTENANT  SYMON  CLEAR. 

Clear  or  Cleere  was  also  the  name  of  a  Kilkenny  fiunlly, 
established  there  previoasly  to  the  period  of  this  war. 
Symon  is  described  accordingly,  on  the  Inquisition  for  his 
attainder,  as  *'  of  Downamore,  County  of  Kilkenny,*  while  at 
the  same  time  was  attainted  William  '  Cleere'  *  of  Galway,' 
merchant.  The  name  is  otherwise  traced  of  record  in  Ireland, 
from  the  time  of  Edward  the  Second. 


LIEUTENANT  SAMUEL  LEIGH. 

The  Leighs  or  Leas  were  old  settlers  in  Kilkenny,  and  were 
likewise  established  in  the  County  of  Kildare,  and  other 
parts  of  Ireland.  In  1668  Thomas  Leigh  had  a  confirmatory 
grant  of  674  acres  in  Meath,  as  had  Robert  '  Lee*  of  609  in 
Waterford;  William  Leigh  of  6,092  in  Wexford;  Ensign 
William  ^Ley*  <^  610  in  Monaghan;  Francis  Leigh  of  485 

and  Robert  Leigh  of  118  in  Kildare. Lieutenant  Henry 

'  Lee '  IB  named  on  the  Roll  of  Adjudications  for  the  '1649* 
Officers,  while  Thomas  'Lee'  was  a  Quarter-Master  in  Lord 
Clare's  Dragoons,  and  in  Lord  Bellew's  Infantry  John  'Ley' 
was  a  Lieutenant.  In  the  Parliament  of  1689,  Francis  Leigh 
was  one  of  the  Representatives  of  the  Borough  of  Ejldare. 
The  name  of  Samuel  does  not  appear  on  the  Attainders  of 
1691,  but  ihsit  of  Francis  Leigh,  '  of  Rathbride,  Cotmty 
Kildare,'  does.  (His  ancestor,  John  Lee  of  the  same  place, 
was  attainted  in  1642.)  There  were  also  then  outlawed  fiye 
others  of  the  name. 


592  KDG  James's  nusH  asmt  ust. 

For  the  name  of  Lee,  as  smgolariy  distingiiislied  on  the 
Continent^  in  the  person  of  Lieatensnt-G«Denl  Andrew  Lee, 
Commander  and  Grand  Cross  of  the  Boyal  and 


'  St.  Loois,  and  the  Histoiy  of  the  Kegiment 
belonged,  see  CCaUaghanB  Irigk  BrigadeB^  toL  1 


LIEUTENANT FORSTALL. 

Ih  his  attainder  of  1691  this  officer  is  described  as  IVfichari 
^Fonestal*  of  the  dty  of  Kilkenny,  and  unth  him  ware  also 
outlawed  Grarrett  and  Geoffirey  Forrestal  of  the  Coonty 
Wexford.  The  name  is  tmoeable  in  the  former  County  firom 
the  reign  of  Edward  the  Third.  In  that  of  James  the  First 
James  Forrestall  was  seised  of  the  manor  of  Kilfienigh,  therdn 
with  mills  and  weirs  upon  the  Nore;  he  died  in  1619,  leaving 
Bobert  his  son  and  heir,  then  aged  thirty  and  married.  In 
1608  Gibbon  Forstal  died,  sdsed  of  ForstaUstown  and  other 
denominations,  also  there;  his  son  and  heir,  Walter,  bdng  at 
that  time  of  full  age  and  married.  This  Walter  died  in  1639, 
leaving  James,  his  son  and  hor,  then  of  full  age  and  married. 
Bobert  and  Thomas  were  forfeiting  proprietors  hero  in  1641. 


ENSIGN  JOHN  LOUGHNAN. 

Of  this  Kilkenny  surname  it  may  be  remarked  that  the 
Four  Masters,  at  the  year  1236,  rolate  that  Maolmuire 
O^Langhnan,"  having  been  elected  to  the  see  of  Tuam,  went 
to  En^and,  and  after  receiving  the  Pope's  letters,  was,  wilJi 


ABT  M'MAH0N*8   INFAKTRT. 


593 


the  consent  of  the  King,  consecrated  to  that  Prelacy.  His 
death,  in  1249,  is  commemorated  by  the  same  Annalists.  In 
1251  died  Flan  O'Loughnan,  chief  of  a  large  district  in  Mayo, 
called  the  *  Two  Backs;'  and  Laurence  O'Loughnan,  a  grey 
fUar,  died  Bishop  of  Ealmaoduagh  in  1307,  as  did  another  of 
the  sept  Bishop  of  Connaught  in  1354.  In  some  centuries 
after  John  Loughnan  was  seised  of  certain  premises  in  Kil- 
kenny, parcel  of  the  possessions  of  the  dissolved  Abbey  of 
Black  Friars  in  that  city.  The  name  is  yet  of  respectability 
there* 


BEGIMENtS  OF  INFANTRY. 


COLONEL  ABT  H'MAHON'S. 


Captains. 

»    *             ^ , M 

Eniigni. 

The  Colonel 

Mac  Mahon. 

...«->  Kinselagh. 

Phflip  Beilly, 

*— Ward. 

.— *  Mac  Mahdn. 

Lieutenant-Colonel. 

Hngh  Magexmu, 

Qonn  Bfagenniat 

-, —  *Btan.' 

Major. 

Mylee  KeiDy. 

PhiUp  Reiliy. 

— ^  Brady. 

Connor  Keilty, 

Edpinnd  Beilly. 

Bryan  Reilly. 

Charles  BeOlj. 

Thomas  Reyle^. 

Pi^  Mac  Mahon. 

Edmund  Beilly. 

Hugh  Reilly. 

Philip  Reilly. 

Hugh  Rdllj. 

Thomas  Reflly. 

John  Reilly, 

John  Brady. 

Philip  Brad^-. 

Pa.  Brady, 

Dii£^. 

Mac  Mahon. 

Dnffjr. 

Coll  Mac  Mahon. 

Edmd.  Mac  Mahon. 

Syl  Mac  Mahon. 

Pa.  Mac  Mahon. 

Owen  Mac  Mahon. 

VOL.  II. 

2q 

594  KING  JAMES'S  IBISH  ABHY  UST. 


COLONEL  ART  MAC  MAHON. 

The  sept  of  Mac  Mahon  ranked  Princes  of  Monaghan  and 
territorial  lords  of  Fumey,  from  very  remote  time,  as  b 
shown  in  a  report^  of  Sir  John  Davis,  the  L^  Attorney- 
General,  to  Eli^beth  and  James  the  First.  Their  country 
was  early  subjected  to  the  inroads  and  devastation  of  Sir 
John  de  Courcy,  in  his  expedition  for  the  conquest  of  Ulster. 
In  1310  Edward  the  Second  took  ^  Maghoun  mac  Maghoun ' 
and  his  whole  sept  under  his  protection,  and,  in  1314,  that 
Monarch  directed  an  especial  letter  missive  to  Brien  Mac 
Mahon,  *  Duci  Hibemicorum  de  Uriel,'  to  aid  him  in  the 
Scottish  war;  in  two  years  after  which,  at  the  memorable 
battle  of  Athenry,  fought  between  the  English  settlers  in 
Connaught  and  the  natives,  MoroQgh,  son  of  Morough  Mac 
Mahon,  with  one  hundred  of  his  people,  was  slain.  In  1346 
Bryan  Mac  Mahon,  then  chief,  defeated  the  English  in  battle, 
slaying  three  hundred  of  their  men.  The  King  in  1355 
however  granted  ^  sufferance  of  peace '  to  him,  as  also  to  five 
others  of  the  sept,  'for  certain  reasons  propounded  to  the 
Justiciary/  The  native  Annals  about  this  time  record  much 
concerning  the  Thomond  Mac  Mahons  and  the  succession  of 
their  chiefs ;  but  as,  on  the  best  authorities,  they  are  considered 
to  have  been  of  the  race  of  Heber,  descended  from  Mahon 
O'Brien,  who  was  Prince  of  Thomond  in  the  twelfth  centiuy, 
none  of  these  notices  can  be  applicable  here. 

In  1382  the  Constable  of  the  Castle  of  Louth  was  ordered, 
in  pursuance  of  a  treaty,  to  deliver  to  the  Sheriff  of  Louth, 
Eneas  Mac  Mahon,  then  a  prisoner  in  said  castle.  At  the 
close  of  that  century  (1394)  the  Mac  Mahon  was  one  of  the 


ABT  m'mabon's  ikfaktbt.  595 

Ulster  Princes  who  did  hoidage  and  fealty  to  the  King's 
own  person  (Richard  the  Second)  in  the  Dominican  friary  of 
Drogheda.  In  the  ninth  year  of  the  reign  of  his  successor, 
the  Mae  Mahon  was  entrusted  with  the  custody  of  certain 
strong-holds  in  Famey,  (wUeh  the  record  describes  as  lying 
amidst  Irish  enemies),  this  King  haying  pieviousiy  gr&nted 
to  him  the  lands  and  lordship  of  Famey  (excepting  the  castle) ; 
while  Mac  Mahon  undertook  for  the  future  to  be  loyal,  and 
to  assist  in  hostings  against  Irish  enemies  and  rebels.  NeTer- 
theless,  in  1417,  the  Lord  Fumiyal,  the  celebrated  Sir  John 
Talbot,  of  Hallamsfaire,  b^ng  Lord  Lieuteoant  of  Ireknd,  , 
'rode  against  Mac  Mahon^  a  great  Irish  enemy,  and  a 
powerful  ehieftain  of  his  natioo^  and  him  cEd  strongly  invade 
by  divers  laborious  hostiugs  and  journeys,  and  burned  and 
destroyed  one  of  his  chief  places  with  all  his  towns  and  com 
about,  and  wounded  and  killed  a  great  mnltitude  of  his 
people/  Yet  was  the  power  of  thb  sept  and  its  neighbours 
so  formidable,  at  the  time  e£  the  accessicm  of  Henry  the  Sixth 
(1422),  that  the  Earl  of  Ormonde  then  Lord  Deputy,  in 
council  granted  to  William  de  Burga  Knight,  and  to  his: 
brother,  respective  sums  of  £40  and  20  marks,  ^for  that, 
without  their  assistance  the  Mac  Mahons  codid  not  have  been 
resisted;'  and  immediately  after  an  indenture  was  ratified 
whereby  Bernard  Mae  Mahon,  the  dbief,  and  Bory  and 
Mahon  his  brothers,  swdre  on  the  Goepek  to  fealty,  and  sur- 
rendered their  territory  to  the  King  of  Eh^nd.  The  daef 
on  this  occasion  ^ving  hia  eMest  son,  Bemardv  as  a  hostage. 
In  1431  '  the.  English,  with  a  great  force  of  cavalry,  marched 
to  plunder  the  territory  of  O'Reilly;  and  on  the  same' day 
Manus,  son  of  Ardgal  Mac  Mahon,  went  out  to  plunder  the 
English  settlemients,  when  having  received  intelligeDCe  of  the 
proceedings  of  the  Engjish  (against  O'Beilly),  he  qaiddy 


596  KINO  JAKES'S   IRISH  ABMT  LIST. 

went  in  pursuit  of  them,  and  finding  them  watching  thdr 
plunder,  he  vigorously  attacked  them,  took  their  prey  firom 
them,  made  their  chiefs  prisoners,  slew  others  of  them,  and 
returned  home  yictorious.'  In  1471  the  English  suffered  firom 
the  Mac  Mahons  of  Famey,  and  again,  in  1494  ^  they  were 
defeated  in  an  engagement  by  Mac  Mahon,  ue.,  Hugh  oge 
the  son  of  Hugh  rocy  and  by  O'Reilly,  ».«.,  John,  son  of 
Cathfll,  son  of  Owen,  son  of  John,  in  which  occurrence  three 
score  of  the  English  officers  were  slain,  and  many  were  taken 
prisonera/ 

In  1507  James  McMahon  succeeded  to  the  see  of  Deny, 
as  did  Patrick  McMahon  to  that  of  Aidagh  in  1553.  In 
1560  *'  the  Mac  Mahon,  t.«.,  Art  maoly  son  of  Bedmond,  son 
of  Glaisne,  was  slidn  by  the  Scots  in  O'Neill's  forces,  while 
unguarded  between  two  armies  in  the  Routes  of  McQuillan. 
He  was  the  foremost  in  every  battallion  and  the  defender  of 
his  portion  of  the  province  against  the  men  of  Bregia  and 
of  Meath.  His  brother's  son,  namely,  Hugh,  the  son  of 
Bryan-na-Moicherghe,  son  of  Bedmond,  son  of  Olaisne,  was 
appointed  his  successor.'  To  Ferret's  Parliament,  of  1585, 
'*  went  McMahon,  Prince  of  Oirgiall,  namely  Bossa,  son  of 
Art,  son  of  Bryan,  son  of  Bedmond,  son  of  Glaisne."  This 
was  the  Chief  who  at  last  deemed  it  policy  to  surrender  to 
the  Crown  the  territory  which  he  had  theretofore  held  by  the 
Irish  law  of  Tanistry,  and  to  receive  back  firom  her  Majesty  a 
re-grant  thereof  to  himself  and  his  heirs  male,  with  remainder 
to  his  brother  Hugh  Boe  McMahon.  Bossa  died  without 
issue,  and  the  Queen  took  occasion  to  break  fidth  with  Hugh; 
when  the  old  inheritance,  the  subject  of  the  aforesaid  sur- 
render and  re-grant,  was  divided  between  the  Marshal  Sir 
Henry  Bagnall  and  Captain  Henslow,  the  latter  being 
appointed  *  Senesohal'  of  the  County.    Down  to  the  days  of 


ART  m'mahon'8  inpantby.  597 

the  aforesdd  Kossa;  the  succession  of  these  Tanists  of 
Monaghan  is  recorded  in  the  AnnaU  of  the  Four  Masters, 
the  elections  being  i^spectiyely  conducted  as  is  there 
shown,  Tnth  the  sanction  of  the  O^Neill  as  lord  paramount: 
Monaghan  was  then  reduced  to  shire  grounds  The  Act  of 
James,  for  the  attainder  of  the  Earl  of  Tyrone  and  his 
abettors,  included  Brian  Oge  Mac  'Mahowne/  'late  of 
Clonleege  in  Uppet  Truagh,  CouMy  of  Monaghan.*  Previous 
to  the  paasing  of  that  measure,  many  of  this  fiumly  had  gone 
down  to  Munstei*  to  co-operate  with  the  Spanish  invaders,  and 
some  on  its  fiulure  had  passed  off  to  Spain.  Sir  William 
Fitz- Williams,  too,  during  his  viceroyalty,  hadj  "  with  good 
wisdom  and  policy,"  as  Sir  John  David  says,  in  a  letter  to 
the  Earl  of  Salisbury  touching  the  Mac  Mahon's  territory, 
'^  divided  the  greatest  part  of  that  country  among  the  natives 
thereof,  except  the  church  lands^  which  he  gave  to  English 
servitors." 

When  the  Plantation  system  was  brought  into  operation, 
such  terror  did  it  awaken  here,  that  no  less  than  thirty-nine  of 
the  sept  felt  necessitated  to  sue  out  licenses  of  pardon  for 
their  protection.  In  1607,  however^  King  James  had  granted 
to  Eiver  Mac  CoUagh  Mac  'Mahoune,'  sundry  lands  and 
chief  rents  in  Monaghan,  under  condition  to  answer  and  serve 
in  all  hosfings  within  that  county;  and,  in  1609,  Iloss,  son  of 
Bryan  Ma«  Mahon ,  had  a  grant  of  some  townlands  within  the 
territory  of  his  ancestors^  on  the  same  condition  of  serving  on 
journeys  and  hostings,  with  horse  and  foot^  well  armed;  as 
had  Patrick  duf,  son  of  Colla  Mac  Mahon,  and  Sir  Bryan, 
son  of  Hugh  oge  Mac  Mahon,  of  other  estates  therein  in  1610. 

A  Keport,  made  to  government  in  the  reign  of  James 

the  First,  states  '  Owen  Mac  Mahon,  bom  in  Ulster,  Arch- 
bishop of  Dublin,  as  then  resident  in  Lovain,  and  having  a 


598  KJISQ  JAMSS'S  TBJSa  ABMT  USX. 

moixdily  stipend  for  his  sopport  from  tlie  Aididnke  of 
Aostria;'  it  does  not  appear  that  he  ever  lived  in  his  provinee. 
Numerous  annals  of  the  obits  of  the  Monaghan  Mac  Mahons, 
as  evidfflooed  by  the  native  chroniclers  and  by  inquisitionB,  is 
necessarily  omitted  from  this  Woric 

The  last  and  most  memorable  cUef  of  Monaghan  was 
Hugh  Mac  Mahon,  who  activdy  co-operated  with  Sir  Phdim 
O'Neill  in  the  great  insontection  of  1641*.  In  conjanction 
with  Connor  Magoire,  Baron  of  Ennisldllen,  he  conspired  in 
1641  to  seize  the  Castle  of  Dublin;  but  the  plot  was  dis- 
covered by  Owen  O'ConoUy,  whereupon  McMahon  and 
Maguire  were  made  prisoners,  transmitted  to  the  Tower  <^ 
London,  and  in  1644  both  were  tried  and  beheaded  at 
TybuiiL  A  state  document,  purporting  to  be  a  Betum  of 
'  andent  Irish  in  the  King  of  Spain's  dominions,'  made  about 
the  year  1622,  names  Oweai  Mac  Mahon,  Archbishop  of 
Dublin,  bred  in  Salamanca,  now  in  Ireland ;  Florence  Conroy, 
Aichbidiop  of  Tuam,  ^entertained  by  his  Majesty  in  the 
States  of  Flanders^'  Vincent  O'Gaia  of  the  order  of  St 
Dominick,  Dan  de  la  Cru2  of  ditto,  with  various  other  Irish 
priests  in  Lisbon,  where  is  ^  Morish  O'Mahon,'  a  secular  priest. 
John  Mac  Mahon  of  Sush,  in  the  County  o£  Dublin,  was  the 
only  obscure  individual  on  the  Boll  of  Attainders  of  1642; 
not  one  of  that  great  name  in  Monaghan  was  projected  for 
the  denunciation.  At  the  Supreme  Council  of  Kilkenny, 
however.  Colonel  Brian  Mac  Mahon,  of  that  stock,  sat  and 
was  consequently,  in  Cromwell's  Act  for  settling  Ireland, 
excepted  from  pardon  for  life  and  estate. 

Besides  the  above  Colonel  and  the  other  officers  in  his 
Begiment,  the  name  was  further  commissioned  in  Lord 
Kenmare's  Infantry,  in  Fitas-James's,  Major-General  Bois- 
seleau's,  the  £arl  of  Antrim's,  Colonel  Charles  O'Biyan's, 


ABT  tt*MAHON*8  INFANTRY.  599 

Colonel  Cormtick  O'Neill's,  Colonel  Oliver  O'Gara's ;  and  in 
the  Earl  of  Clanricarde's,  Bryan  Mahon,  whose  lineage  seems 
derived  from  this  great  sept,  was  a  Lieutenant.  The 
Attainders  of  1691  proscribe  fourteen  Mac  Mahons  of 
Monaghan,  Louth,  Fermanagh,  and  Clare,  respectively.  The 
above  Colonel  Art  Mac  Mahon  was  entitled  ^  oge^^  being  the 
younger  brother  of  Father  Gelasins  Mac  Mahon,  who  was 
then  the  head  of  the  House^  but  who  from  his  clerical 
character  Was  incapable  of  filling  the  duties  of  the  station. 
Colonel  Art  was  King  Jameses  Lord  Lieutenant  for  the 
County  of  Monaghan,  his  Deputy  Lieutenants  ^being  Brian 
and  Hugh  Mao  Mahon,  Esquires,  who  also  represented  that 
county  in  the  Parliament  of  1689.  Hugh  was  the  Captain 
before  marked  in  Fitz-James's  Infitntry)  and  appears  identical 
with  the  Hugh  who  was  afterwards  Lieutenant-Colonel  in 
the  Regiment  of  Charlemont. 

During  the  war  of  the  Revolution  in  Ireland)  the  services 
of  this  Regiment  of  Mac  Mahon  were  principally  directed 
against  the  Williamite  forces  in  Ulster,  relieving  the  fort 
of  Charlemont,  when  besieged  by  Schonberg,  and  in  after- 
wards effecting  the  defeat  of  William,  on  the  occasion  of 
the  first  siege  of  Limerick.  Colonel  Art  was  killed  at  the 
siege  of  Athlone,*  and  on  his  death,  and  the  final  extinction 
of  James's  hopes,  fafther  Gelasius  Mac  Mahon,  the  head  of 
the  sept,  retired  to  the  Continent. 

In  1747  Lieutenant  Mac  Mahon  was  wounded  at  the 
battle  of  Lauffield,  as  was  also  a  Captain  Mac  MahoA  mor- 
tally. Some  few  years  after,  the  ^  Marquis  of  Mac  Mahon,' 
(of  the  Thomond  line)  Colonel  of  a  French  Regiment,  Knight 
of  St.  Lonisi  and  of  the  Am^can  order  of  Cincinnatus, 

♦  Story's  Impartial  Hitiory^  pt.  XL,  p.  108;  (yCfxUaghan's  Green  Book^  ire* 


600  KIMQ  JAMB8*8  nUSH  ABMT  LIST. 

acquitted  himself  with  much  credit  ss  Ambassador  to  the 
United  States  of  America  ;  and  Colonel  Mac  Mahon,  a 
Kmght  of  Malta,  distinguished  himself  in  the  service  of 
France  and  Spain.*  The  Monthly  Chronologer  for  Ireland, 
in  Exshaw's  Magazine  for  1769  (p.  320),  mentions  as  then 
ocouiiing  the  death  of  Mr.  Patrick  Mac  Mahon,  aged  eighty- 
eight  years,  one  of  whose  sons  rose  to  the  dignity  of  a 
Marquis  of  France  and  a  Knight  of  Malta,  while  another 
was  Boman  Catholic  Bishop  of  Killaloe;  nor  must  it  be 
forgotten  that  on  the  recent  storming  of  the  Malakoff,  Mac 
Mahon  was  one  of  the  two  Generals,  to  whom  Marshal 
Pelissier  attributed  the  success  of  that  splendid  adueyement. 
This  gallant  officer  has  more  recently  acquired  a  Marshal's 
baton  and  the  title  of  Duke  of  Magenta,  for  his  gallant 
services  against  the  Austrians,  in  the  Italian  war.  He  is 
claimed  by  the  Mac  Mahons  of  Clare,  as  the  lineal  male 
descendant  of  Terence  Mao  Mahon  the  Lord  of  Cloonderala 
in  that  County^  who,  about  the  middle  of  the  fifteenth 
century,  intermarried  with  a  daughter  of  Maurice  Fitz- 
Gerald,  fourth  Earl  of  Kildare. 


CAPTAIN,  LIEUTENANT,  AND  ENSIGNS 

BRADY. 

The  Mac  Bradys,  sometimes  called  O^Bradys^  are  considered 
by  Mac  Geoghegan  to  have  been  a  branch  of  the  O'CarroUs 
of  Calry  in  Leitrim ;  and  Hardiman  relies  that  the  illustrious 
bard,  Carolan,  was  descended  from  the  same  stock.     They 


*  FenxtrU  Limerick^  pp.  349-50« 


ABT  M'HAHON'S  mPANTBY.  601 

were  widely  established  uiider  the  former  name  oyer  the 
barony  of  Lough  Tee  in  Cavan.  In  1348  died  Donogh 
Mac  Brady,  Chief  of  Kilbride,  in  that  County,  as  did  Donal 
Mac  Brady  the  Chief  In  1378.  The  obits  of  niany  others, 
Chiefs  of  this  Sej[)t,  are  recorded  by  the  Four  Masters ; 
while  the  See  of  Cavan  (Kilmore)  wad  filled  by  a  Mac 
Brady  in  1396,  1421,  1456,  1511,  1600,  1780,  and  1795. 
In  1454  a  new  Cathedral  was  erected  by  Bishop  Andrew 
Mac  Brady  in  this  diocese,  by  reason  of  the  magnificence 
and  splendour  of  which,  the  place  is  said  to  have  taken  the 
name  of  £ill-mor£  ;  no  trace,  however,  of  that  structure 
now  exists.  In  1563  Hugh  Brady,  a  Meath-man  by  birth, 
bom  at  Dunboyne,  and,  previous  to  his  election  to  the 
Prelacy,  Archdeacon  of  Meath,  was  appointed  Bishop  of 
Meath  by  Queen  Elizabeth,  in  twenty  years  after  which  he 
died  at  the  place  of  his  birth^  and  was  buried  in  Its  parish 
church.  During  his  time  another  of  this  name,  Richard 
Brady,  filled  the  see  of  Kilmore  by  the  Pope's  appointment, 
^untU  removed  in  1585  by  Sir  John  Perrot,  Lord  Deputyi 

An  inquisition,  post  moriemj  taken  in  1625,  finds  that 
John,  son  of  Philip  Brady  of  Outeragh,  in  Cavan,  had  died 
seised  of  sundry  lands  therein,  which  he  had  held  of  the 
King  in  free  and  common  soccage,  and  thaf  Hugh  Brady 
was  his  son  and  heir,  then  aged  twenty  years  and  unmarried ; 
while  by  another  similar  inquiry  made  at  Batoath,  near 
Dunboyne,  it  was  found  that  James  Butler,  then  late  Baron 
of  Dunboyne,  had  died  seised  of  the  manor  of  Dunboyne, 
comprising  simdry  lands  and  tofts  with  chiefiies  and  certain 
rents,  amongst  which  were  some  payable  by  Nicholas  Brady. 
Of  those  attainted  in  1642  were  Thomas  Brady,  John  Brady, 
and  John  Brady,  junior,  all  described  as  of  the  County 
Meath.     None  were  left  in  Cavan  seised  of  covetable  estates^ 


602  KIKG  JAMESES  IBI8H  AKMT  LIST. 

bat  the  reoarda  of  the  adjudications,  which  took  place  after 
the  Restoration,  in  favour  of  those  who  had  fought  for  Song 
Charles  in  Ireland,  until  his  decapitation,  and  who  w^^re 
hence  called  '  the  1649  Officers,*  present  the  name  of  a  Lieu- 
tenant Nicholas  Brady.  The  extennination  of  the  s^t  is 
distinctly  avowed,  it  would  seem^  in  his  instance,  in  a  letter 
dated  of  1686,  from  the  Earl  of  Clarendon  to  the  Earl  of 
Rochester,  *  Major  Brady,*  he  writes,  *  being  resolved  to  go 
for  England,  to  cast  himself  at  His  Majesty's  feet,  is  earnest 
for  a  letter  to  you,  which  I  cannot  refuse  him.  He  was 
Major  to^  Colonel  Rusaell,  and  is  one  of  the  unfortunate 
gentlemen  who  are  put  out.  I  never  in  my  life  knew  any 
man  better  spoken  of  by  all  sorts  of  people ;  his  condition 
at  present  is  deplorable,  being,  I  believe,  not  worth  £50 
in  the  world.'  This  Major  Nicholas  was,  according  to  Ware, 
a  descendant  of  Bishop  Hugh,  by  his  wife,  Alice,  daoght^ 
of  Sir  Robert  Weston^  Knight,  Lord  Chancellor  of  Lreland ; 
fuid  he  had  a  son,  another  Nicholas,  who  became  an  eminent 
divine.  Be  Was  bom  in  the  County  of  Cork  in  1659,  studied 
at  Westminster  school,  whence  he  was  elected  a  Ejng's 
scholar  of  Christ  Church,  Oxford.  Having  stayed  tiiiere  four 
years  he  removed  to  Dublin,  where  he  took  his  d^ree  of 
D.D.,  and  became  chaplain  to  the  Duke  of  Ormonde's  Troop 
of  Horse  Guards,  and  to  their  Majesties  King  William  and 
Queen  Mary,  as  likewise  to  Queen  Anne.  He  was  author  of  a 
translation  of  the  first  twenty  psalms  of  David,  long  used  in 
the  English  church,  and  died  in  1726,  in  the  sixty^seventh  year 
of  his  age.  Having  married  Letitia,  daughter  of  the  Right 
Rev.  Dr.  Edward  Synge,  Bishop  of  Cork  and  Cloyne,  he  had 
by  her  several  sons,  the  youngest  of  whom,  Thomas  Brady, 
was  great-grandfather  of  Nicholas  Brady,  who  was  Sheriff 
of  Dublin  in  1821,  at  which  time  he  was  knighted  by  King 


ART  M*MAH0N'B  IK7ANTBT.  603 

Greorge  the  Fourth,  then  visiting  Ireland ;  and  his  brother, 
the  Right  Honourable  Maadere  Brady,  is,  and  has  been  for 
many  years  the  Lord  Chancellor  of  Ireland. 

It  may  be  added  that  in  1746  Michael  Brady,  described  as 
an  Irishman  and  a  Catholic,  was  executed  at  Carlisle,  for 
participating  in  tiie  1745  'affidr'  in  Glengarry's  Regiment. 
About  this  time  and  subsequently  many  officers  of  this  name 
were  distinguished  in  the  military  annals  of  France,  and  yet 
more  in  those  of  Austria,  winning  glories  there,  that  the  laws 
of  England  denied  to  their  attainment  at  home. 

On  Colonel  Edmund  O'Reilly's  In&ntry  of  the  present 
Army  List,  Owen  Brady  held  the  commission  of  Captain, 
with  Thomas  Brady  his  Lieutenant  and  James  Brady  his 
Ensign,  while  another  of  this  name  was  a  Comet  in  Colonel 
Simon  Luttrell's  Dragoons. 


CAPTAIN DUFFY, 

The  O'Dufffs  were  a  Leinster  clan  of  the  same  descent  as 
the  Mac  Murrougfas,  Kings  of  Leinster,  and  the  O'Bymes 
and  O'Toolea,  Chiefs  of  Wicklow*  They  were  originally 
located  in  districts  of  Kildaie  and  Carlow,  and  subsequently 
passed  out  of  the  Pale  to  Cayan  and  Monaghan,  and  to 
Connaught,  as  in  Galway  and  Roscommon.  Daniel  O'Dufiy, 
Archbishop  of  Connaught,  ue.,  of  Tuam,  died  in  1150,  and 
was  buried  at  Cong.  Cele  or  Catholicus  O'Dufiy  governed 
the  same  see  during  forty  years,  and  was  one  of  the  am- 
bassadors who,  in  1175,  concluded  the  Treaty  between 
Roderic  O'Connor  and  Henry  the  Second  at  Oxford ;  he  was 
also  one  of  the  Irish  Prelates  that  attended  the  Council  of 


604  KING  JAMS8*8  IBISH  ABMT  LIST. 

Lateian.  Flanachan  O'Duffy  died  Bishop  of  Elphin  in  1 168, 
and  the  native  Annalists  record  manj  of  the  name  Abbots 
and  Priors. 


tiSi 


LIEUTENANT WARD. 

The  Mac  Wards  were  a  sept  of  Donegal.  In  1478  ^  Mc 
Ward,  t.«.,  Geoffrey  of  Tiroonnell/  say  the  Four  Masters, 
^  died  of  a  plague  which  had  spread  in  Ulster ^  and  it  did  much 
destruction  over  the  entire  province.*  The  same  Annalists 
record  the  death  in  1495  of  the  Mac  Ward  of  Tireonnell,  t.«., 
Hugh ;  and  in  1510  that  of  Owen  roe  Mac  Wardf  the  chief 
poet  of  Tireonnell.  Another  Mac  Ward  of  the  same  Christian 
name  was  Chief  bard  to  the  O'Donnells ;  when  the  Earl  was 
expelled  from  Ulster^  he  followed  the  exiles  to  Rome,  where 
he  wrote  a  beautifiil  elegiac  poem  on  the  princes  of  Tyrone 
and  Tireonnell,  who  had  died  th^re  and  wei^e  buried  on  St. 
Peter's  day,  in  the  Franciscan  Church  of  Monte  Aureo.  On 
the  outlawries  of  1642  Patrick  Ward  of  Lusk  alone  appears; 
those  attunted  in  1691  were  John  Ward  of  Ejltoome,  in 
Westmeath,  md  Lewis  Ward  of  Kiltorragh^  in  Galway. 
The  Soil  of  Adjudications  for  the  '  1649  *  Officers  has  the 
names  of  Major  Robert  Ward,  Captains  Bernard  and  Bichard 
and  Ensign  Nicholas  Ward^ 


MOORS  S  INFANTBT- 


605 


REGIMENTS   OF    INFANTRY. 


COI^OmSI^  CHABLl^S  MOORE  Q. 


The  Colonel 

Lieat.-CoIonel 
John  Bm^e,  Ifajqr. 

Carroll. 

Robert  Wolventon. 
^—  Sherloc]^ 
■  Bnme. 

—  Grace. 

—  Anthony, 
— ^—  Brenan. 
Terence  Dunn, 
Daniel  Dunn. 
John  Connor. 
Joseph  'Bnme.* 
John  Bmerton. 


lAeutmmts, 


Eiuign4f 


Christopher  Barnew^ll.        Jol^  Bourke. 


WlUiam  Dnnne* 


Daniel  Snllivan. 


Longfalin  Moore* 


Alexander  Roche. 


Kicholaa  Sjnnott. 


« —  CantiUoOf  Quarter-Matter, 

Rev. Mullen,  Cheqtlam, 

.^—  SeTmour,  Swrgecn* 


606  XIKG  JAJfES'a  IBISH  ABlCr  LIST. 


COLONEL  CHARLES  MOORE. 

The  page,  on  wUcli  the  Roll  of  this  Regiment  was  drawn 
out  in  the  Trinitj  College  Army  List,  has  been  torn  out; 
but  ten  of  the  above  officers  are  shown  on  a  Report  as  of  those 
of  this  Regiment,  taken  prisoners  at  Ballymore  on  the  8th  of 
June,  1691 ;  and  others  are  supplied  from  the  British  Museum 
List.  The  remainder  of  this  force  was  so  out  up  at  Aughrim, 
that  only  the  Major,  two  Captains,  one  Lieutenant,  and  four 
Ensigns  remained  to  be  committed  by  De  Ginkdl  to  the 

custody  of  the  Dutch   Provost-MarshaL The  name  as 

'  Moore  *  appears  in  six  other  Regiments. 

The  aboTC  Colonel  was  the  only  son  of  the  celebrated 
Rory  O'More  of  1641,  and  as  such  was  Chief  of  the  0*Mores 
of  Leix.  He  married  Margaret,  Lady  Brittas,  second 
daughter  of  the  eighteenth  Lord  Kerry,  by  whom  he  had 
no  issue.  His  sister  Anne  O'More  married  the  grandson  of 
Sir  William  Sarsfield,  head  of  the  Lucan  line  in  the  time 
of  James  the  First,  Le.,  Peter  Sarsfield,  by  whom  she  was  the 
mother  of  two  sons  hereinbefore  alluded  to. 

Colonel  Charles  Moore's  Regiment  was  that,  which  General 
Richard  Hamilton  and  the  Duke  of  Berwick,  after  entering 
Coleraine,  left  there  to  garrison  it;  whereupon  these  two 
Commanders,  uniting  their  forces  with  those  of  Pusignan, 
advanced  to  the  passes  of  the  Finn  and  Foyle  for  the  siege  of 
Derry.*  This  Regiment  was  afterwai-ds  one  of  those  which 
King  James  despatched  to  Sligo  to  retard  the  operations  of  the 
enemy  thereabout.!     On  the  4th  May,  1691,  it  with  four 

*  O'CcUlaghan's  Green  Book,  p.  260.      f  Clarke's  James  II,,  vol,  2,  p.  382. 


MOORS'8  INFANTBT*  607 

other  Regiments  upder  the  oonunand  of  Major  John  Fitz- 
Patrick,  encountered  the  Williamite  foroee  of  Major  Woods 
near  Caatle-Cuffe,  when  it  is  stated  in  a  contemporaneous 
pamphlet  that  three  officers  of  this  Regiment  were  nuide 
prisoners,  viz.,  Lieutenants  WiUiam  Dunn  and  Alexander 
Boch,  and  Ensign  Loughlin  Moore.  Colonel  Charles  was, 
in  two  months  after,  killed  at  the  battle  of  Aughrims  it  is 
said  in  cold  blood.  His  LieutenanlrColonel  and  Major  also 
fell  there.*  On  the  Colonel's  death,  the  representation  of  the 
sept  devolyed  upon  his  brother.  Colonel  Lewis  O'More,  whose 
descendants  are  noticed  hereinafW. 

It  would  be  a  welcome  duty  here  to  traee  the  achieyements 
of  the  noble  Sept  of  O'More  of  Leix,  from  that  ^  Chief  of 
the  Heroes  of  the  Bed  Branch'  who  is  believed  to  have  been 
their  founder;  the  well  authenticated  records  of  their  succes* 
sion  in  the  Captaincy;  the  religious  houses  they  founded  and 
endowed;  the  castles  they  erected  and  maintained  on  the 
verge  of  the  Pale;  the  many  Bishoprics  they  governed;  the 
exploits  of  the  second  Lysagh  O'More,  whose  aid  Edward 
the  Second  sought,  by  an  express  letter  missive,  for  the 
Scottish  war;  the  chivalrous,  unconquerable  independence, 
with  which  the  Sept  maintained  possession  of  a  territory, 
nearly  the  whole  of  the  present  Queen's  County,  on  the 
debateajble  niarehes  of  the  Pale,  even  down  to  1543.  In  that 
year  its  Lord,  an  elder  Bory,  entered  into  a  treaty  with  the 
Lords  Ju,sticest  submitted  to  their  government,  and  consented 
to  hold  his  county  as  a  fief  from  the  Crown  of  England,  at  an 
annual  render  of  twenty  marks,  and  to  the  Lord  Deputy  one 
hundred  heifers,  for  his  nomination  to  the  Captaincy  of  Leix ; 
abo  seventy-two  horsemen  and  one  hundred  foot  to  serve  him 


*  Story'9  Impart.  HisL,  pt.  n.  p.  133. 


608  KING  James's  ibish  asiit  list. 

in  the  goTemment  of  said  country,  and  1,000  other  horse  to 
watch  there  also,  and  to  be  ready  on  CTcry  sadden  expedition 
for  two  days  and  two  nights,  to  attend  with  twenty-four 
gentlemen  on  horsebacky  and  all  his  footmen.  This  snbmis- 
sion  was  followed  by  a  patent  of  natnialization  from  the  King 
to  said  Bory,  wherein  he  was  styled  Captain  of  Leix,  and 
under  this  title  he  held  his  old  territory. 

The  Foot  Masters  relate  how  in  1548  'O'Connor  and 
O'More  went  to  England  along  with  the  lieutenant,  at  the 
mercy  of  the  King;  and  the  King  gave  their  estates  in  Leix 
and  Offidey  to  the  Lieutenant  and  his  kinsmen,  the  Belling- 
hams;  who  built  two  large  courts  namely  the  camp  in  Leix 
(Maryborough)  and  the  Dangan  in  OffiJey  (Philipstown). 
They  then  began  to  let  their  lands  for  rent  to  the  English 
and  Irish,  as  if  they  had  been  their  own  ri^tfol  inheritance, 
after  having  expelled  their  hereditary  hdrs,  O^Connor  and 
O'More,  with  their  fiunilies  and  all  their  kindred.'    Li  1555 
those  dis-seised  chiefs  raised  an  insurrection,  by  reason  of 
which  the  country  was  declared  again  confiscated,  its  name 
changed  to  the  Queen's  County,  and  a  new  plantation  made 
of  it.     According  to  the  tradition  of  the  family,  the  widow  of 
the  above  Bory,  brought  her  two  sons,  then  very  young,  to 
Queen  Elizabeth,  who,  on  her  representation,  sent  Kedagh, 
the  eldest,  to  Cambridge,  with  an  allowance  of  £100  per 
annum;  and  Charles,  the  second,  to  Oxford,  with  an  allow- 
ance of  £60.      The  former  died  in  England,  the  latter, 
returning  to  his  own  country,  and  there  learning  of  the  ruin 
that  had  fidlen  upon  his  house,  preferred  a  petition  to  Her 
Majesty,  in  which  he  utterly  denied  that  his  father  had  fallen 
in  rebellion;   but  that,  on  the  contrary,  he  was  killed  in 
defence  of  the  rights  of  tiie  Crown ;    whereupon  Queen 
Elizabeth  directed  an  inquiry  as  to  the  cause  of  Bory's  death, 


HOOBB^S  INTANTBT.  609 

when  the  jury  found  that  it  was  his  brother  Patrick  O^More, 
who,  with  the  O'Connors  had  entered  Leix  hostilely,  and  that 
Bory  was  killed  by  his  said  brother.  As  however,  in  the 
existing  state  of  the  country,  it  would  be  unsafe  to  dispossess 
so  many  English  families  as  were  planted  upon  it,  the  Queen 
was  fain  to  give  Charles  O'More  some  lands  in  the  Barony  of 
CarKury,  County  Kildare,  theretofore  the  estate  of  -— — 
de  la  Hoyde,  with  the  parish  of  !^ilmainham-wood  and  certain 
rectorial  tithes  in  Heath, 

The  Four  Masters  commemorate,  at  the  close  of  Elizabeth's 
reign,  the  death  of  Anthony,  who  was  the  son  of  Kory  oge^ 
son  of  Kory  caoch  O'More,  slain  by  the  Queen's  people  in  a 
desperate  conflict  in  the  vicinity  of  Leix.  '  His  death  gave  a 
check  to  the  valour  of  the  Irish  of  Leinster  and  of  all  Ireland ; 
he  was  the  sole  rightfUl  heir  to  his  estate,  and  he  gained  the 
government  of  his  patrimony  by  the  power  of  fajs  hand  and 
determined  strength  of  his  heart,  from  the  grasp  of  tyrants 
and  foreigners,  who  were  reducung  its  former  greatness  for  a 
long  time  before  that,  imtil  he  brought  it  under  hb  own 
control  and  government,  and  under  the  management  of  its 
own  officers  and  soldiers,  according  to  the  custom  of  the 
Irish ;  so  that  none  of  the  towns  of  his  patrimony  were  out  of 
his  possesion,  from  one  side  to  the  other,  except  alone  Port- 
leix  (Maryborough).'  *  After  the  fkll  of  Anthony,'  add  the 
Annalists,  ^Leix  was  overrun  by  the  Saxons,  who  began  to 
repair  their  limestone  habitations,  and  to  settle  on  the  ancient 
residences  of  the  race  of  Conall  Ceamaoh,' 

The  family  tradition  in  the  meantime  states,  that  in  1600 
the  aforesaid  Charles,  the  settler  in  Kildare,  married  the 
daughter  of  Walter  Scurlog  of  the  County  Meath,  a  family 
that  was  afterwards  dispossessed  of  their  estates  by  Cromwell. 
The  isstft  of  this  marriage  was  two  sons,  Bory  and  Lewis; 
VOL,  It.  2  b 


610  KING  JAMES'S  IBI8H  ABMT  LIST. 

the  first   married  Jane,    eldest   daughter   of   Sir  Patrick 
Bamewall  of  Turvej,  the  second  took  to  wife  the  daughter  of 

O'Reilly  Chief  of  Qavan.    Rory  appears  to  have  been  in 

easy  oircumstanoes,  and  gave  large  fortunes,  in  the  estimate  of 
money  at  the  time,  to  three  of  his  daughters ;  £1,500  with  one 
to  O'Neill  of  the  Fews,  £1,000  with  another  to  Sir  James 
Me  Donnell,  a  like  sum  to  Patrick  Sarsfield  of  Lucan  with  a 
third,  and  he  designed  to  haye  given  another  £1,000  with  the 
fourth  to  Sir  Henry  CoUey,  had  not  she,  declining  the  match, 
become  a  mm-  The  prominent  position  which  Bory  filled  in 
the  civil  war  of  1641,  is  matter  of  general  histoiy.  His  great 
confederates,  McMahon  and  Maguire,  were  arrested,  tried, 
and  executed ;  Bory ,  who  had  suspected  the  informer,  Owen 
O'Conolly,  changed  his  lodging  in  Dublin  on  the  night  of  the 
22nd  October ;  and,  on  the  next  morning,  by  the  assistance  of 
fiiends,  he  was  rowed  to  Island-bridge,  thence  in  the  night  to 
his  daughter's  in  Lucan,  whence,  after  a  few  hours'  rest,  he 
sought  shelter  within  the  old  soil  of  Balyna:  but,  his  fears 
being  awakened  there,  he  retired  to  O'Donnell's  country; 
Donegal ;  firom  which,  on  a  feeling  of  insecurity,  he  removed 
to  the  Fews,  where  he  remained  until  the  tinie  of  his  dealii, 
which  occurred  after  the  Restoration.  The  outlawry,  con- 
sequent upon  his  resistance  to  the  Government,  deprived  his 
family  of  any  property. 

Lewis,  the  before-mentioned  brother  of  Rory,  was  one  of 
the  Confederate  Catholics  assembled  at  Kilkenny  in  1646; 
and  he,  marrying  Mary  O'Beilly,  as  above,  had  by  her  a  son, 
Anthony,  through  whom  the  line  was  continued  at  Balyna, 
the  andent  patrimony  of  the  O'Mores.  He  married  Anne, 
daughter  of  Alexander  Hope,  Esq.,  of  Mullingar,  and  their 
son  Lewis,  married  about  the  year  1698,  Alicia,  daughter  of 
Con  O'Neil,  soon  after  which  he  succeeded  in  establishing 


moobe's  infantby.  611 

his  claim  for  restoration  to  a  part  of  his  ancestors'  estates. 
James  More,  his  only  son,  married  in  1731  the  only  child  of 
Ambrose  Madden  of  Derryhoran,  in  the  County  of  Gralway. 
This  Lady  brought  to  her  husband  a  fortune  of  £2,500, 
which,  though  considered  large  at  that  time,  was,  in  his 
straitened  circumstances,  inadequate  to  maintain  their  social 
position ;  but,  as  this  James  expresses  himself  in  an  interesting 
manuscript  memoir  of  his  family,  *I  had  the  good  fortune  to 
meet  a  woman,  who  conformed  herself  to  our  ^tuation,  and 
who  was  more  content  to  live  in  the  manner  she  saw  was  con- 
Tenient  for  us.*  Lewis,  the  father  of  James,  died  in  1737,  aged 
63,  as  did  James's  wife  in  1771.  Their  only  son  had  died  at 
tiie  age  of  seven,  and  a  daughter,  Letitia,  alone  remained 
to  preserve  the  line.  In  April,  1751,  she  married  Richard 
O'Ferrall.  *  The  circumstances  of  his  fortune,'  says  the 
memoir,  'which  consisted  of  money,  were  suitable  to  the 
dtuation  of  mine ;  he  was  of  good  family,  and  had  the  reputa^ 
tion  of  being  sensible  and  prudent.'  The  issue  of  this 
marriage  was,  with  four  daughters  (Mrs.  Boulger,  Mrs.  Morris, 
Mrs.  Palles  of  Grouse  Hall,  County  Cavan,  and  Mrs.  Nugent 
of  Killasonna,  County  Longford);  Ambrose,  their  iMir; 
James,  a  Major-General  in  the  Austrian  service,  who  died  in 
1828,  aged  75;  and  Charles,  a  Colonel  in  the  Sardinian 
service,  who  died  in  1831.  Ambrose,  the  eldest  son,  married 
in  1796  Anne,  eldest  daughter  of  John  Bagot  of  Castle 
Bagot,  and  by  her  had  issue  five  sons  and  five  daughters. 
Of  the  male  issue  the  eldest  was  the  Right  Honourable 
Richard  More  O'Ferrall  of  Balyna  House,  who  may  thus  be 
considered  the  present  representative  of  the  ancient  sept  of 
O'Mores. 

It  remains  to  say  that  the  Attainders  of  1691  include  the 
above  Colonel  Charles  '  of  Balyna,'  with  eighteen  others  of 


612  KiKO  jamsb'b  jbjsel  abmt  list. 

the  name,  one  of  whom  was  a  Captain  in  Lord  Kenmare^s 
Infantry.  At  Chichester  House,  Liewis  Moore  claimed,  and 
was  allowed  a  remainder  for  life  in  Balyna  and  other  Kildare 
lands  forfeited  by  Charles  Moore;  Boger  Moore  was  also 
allowed  a  remainder  in  tail  therein,  and  Bridget  Moore  and 
Elizabeth  Bellew,  otherwise  ^oore,  thdr  childrens*  portion 
ihereoff. 

^  Of  offioers  of  this  name  distingoished  on  the  Continent,' 
writes  Mr.  O'Callaghan,  *  Anthony,  a  great  grandson  of 
Colonel  Lewis  O'More,  attiiined  the  rank  of  General  in  the 
Spanish  senrioe.  Another,  Mureghan  O'More,  who  claimed  to 
be  of  the  Leix  stock,  followed  Eling  James  to  Fianoe,  became 
a  Captain  io  the  aeirice  of  the  Duke  of  Lorraine,  and  his 
eldest  son,  Juan  Lewis  O'More,  died  unmarried,  a  lieutenant- 
Colonel  in  the  Imperial  service ;  while  of  O'Mores,  officers  in 
the  Bervioe  o(  France,  the  most  noted  was  James  O'More, 
bom  in  1741,  Lieutenant-Colonel  in  the  Begiment  of  Berwick 
in  1790,  ao4  Chevalier  of  the  Boynl  and  MUitsry  order  of  St. 
Loms. 


CAPTAIN  ROBEBT  WOLVEESTON. 

The  Wolverstons  were  long  located  in  Wicklow.  At  the 
lime  that  tract  was  erected  into  a  county,  James  Wolverston 
claimed  Ballinacor  and  Ballycreery  in  Cool&-ranill  as  his  right 
and  inheritance,  by  a  conveyance  from  a  native  sept.  He  was 
also  possessed  of  *  Stalorgan,'  County  of  Dublin,  under  a 
lease  from  Bichard  Plunket  of  Bathmore.  Of  those  outlawed 
in  1642  were  James  Wolverston,  described  as  of  Bathbisn 
and  Frainstown,  County  of  Wicklow;  Paul  Wolverston  of 


IWiB^^^^^^i^"^^^-^^   ««■  -..,  L  '  ■ 


mqobe's  ikfantbt.  613 

the  same  locality,  with  Christopher  Wolverston  of  Newcastle 
in  said  County.  James,  the  first-named  of  these  attainted 
individuals,  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Patrick  Plunket,  the 
ninth  Lord  Dunsany. 

At  the  Assembly  of  Confederates  in  Kilkenny  in  1647, 
Francis  Wolverston,  styled  of  Newtown,  was  of  the  Commons. 

On  the  present  Army  List,  besides  this  Kobert,  James 

Wolverston  was  a  Quarter-Master  in  Lord  Dongan^s  Dra- 
goons, Kichard  Wolverston  an  Ensign  in  Lord  Galway's 

Begiment  of  Iniantry,  and Wolverston  in  Fitz-James's 

Infantry.  Neither  of  thes^  Christian  names  appear  in  the 
Attainders  of  1691,  but  only  that  of  a  William  •  Wolferston ' 
of  Eaiockedritt,  County  of  Wicklow.  He,  it  appears,  held 
these  lands  under  Sir  Robert  Kennedy,  whose  heir,  Sir 
Richard  Kennedy,  clidmed  and  was  allowed  the  reversion. 
William  forfeited  also  certain  interests  in  Song's  County 
lands,  the  former  estate  of  Robert  Wolverston* 


CAPTAIN ANTHONY- 

Two  of  this  name  were  attainted  in  1691,  Joseph  and  Peter, 
both  described  as  of  the  County  of  Waterford,  where  the  fiunUy 
still  exists. 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  BRUERTON. 

An  Arthur  Bruerton  had,  in  1604,  a  grant  from  the  Crown 
of  the  wardship  of  Edward,  son  and  heir  of  Piers  Butler,  then 
late  of  Fertnegarragh,  in  the  County  of  Kilkenny ;  and  this 
Captain,  it  may  be  presumed,  was  of  his  line. 


614  KiNQ  James's  ibish  abmt  list. 


QUARTER-MASTER  CANTILLON. 

This  name  does  not  appear  upon  the  Roll  of  Attainders,  but 
was  of  the  earliest  introduction  into  Ireland  after  the  English 
Invasion.  William  de  '  Cantelow  *  was  in  1302  summoned  to 
attend  King  Edward  in  his  wars,  as  one  of  the  Fideles  of 
Ireland.  In  1347  Maurice  '  Cauntelowe '  was  appointed  one 
of  the  guardians  of  the  peace  in  Kerry.  The  enrolment  of  a 
deed  of  1441  evidences  the  recognition  of  a  right  to  the 
lordslup  of  Balljheiguey  in  Edmund  son  of  this  Mauiioe 
CantiUon,  the  deed  being  signed  by  inter  cdiaa  Maurice  Bishop 
of  Ardfert,  and  Edmund  Fitz  Eligoth  (McEUigott). 

The  Quarter-Master  here  in  commission  appears  to  have 
followed  Sing  James  to  France,  distinguished  himself  at 
Malplaquet  in  1709,  and  received  the  Cross  of  the  Order  of 
St.  Louis.  The  fiumly  however  continued,  and  it  is  believed 
still  continues,  influential  in  Kerry;  while  at  a  very  recent 
period  in  France  Louis  Philippe  created  Antoine  Sylvain  de 
Cantillon  Baron  of  Ballyheigue,  by  patent  of  1839.  He  had 
a  numerous  issue  by  his  wife,  Marie  de  Leval,  whom  he  had 
married  in  1831. 

It  but  remains  to  add  that  one  of  this  name  was  chaplain 
in  Lord  Kilmallock's  Infantry^ 


BAGNALL  8  VXFJLSTBY. 


615 


BEGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 


COLONEL  DUDLEY  BAQNALL's. 


The  Colonel. 

Junes  Power. 
Lientenant-Colond 

[ Corbet,] 

llAjor. 

GMtSaey, 

Geffiry 'PendergMt.' 

Nicholas  Power. 

John  Meagher. 

DaaklHogan. 

Bichaid  Fanning. 

John  Keating. 

Bryan  O'Biyan. 

Thomas  Pttroell. 

JohnUodare. 

Philip  Dwyer, 
Grenad. 


Lioutcnanti. 

William  Bonrke* 
lliomas  Meara. 


Walter  Pendeigast 
Bichaid  Waddfaig. 
Ednrand  Meagher. 
Bichard  Moiria. 
Sdmond  Connor. 
Bobert^Pendergast.* 
EdmuidBoche. 
Murtogh  O'Biyan. 
John  Dwyer. 
Edmond  Tobin. 


I 


John  Comerford. 
Edward  Butler* 


— — -Bonzke. 
James  Pendeigast 
Edmund  Power. 
Thomas  Meagher. 
William  Hogan. 
Thomas  Batleif* 
Pien  KcMiting. 
DaTid  Boche. 
Edward  Butler. 
Nieholas  PorcelL 
James  Modars. 


Thomas  Dwjer. 
Edmund  Butler. 

.  Doheci^,  Qaarfer-ifaffar. 
.  Tobin^  Surffton, 


616  KING  JAM^'fi  lSLlB^  ABHT  LIST. 


COLONEL  DUDLEY  BAGNALL. 

In  1552,  ^  Baphe  *  Bagenall  was  one  of  the  Privy  Council 
who  then  signed  an  order  to  provide  for  the  preservation  of 
the  Lrish  records*  In  the  following  year  Sir  Nicholas  Bagnall 
had  a  grant  of  the  dissolved  '  College  of  Newry/  In  May, 
1459j  Queen  Elizabeth  directed  instructions  *'  for  recovering 
Lecale,  Newry,  and  Carlingford  from  the  possession  of  the 
Scots,  and  to  recompense  Sir  Nicholas  Bagnall  for  his  interest/' 
At  the  battle  of  the  Blackwater,  of  which  a  very  full 
account  is  given  by  O'Sullivan  bear^  fell  Sir  Henry  Bagnall, 
Marshal  of  Newry,  whom  the  Irish  Government  had 
despatched  to  relieve  Portmore,  on  that  river,  then  besieged 
by  O'Neill.  *  He  fell,'  writes  Fergus  Moryson,  *  valiantly 
fighting  amongst  the  thickest  of  the  rebels,  who,  on  the 
English  being  dismayed  thereby,  obtained  a  great  victory 
agwist  them.  I  term  it  great  since  the  English,  from  their 
first  arrival  in  that  kingdom,  never  had  received  so  great  an 
overthrow.  Thirteen  valiant  Captains  and  1,500  common 
soldiers  (whereof  many  were  of  the  old  companies  which 
served  in  Brittany  under  General  Norris),  were  slain  on  the 
field. — —By  this  victory  the  rebels  got  plenty  of  arms  and 
victuals ;  Tyrone  (O'Neill)  was  among  the  Irish  celebrated  as 

the  deliverer  of  his  country. ^All  Ulster  was  in  arms;  all 

Connaught  revolted,  and  the  rebels  of  Leinster  swarmed  in 
the  Pale:  while  the  English  lay  'in  their  garrisons,  so  &r 
from  assailing  the  rebels,  as  they  rather  lived  in  continual 
fear  to  be  surprised  by  them.' 
In  1602  when  the  Lord  Deputy  of  Munster  thought  he 


m^Kffi^ 


baokall's  infantbt.  617 

might  himself  return  from  that  province,  he  committed  the 
prosecution  of  the  war  there  to  (amongst  other  officers)  Sir 
Samuel  Bagnall;  and  their  acts  in  pursuance  of  this  power 
are  very  fully  given  in  the  Pacata  Hibemia.  Sir  Nicholas 
Bagnall,  after  receiving  the  recompense  above  alluded  to  in 
lands,  assigned  considerable  estates  in  the  County  of  Louth, 
&c.,  to  Viscount  Claneboy,  whereupon  that  nobleman  invited 
his  brothers  (Hamiltons)  from  Scotland,  to  participate  in  the 
advantages  which  his  rank,  property,  and  influence  gave  him 
in  Ireland,  and  five  of  them  came  over  thereupon.* 

In  1605  Arthur  Bagnall,  of  the  Newrie,  settled  the  whole 
manor  of  Newrie,  with  the  advowson  of  churches  thc^in,  the 
castle  of  Bagufia,  the  fishery  of  Olancree,  and  sundry  lands 
in  the  County  Armagh ;  the  manor  of  Omee  and  fishing  of 
the  waters  of  Carlingford,  to  the  use  of  himself  and  his  wife 
Magdalene,  and  the  survivors  for  their  lived,  and,  on  their 
decease,  to  their  heirs  male,  with  ultimate  remainder  to  the 
right  heirs  of  said  Arthur  for  ever.  His  estates^  in  manors, 
advowsons,  fisheries,  mills,  lands j  &c.,  in  those  counties,  as 
well  as  in  those  of  Down  and  Louth,  are  fuUy  set  forth 
in  patents  of  1607  and  1612.  In  the  latter  year  George 
Bagnall  of  Ballymoon  had  a  grant  of  the  entire  Barony  of 
Idrone,  with  all  the  manors^  castles,  lands,  (&o.,  within  its 
precincts,  in  the  County  Carlow;  and  fairs  and  courts 
leet  and  baron.  He  died  in  1625)  leaving  Walter  Bagnall, 
his  son  and  heir,  then  under  age;  while  the  above  Arthur 
Bagnall  died  in  1637,  seised  of  Omee,  Carlingford,  Green- 
Castle,  &c.,  leaving  Nicholas  his  son  and  heir,  then  only  eight 
years  of  age.  Cromwell's  denimciation  of  1652  excepted  the 
last  mentioned  Walter  Bagnall  from  pardon  for  life  and 

♦  UAUorCs  Co.  ofDvbUn,  p.  472. 


618  KING  James's  ibish  abmt  list. 

estate ;  while,  in  the  lAher  Munerum  HibemuE^  \b  preserved  a 
very  interesting  letter  of  pardon,  dated  15th  Febmaiy,  1655, 
purporting  to  be  firom  Cromwell  to  Nicholas  Bagnall,  of 
Green-Castle,  t.^.,  the  son  of  Arthur  of  Newrie,  and  in  many 
of  the  patents  that  were  passed  after  the  Restoration,  of  lands 
in  the  County  of  Carlow,  savings  were  inserted  of  the  rights 
of  Dudley  Bagnall  of  Dunleckney,  and  of  Walter,  his  eldest 
son.  This  Dudley  was  the  above  Colonel ;  he  also  sat  as  the 
representative  for  the  County  of  Carlow,  in  the  Parliament  of 
1689,  and  was  attainted  in  1691,  when  his  son  Walter  claimed 
and  was  allowed  an  estate  for  life  to  himself,  and  a  remainder 
in  tail  male  to  his  issue  in  Dudley's  Carlow  confiscations; 
while  Anne,  said  Dudley's  wife,  claimed  and  was  allowed 
jointure  thereon,  as  were  seven  of  his  children  portions  to  the 
amount  of  £5,000,  with  iiemainders  in  the  lands  as  limited  to 
tiiem. 


[MAJOR  — -  CORBET]. 

This  commission  is  given  on  the  authority  of  the  Appendix 
to  King^8  State  of  the  Protestants.  The  fiunily  name  is  noticed 
antei  at  Lord  Abercom's  Horse^ 


■k« 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  MEAGHER. 

The  O'Meaghers  were  in  old  time  Lords  of  the  territoiy 
now  known  as  the  Barony  of  Ikerrin,  County  of  Tipperary. 
In  1374  King  Edward  granted  £320  to  the  Bishop  of  MeaOi 


bagnall's  infaktbt.  619 

'for  the  peril  of  life  he  had  encountered,  when,  with  men-at- 
arms,  labouring  to  reduce  the  O'Briens  of  Thomond,  the 
Mao  Conmaras,  the  O'Meaghers,'  &c.  The  Four  Masters 
relate  an  invasion  of  their  territory  in  1462,  bj  Mac  William 
(Burke)  of  Clanrickard,  when  Teigue  O'Meagher,  with  his 
adherents  opposed  him;  and  William  Burke,  the  son  of 
Mac  William,  was  slain  by  the  son  of  O'Meagher,  with  the 
cast  of  a  javelin,  by  which  blow  O'Meagher  was  victorious, 
and  the  same  0*Meagher,  Lord  of  Ikerrin,  was,  after  his 
death  succeeded  by  his  son.* 

In  1613  Teigue  0*Meagher  surrendered  to  the  Crown  the 
castle  and  lands  of  Cloghnekeany,  with  the  object  of  obtaining 
a  regrant  thereof  on  new  title.  King  Charles's  declaration 
of  thanks  for  services  beyond  the  seas,  embodied  in  the  Act 
of  Settlen^ent,  includes  the  above  officer,  as  then  styled 
'  Lieutenant  John  Meagher  of  Grange,  County  of  Tipperaiy.' 
Besides  the  three  Meaghers  in  this  B>egiment,  the  name 
stands  commissioned  on  four  others  of  this  Army  List,  viz., 
Sarsfield's  and  Purcell's  Horse,  and  the  Infimtry  Regiments 
of  Thomas  Butler  and  Hevrard  Ozburgh*  In  the  Parliament 
of  1689,  Thady  Meagher,  who  Was  one  of  the  Six  Clerks  in 
Chancery,  eat  as  a  Representative  of  the  Borough  of  Callan ; 
while  in  relation  to  the  above  officer,  Colonel  William 
Wolseley  wrote  on  the  10th  of  August,  1690,  to  Secretary 
Southwell, '  from  the  Camp,  near  Mullingar,*  '*  My  party  had 
an  encounter  with  seven  Tories,  whom  they  sent  into  a  bog 
and  took  two  of  them;  one  was  a  Captain,  his  name  was 
John  Meagher  a  notorious  ring-leader  of  the  rogues,  and  one 
that  had  done  great  mischief  in  that  country.  I  carried  him 
and  his  comrades  to  Maryborough,  and  there — hanged  them. 

...  I  enclose  Captain  Meagher's  confession,  which  was 
taken  upon  him,  by  which  you  may  judge  what  his  life  and 


620  KING  JAMBS'S  IIU8H  ABMT  LIST. 

conversation  ^  has^  been/'  *  The  Attwiders  of  1691  indnde 
five  of  the  name,  in  the  Countiea  of  Dublin,  Eildare,  Kilkenny, 
and  Gralway.  The  Tippenuy  eatate  of  Thady  Meagher  was 
puichaBed  from  the  Commissioners  of  the  Forfeitures,  by 
Joseph  Judkin  of  the  same  County. 


CAPTAIN  RICHABD  FANNING. 

Obteuus's  Map  locates  this  family  in  the  Barony  of  Pobble- 
Brian,  County  of  Limerick ;  and  the  name  is  of  record  in 
Ireland  from  the  time  of  Edward  the  Second;  In  1346 
John  *  Fanyn'  was  One  of  an  influential  Commission  deputed 
to  examine  the  fitness  of  the  guardians  of  the  peaoe^  and  the 
adequacy  of  the  array  in  the  County  Limerick^  and  SimoQ 
*'  Fanyng*  is  of  record,  as  a  landed  proprietor  therein  in  1355* 
In  three  years  after  Hugh  Fannyn  was  iqppoanted  a  guardiaa 
of  the  peace  and  commissioner  of  array  in  Tippeniry.  It 
was  a  name  of  influence  also  in  Kilkenny,  where^  in  1545* 
Henry  the  Eighth  granted  the  fee  of  certain  lands  to  CMiver 
Fannynge,  whose  son  and  heir  died  in  162d,  leaving  Bobert, 
his  son  and  heir,  then  aged  thirty  and  married.  Again,  in 
1590,  died  William  Fannyng,  having  made  a  previous  settle^ 
ment  of  his  estates  there.  Tlie  trui^tees  of  that  settlement 
were  James,  son  of  Thomas  Farayng  of  Ballintaggart,  in 
Tipperary;  Bobert,  son  of  Walter  Fannynge  of  Mohobber, 
and  Richard  Fannynge  of  Ejtppaghintallagarry.  James  was 
the  son  and  heir  of  8iud  William,  the  settler,  but  he,  dying 
in  his  father's  life-time,  William  Fannyng  succeeded    j  his 

"^  Clarke'9  Correspondence.   MSa  T.C.D.,  Lett  63. 


^Fv-    -     mi    1 9-smmmm 


.  .-1 


bagnall's  infantbt.  621 

namesake's  estates.  In  1632  a  Bobert  Fannyng  died  seised 
of  several  lands  in  Kilkenny,  and  leaving  William,  his  brother 
and  heir,  then  aged  thirty-three  and  married. 

The  name  was  more  especially  influential  in  Limerick, 
lutil  the  Munster  war  of  Elizabeth's  time,  Geoffrey  Famiing 
of  Glenagal  and  Patrick  Fanning  of  Limerick  were  of  the 
Confederate  Catholics  at  the  Supreme  Council  of  )-646,  while 
Alderman  Dominick  Fanning  was  one  of  those  to  whom, 
on  the  capitulation  of  Limerick,  the  mercies  of  the  articles 
were  denied.  In  1668  Jeffirey  Fanning  had  a  confirma* 
tory  grant  of  upwards  of  2,000  acres  in  Tipperary,  as 
had  William  Famiing  of  531  }n  Gralway.  Besides  this 
Captain,  William  and  David  Fanning  were  Quarter-Masters 
in  Colonel  Hemy  Lnttrell's  Horse,  On  the  Attainders  of 
1691,  the  only  Fannings  mentioned  are  William  of  Batty- 
rath  County  of  Kilkenny,  and  David  Fanning  of  Ealkenny, 
merchant.  Richard  is  not  on  the  Boll,  nor  are  any  of  the 
Limerick  Fannings;  while  on  the  Establishment  of  1710 
the  name  of  Bobert  Fai^niqg  is  noted  for  an  annual  pension 
of  £10. 


B- 


CAPTAIN  'JOHN  KEATING/ 

'  Ejstyno  *  is  a  name  recorded  in  the  Irish  records  from  the 
time  of  Edward  the  Second.  In  1302  ^  the  Lord*  James  '  de 
Ketyng'  was  one  of  the  Irish  magnates  invited  to  aid  King 
Edward  in  the  Scottish  war,  and  he  was,  in  1310,  summoned 
to  the  Parliament  of  Kilkenny.  In  1355  Nicholas  Ketyng 
was  one  of  the  influential  proprietary  of  the  County  of 
Wexford,  who  elected  its  SheriflT.    In  that  year  the  King's 


622  KIKG  JA3(B8'S  IRISH  ABMT  LIST. 

Escheator  haying,  as  in  right  of  his  office,  on  the  death  of 
Gilbert  de  Bermingham,  Knight,  seised  certain  manors,  &c., 
as  held  by  him  in  capitey  it  was  shown  that  Gilbert  enjoyed 
same  only  in  right  of  his  wife,  Anne  Ketyng,  who  was 
then  stUl  living,  and  the  seisure  was  taken  off  consequently. 
In  three  years  after,  on  the  death  of  Maurice  Fitz-Thomas 
Earl  of  Desmond,  it  was  found  that,  with  other  of  his  estates, 
he  had  died  seised  of  the  manor  of  Sathmaceandan  by  grant 
from  Milo  Ketyng.  In  1424  James  Ketyng  was  appointed 
Sheriff  of  the  Cross-lands  of  Tipperary,  while,  in  the  reign  of 
Edward  the  Fourth,  James  Ketyng  was  Prior  of  the  noble 
house  of  Hospitallers  at  Kilmainham,  and,  as  such,  an  es  officio 
member  of  the  Irish  Parliament. 

In  1567  Queen  Elizabeth  granted  Ballymoyleran  and  other 
lands  in  Meath  to  John  Keatinge,  on  whose  death  they 
descended  to  Kedmond,  his  son  and  heir.  In  the  same  year 
that  Queen  granted  Cooltehenry,  &o.,  to  Walter  Keatinge  in 
tail  mail,  which  estate,  on  his  death,  descended  to  Geoffirey, 
his  son  and  heir.  A  third  grant  of  this  year  was  to  Edmund 
Keatinge,  of  the  fee  of  Coolneryn,  &c.,  and  which,  on  his  death, 
descended  to  his  son  and  heir,  Peter.  In  1582  Bichard 
Keating  had  a  Boyal  grant  of  Graignerossan  and  other  lands 
in  Meath,  inherited  by  his  son  and  heir,  Edward.  In  1608 
James  Keatinge,  as  son  and  heir  of  Michael  of  Baldwinstown, 
had  livery  of  his  estates ;  while,  in  1624,  James  Keatinge,  of 
Busselstown,  in  Wexford,  having  died  without  issue  nude, 
his  only  daughter,  Margaret,  then  the  wife  of  Walter 
Fleming,  acquired  the  inheritance.  In  1629  Oliver,  son  of 
Arthur  Keating,  died  seised  of  the  manor  and  Castle  of 
Kilcowen,  in  Wexford,  his  son  and  heir,  Arthur,  junior, 
being  then  of  full  age  and  married. 

None  of  the  name  appear  on  the  Attainders  of  1642 ;  and 


BAONALL*S  INFAKTBY.  623 

the  Act  of  Settlement  of  1662  provideB  (s.  214)  that  Maurice, 
son  and  heir  of  Edmund  or  Edward  Keating  of  Narraghmore, 
County  of  Kildare,  should  hold  all  and  every  the  manors, 
towns,  and  lands  purchased  in  the  King's  County,  in  trust  for 
his  said  father  from  John  Carroll,  before  the  23rd  of  October, 
1641,  **  if  the  Lord  Lieutenant  and  Couninl  on  hearing  merits 
shall  adjudge  the  same."  This  Maurice  died  in  1683,  and  was 
buried  at  Narraghmore.     *^  He  had  married,"  says  a  funeral 

entry  in  Bermingham  Tower,  "Judith,  daughter  of 

Cocks,  by  whom  he  had  issue  four  sons,  Maurice,  Edmund, 
JbAn,  and  Charles:  and  two  daughters;  Eleanor,  married  to 
Edward  Bolton  of  Brazeel,  and  Catherine,  Said  Maurice 
was  brother  to  John  Keating,  Lord  Chief  Justice  of  Ireland ;" 
and  this  Captain  John  appears  to  have  been  Maurice's  afore- 
said third  son.  His  brother,  Edmund  Keating,  was  a  Lieu- 
tenant in  TyrconneFs  Horse ;  Biohard  Keating  was  a  Quarter- 
Master  in  Colonel  Purcell's;  another  John  an  Ensign  in  Sir 
Maurice  Eustace's  Lifantry,  and  a  fifth  of  this  name  was  a 
Lieutenant  in  Fitz-James's.  In  King  James's  new  Charter 
to  Swords,  the  Chief  Justice  was  one  of  the  Burgesses ;  as 
was  Walter  in  that  to  Wexford,  and  Henry  in  that  to  Water- 
ford.  The  Attainders  of  1691  include  William  Keatinge  of 
Possextown,  County  Meath,  with  ten  others  of  the  name  in 
Meath,  Kildare,  Wexford,  and  Queen's  Coimties.  Off  the 
Possextown  estate  Mary,  the  wife  of  said  William,  claimed 
jointure ;  as  did  their  eldest  son,  Edmund,  a  remainder  in  tail, 
but  the  property  was  sold  discharged  thereof  to  Henry 
Viscount  Sydney. 

The  aforesaid  Chief  Justice  was  the  most  distinguished 
member  of  the  family  of  Narraghmore,  and  had  been  a 
servitor  of  King  James  when  Duke  of  York.  In  1679  he 
was  appointed  Chief  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas  in  Ireland, 


624  XIKO  JAXES'B  IRISH  ABMT  LI8T. 

and  8o  oontinaed  imtal  the  close  of  the  year  1691,  when 
Willian^  and  Mary  anbstitated  T?jne  for  him.  He  married 
the  widow  of  Sir  Richard  Shuoksburgh  of  Downton  House, 
Wiltshire,  who  died  in  1677,  before  his  advancement  to  the 
bench.  In  the  Parliament  of  1689,  this  judge  made  a  bold 
appeal  to  King  James  in  behalf  of  the  purchasers  under  the 
Act  of  Settlement,  and  opposed  the  party  that  would  fain 
effect  its  total  repeal;  while  he  prudently  suggested  that  a 
committee  of  both  houses  of  the  then  sitting  Parliament 
might  be  appointed  to  devise  some  n^edium  course  of  legisla* 
tion,  to  accommodate,  as  nearly  as  possible,  the  claims  of  both 
the  purchasers  and  the  old  proprietors.*  He  was,  in  the 
opinion  of  the  Earl  of  Clarendon,  '^  an  able  and  loyal  judge, 
and  gave  frequent  evidence  of  h|s  temperance  and  discretion, 
as  in  advising  the  withdrawal  of  a  prosecution,  deogned  to  be 
instituted  for  words  spoken  of  James  the  Second  when  Duke 
of  York,  Ac. ;"  see  «lso  of  him  Jhfhig^'a  HUtartf  of  ike  King'i 
Inns^  p.  358, 


^^^F^^'-m'^^ 


CAPTAIN  RICHARD  MANSFIELD. 

^  Tcofs  family,'  says  Sir  Bernard  Burke,  *  ohiims  descent  from 
the  Mansfields  of  Nottinghamshire,  and  the  first  who  settled 
in  Ireland  was,  it  is  asserted,  Sir  Rodolphus  Mansfield, 
Knight-Banneret,  temp.  Henry  Second.  He  received  grants 
of  land  in  the  Counties  of  Armagh,  Deny,  Cork,  Limerick, 
and  Waterford;  a  small  portion  of  that  granted  in  the  last 

county  alone  now  remains,  the  rest  having  been  confiscated  at 

- '  -  -^ 

*  Clarke's  Ja/4  ofJam$8  IL,  ▼.  3,  p.  358. 


BiLONALL'S  INFANTBT.  625 

various  periods.  The  officer  here  in  commiseion  was  of  that 
coanty;  and,  on  his  attainder,  Helena  Mansfield,,  on  behalf 
of  John,  Matthew,  Walter,  James,  and  Thomas  Mansfield, 
the  children  of  said  Bichard  and  Dorothy  his  wife,  claimed 
for  them  remainders  in  tail  sucoessively  in  his  estates ;  while 
she  herself  claimed  a  jointure  thereoff,  as  widow  of 
Walter  Mansfield.  Both  petitions  were,  however,  dismist  as 
cautionary.  Henry  Mansfield,  described  as  of  Bi^ynamul- 
tinagh  in  Waterford,  was  then  also  attainted. 


CAPTAIN  PHILIP  DWYER, 

The  O'Dwyers  were  chiefs  of  Ealnamanagh  in  the  County 
of  Tipperary.  In  Perrot's  Parliament  of  1585,  this  Sept 
was  represented  by  Philip,  the  son  of  Anthony  O'Dwyer. 
In  1608  Darbie  O'Dwyre  had  an  extensive  grant  of  lands 
in  the  County  of  Tipperary^  as  had  Connor,  son  of  Edmund 
O'Dwyer,  of  Ballaghoconick  in  1609,  and  John  ODwyer  in 
1612  for  other  castles,  towns,  lands,  and  chief  rents  therein. 
John's  descendant,  Philip  0*Dwyer  of  Downedrom,  was  one 
of  the  Confederate  Catholics  who  assembled  at  Salkenny  in 
1646 ;  while  Edmund  O^Dwyer,  the  Roman  Cath<^  Bishop 
of  Limerick,  sat  there  as  a  Spiritual  Peer.  He  was,  in  1651, 
excepted  firom  the  benefit  of  the  articles  for  the  capitulation 
of  Limerick,  as  was  also  Philip  Dwyer,  a  priest.  Cromwell's 
Denunciation  of  1652,  relentlessly  hostile  to  die  Confederate 
Catholics,  excepted  from*  pardon  the  aforesaid  PhiHp  of 
Downedrom,  as  also  Owen  O'Dwyer,  both  described  as  of 
Tipperary.  After  the  Restoration,  Edmund  Dwyre  passed 
patent  for  431  acres  in  Clare,  as  did,  in  1684,  Catherine 

VOL.   II.  '28 


626  KISG  tAMBS^B  OUSH  ABUT  IJ8T. 


aod  Pbifip  Dwyie,  fiv  289  odicr  acra  in  die  flune  Coantv; 
while  En^  Cooiiar  01>wjre  vae  oT  tlie  '  1649  *  Offioen. 
There  farther  mppear  on  this  Anoj  List  Thomas  I>w7er, 

a  Comet  in  Gaknojs  Hone;    OT>w7er  n  Qonter- 

Master  in  Ijond  Abereom'a,  and  another  Philip  I>w7er,  a 
Lieutenant  in  Colond  Charies  O^iyan  s  lufiuitry.  The 
only  Dwyer  who  sppean  on  the  AttUDdess  of  1691  is  £d- 
waid,  deKiibed  as  of  Ckmoacken,  Coontj  of  Uppeiaiy, 

merchant. Serenl  of  the  sqit  were  dBoers  in  *  tlie  Insh 

Brigades*  in  Fianoe,  and  one  was  an  Admind  in  the  Snasian 


LIEUTENANT  BICHABD  WADDING. 

This  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  fixwi  the  time  of  £dward 
the  Third,  in  whose  rdgn  Robert  Wadding  held  the  office 
of  Chief  Seigeant  of  the  Coupty  Wexford.  In  1381  Tho- 
mas Waddyng  was  an  Assessor  of  that  County.  Maurice 
Wfldyng  was,  in  1412,  one  of  diose  deputed  to  collect  off 
the  town  of  Wexford  a  gratuity,  voted  to  the  Prior  of  St 
John's  of  Jeruflslem,  for  services ;  about  which  time  David 
Wadyng  was  Sheriff  of  the  same  county.  Ware  mentions  three 
writers  of  the  name,  John,  Peter,  and,  yet  more,  Luke,  *a 
learned  Fmnciscan  friar,  a  voluminous  writer,  and  a  great 
ornament  to  his  country,*  bom  at  Waterford  in  1558.  In 
1594  John  Wadding  was  seised  of  Ballycogley,  &c.,  in 
Wexford,  and  in  1615  John  Wadding  of  Wexfcffd  died 
seised  of  the  Castle  of  Bameton  and  sundry  other  lands 
in  that  county.  William,  his  son  and  heir,  tJien  of  full  age 
and  married,  died  about  the  year  1640,  leaving  two  sons 


60BD0N  O  NEIXiL  S  INFANTBT. 


627 


William  and  John  Wadding.  At  the  Supreme  Council  of 
Ejlkenny  sat  Riehard  Wadding  of  Ballycogly,  and  Thomas 
Wadding  of  Waterford ;  the  former  was  probably  the  above 
Lieutenant.  He  does  not  appear  on  the  Attainders  of  1691 ; 
but  a  John  Wadding  of  his  place,  Ballycogly,  is  upon  it, 
as  is  also  Arthur  '  Waddin*  of  Enniscorthy. 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 


COLOni;l  oobdon  o'neill's. 


CapkuMf 

The  Colonel 

Con  CNeale, 
Lieat-Colon^. 

Henxy  CNeale, 
Major. 

Robert  Stiuirt. 

Arthur  O^JSTeale. 

'Blackan' 

John  O'Neale. 

Hugh  0*Cahaae. 

John  Cahan. 

0*DonnelL 

DonneUy. 

Hagulre.' 

Tarlogh  0*Neale. 


0*Ne«la 


O'Neatt, 


Not  filled, 

when  this  List 

issued, 


Re^.  Anthony  Daly,  Ckaphm, 
.**-  Carberty,  Surffeon. 


SS8  Knro  iaxes's  hush  abut  ijst. 


COLONEL  GORDON  O'NEILL. 

It  would  detract  firom  the  glories  of  this  great  Milesiaii  name 
to  attempt  here  any  summary  of  its  annals  and  achieTements. 
They  alike  abound  on  the  native  chronicles  and  in  later 
histories  and  records;  only  be  it  noticed  that,  when  Edwaid 
the  First  and  Edward  the  Second  invited  the  aid  of  the 
Magnates  of  Ireland  to  ,the  wars  agunst  Scotland,  a  specuJ 
letter  missive  was  on  each  occasion  directed  to  Donald  O'Neill^ 
as  *  Dux  Hibemicorum  de  Tyrowyn  (Tyrone).'  In  1355,  on 
a  rumour  that  Hugh  O'Neill  of  Ulster,  with  a  great  force  of 
Irish,  was  meditating  an  Invasion  of  the  Pale  at  Dundalk, 
while  the  Justidary  was  busied  defending  the  marches  on  the 
south  against  the  O'Bymes,  the  Archbishop  of  Armagh,  with 
the  Bishop  and  Clergy  of  Meath,  were  ordered  to  hasten  to 
parley  with  O'Neill.  In  1387,  say  the  Four  Masters,  'a 
house  of  general  entertunment  and  "support  for  the  learned 
men  of  Ireland  was  founded  at  Armagh  by  Niall  O'Neill, 
King  of  Ulster.  Soon  after,  he,  accompanied  by  the  Chiefs 
of  the  Province,  marched  with  a  great  force  against  the 
English  of  Traghbally  and  Dundalk,  whom  he  brought  under 
subjection  on  that  occasion.'  In  1390  however  it  is  recorded 
that  Edmund  Loundres  got  a  reward  irom  the  Eong,  for  his 
especial  service  in  taking  this  NiaU  O'Neill  prisoner,  who  was 
only  released  from  confinement,  on  giving  up  as  hostages  his 
own  eldest  son  and  two  of  his  nephews.  In  1394,  on  the 
occasion  of  King  Richard's  first  visit  to  Ireland,  O'Neill,  as 
Dynast  of  Ulster,  with  his  subordinate  Chieftains,  O'Hanlon, 


QOBDON  0'NSILL*S  INFANTRY.  629 

Mac  Mahon,  and  othere,  did  homage  and  fealty  to  th|it 
monarch  at  Diogheda.* 

In  1412,  say  the  Masters,  *  Hugh,  son  of  Henry  O'Neill, 
made  his  esci^  from  Dublin,  where  he  had  been  imprisoned 
ten  years,  and  brought  off  seyeral  other  prisoners  along  with 
him;  among  whom  were  the  son  of  Maguire  and  the  son  of 
O'Neill,  namely  his  own  brother's  son ;  and  it  was  on  O'Neill's 
accoimt  he  became  a  hostage.  After  his  escape  the  entire 
province  of  Ulster  was  much  disturbed,  the  English  demand- 
ing O'Neill  to  be  deliyeied  to  them.'  In  1423  'Donel 
O'Neill  and  Niall  O'Donnell,  and  Owen,  the  son  of  Niall, 
marched  with  the  Irish  of  Ulster,  to  attack  the  English* 
They  first  proceeded  to  Dundalk,  to  the  plain  of  Oriel,  to 
Louth  and  thence  to  Meath,  where  they  engaged  in  battle 
with  the  King  of  England's  Viceroy  (the  Earl  of  Ormonde), 
when  the  commander  of  the  Eiiglish  battalions,  with  many 
more  of  their  people,  were  slain;  and  the  Irish  obtained 
immense  booty  in  that  expedition.  They  then  made  peace 
with  the  English,  and  put  Dundalk  and  all  the  surrounding 
country  under  tribute*'  In  the  following  year  however 
Ormonde,  having  been  reinforced  from  England,  gave  the 
army  of  Ulster  a  signal  defeat  In  1452  '  the  O'Neill  (Owen), 
joined  by  Mac  Guire,  attacked  the  English  on  the  plain  of 
Louth,  Sorley  More  Mac  Donnell  of  the  Gulloglasses  was 
also  of  the  allied  force.  He  and  many  others  of  this  army 
were  slain,  but  Henry,  the  son  of  O'Neill,  coming  to  his 
father's  assistance,  a  peace  was  agreed  upon  on  the  payment 
of  erics  (fines)  for  the  dishonour  done  to  O'Neill  and  for  the 
death  of  Mac  Donnell.'  In  the  next  year  the  O'Neills  of 
Claneboy  sustained  at  Ardglas  (in  Down)  a  great  overthrow; 

*  UAUtaiCi  Dr<igheda^  y.  1,  p.  122. 


630  KiKo  James's  isish  abiit  ust. 

with  die  loss  of  fire  kandred  and  twenty  men,  fiom  tbe 
Savages  and  the  Englinh  of  DnUin;  who  were  ^retnnusg 
after  chacing  to  the  Northern  sea  a  Weldi  fleet,  hj  whidi  the 
shippng  of  Dublin  had  been  plundered  and  the  Aichbishf^ 
of  Dablin  taken  prisoner.'  In  1463  Uie  King  of  £n^and 
sent  presents  *  to  the  O'Neill  (f^.»  Heniy  the  s<m  of  Owen)  of 
foriy-ei^t  yards  of  scarlet  doth,  a  diain  of  gold,'  dc,  &c. 

In  1520  when  the  Eozl  of  Surrey  came  over,  as  Liord 
Lieutenant,  to  Irehind,  Con  (sumamed  ^hoecagV)  O'Neill, 
who  had  hj  popular  election  succeeded  his  brother  in  the 
Principality  of  Ulster,  invaded  Meath  with  a  large  but  undi»- 
dplined  force :  Surrey  hastened  to  encounter  him,  but  O'Ndll, 
influenced  by  his  charaoter  and  the  well  known  disdpline  of 
his  forces,  retired  and  despatched  letters  to  adjust  for  pardon 
and  peace.      In  the  following  October  the  Soyal  policy 
directed  that  O'Neill  and  certain  other  Irish  potentates  should 
be  kmghted,  and  the  King  sent  a  collar  of  gold  to  the  former, 
ordering  Surrey  to  prevail  upon  him  to  visit  the  Court,  where 
Henry  hoped  to  introduce  him  to  English  habits.*    A  similar 
policy  prompted  Queen  Elizabeth  to  create  the  great  Ulster 
Chief  (Hugh  O'Neill)  Earl  of  Tyrone,  and  James  the  First 
to  take  under  his  especial  care  the  son  of  this  newly  created 
Earl;  Royal  disbursements  accordingly  appear  on  the  pell 
rolls  of  that  time,  as  *•  for  £51  for  so  much  money  expended 
for  the  apparel,  beddings  and  other  necessaiies,  provided  for 
the  education  and  bringing  up  of  Con  O'Neill;'  another  for 
£20  Ss.  for  his  expenses  for  one  quarter,  at  Eton  Collie, 
&c.,  &c.t 

In  the  last  year  of  the  rdgn  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  Con 
O'Ndll,  the  Ulster  chief,  having  an  affray  with  some  of  the 


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*  UAUorCi  Drogheda,  y.  2,  p.  182.  f  I<1-  P-  210. 


OOBDON  O'Neill's  iktantrt.  631 

Queen's  soldiers  in  Belfast,  an  inquest  uras  ordered  to  be  held 
in  which,  Con,  with  some  of  his  adherents,  was  found  guilty 
of  waging  war  against  her  Majesty;  but,  before  any  grant 
could  be  made  of  his  thereby  confiscated  lands,  the  Queen 
died,  and,  on  the  accession  of  James  of  Scotland,  Montgomery 
laird  of  Braidstane,  applied  to  the  King  for  a  grant  of  half  of 
Con's  lands,  recommending  that  the  other  half  should  be 
given  with  a  free  pardon  to  Con  himself,  in  which  appro- 
priation Mr.  James  Hamilton  was  subsequently  made  a 
participator.  Con  was  the  more  induced  to  accede  to  this 
arrangement,  and  eyen  with  thanks,  as  it  was  insinuated 
that,  from  the  date  of  the  Act  attainting  the  O'Neills  and 
confiscating  their  territories  (11th  Elizabeth)  he  (Con)  was 
but  a  usurper  on  the  rights  of  the  Crown.  Thus  in  1606 
commenced  the  celebrated  Plantation  of  the  O'Neills'  province, 
and  such  is  the  suggestion  of  its  origin,  as  given  in  the 
Montgomery  Manuscripts^  which  are,  as  might  be  expected, 
most  laudatory  of  the  results : — '  By  the  assistance  of  these 
colonists  you  might  see  streets  and  tenements  regularly  set 
out,  and  houses  rising  as  it  were  out  of  the  ground  (like 
Cadmus's  colony)  on  a  sudden,  so  that  these  dwellings  became 
towns  immediatelyi     .     .  Now  every  body  minded  their 

trades  and  the  plough  and  the  spade,  building  and  setting 
fruit  trees,  &c.,  in  orchards  and  gardens,  and  ditching  in  their 
grounds.  The  old  women  spun,  and  the  young  girls  plied 
their  nimble  fingers  at  knitting,  and  every  body  was  imme- 
diately busy.  Now  the  golden,  peaceable  age  was  renewed ; 
no  strife,  contention,  quarrelling,  lawyers,  or  Scottish  or  Irish 
feuds  between  clans  and  families  and  surnames.' 

The  Act  of  1612,  for  the  attainder  of  the  Earl  of  Tyrone, 
included  with  him  Hugh  his  eldest  and  Henry  his  second  son, 
with  Art  oge  son  of  Cormock  O'Ndll,  described  as  late  of 


682  KUfO  JAMKS'S  IB18H  ABICT  LIBT. 

Clogher  in  the  County  of  Tyrone.  In  a  report,  made  aboat 
this  time,  to  the  Irish  Council,  ae  *  of  the  Irish  then  in  the 
King  t>f  Spain's  service  or  dominions,'  Dom  John  O'Neill, 
Earl  of  Tyrone,  Colonel  of  the  Irish  in  Flanders,  is  the  first 
name  recorded;  and  his  is  followed  by  that  of  Dom  Hugh 
O'Donnell,  Earl  of  Tyreonnel,  page  to  the  Infiinta  in  Flan- 
ders; Dom  Dermot  O' Sullivan,  Earl  of  Beerhaven:  Dom 
Eugene  O'Neill,  serving  as  Migor;  Dom  Arthur  O'Neill, 
Captain  Cormock  O'Donnell,  Samuel  MacDonneU,  Owen 
O'Hanlon,  Robert  Davis,  Owen  Carthy;  Dom  Bedmond 
Bourke,  Baron  of  Lettiim ;  Dom  Balthazar  Bourke,  page  of 
the  chamber;  William  Bourke;  Maurish,  Thomas,  and 
Edward  Fitz-Oerald,  Gerald  Mac  Maurish,  and  many  others.* 
The  attainders  of  1642  e^bit  but  four  names,  of  minor 
importance,  in  this  fiimily ;  while  of  the  Confederate  Catholics 
were  Henry  O'NeiU  of  Eilbeg,  Phelim  O'NeiU  of  Morley, 
and  Turlough  of  Ardgonnel.  The  latter  was  brother  to  the 
celebrated  Sir  Phelim  O'Neill,  and  was,  in  Cromwell's  Denun- 
dation  of  1652,  together  with  Hugh  buy  O'Neill,  and  Shane, 
son  of  Brian  O'Neill,  excepted  fix)m  pardon  for  life  and 
estate*  Previous  to  Cromwell's  arrival  in  this  country, 
flourished  Owen  Roe  O'Neill,  perhaps  the  best  General  the 
Irish  ever  had,  and  who,  during  the  dvil  war  of  that  period, 
kept  the  field  at  the  head  of  the  army  of  Ulster  Irish,  fi^om 
July  1642,  the  period  of  his  landing  in  Donegal  from  Flan- 
ders, until  the  6th  of  November,  1649,  the  day  of  his  death 
at  Cloughouter  near  Cavan,  in  the  old  Abbey  of  which  place 
he  was  interred.  When  he  was  seized  with  his  last  illness, 
he  was  on  his  march  to  join  the  Marquess  of  Ormonde  and 

the  Irish  Boyalist  forces  against  Cromwell.    That  junction 

\ 

""  MSS,  m  TVtfL  OolL,  Dttb^  (£  liL  8> 


60BD0N  o'NEIXiL'8  INFAlfTBT.  633 

would  haye  united  the  entire  military  strength  of  Ireland  in 
the  Bojal  causey  and  given  the  adherents  of  that  cause  the 
fairest  prospect  of  repelling  the  invasion  of  Cromwell  and  his 
followers.  His  advice  before  his  death  as  to  the  method  of 
opposing  the  Cromwellians  was  (says  Carte)  *  that  Cromwell 
should  not  be  fought  with  uxdess  upon  great  advantage,  and 
that  he  would  sooner  be  beat  by  passes  and  the  season  of  the 
year,  without'  any  hazard,  than  he  could  by  any  engagement 
in  the  field,  his  army  having  been  hitherto  victorious/  His 
chief  achievement  in  Ireland  was  his  overthrow,  in  June, 
1646,  of  the  Parliamentary  forces  under  Major-General 
Munroe  at  the  celebrated  battle  of  Benburb,  where  the  Irish 
lost  scarcely  300  men  while  their  enemy's  loss  exceeded  as 
many  thousands.  This  Owen  rot  was  grand  nephew  of  the 
before-mentioned  Hugh  O'Neill,  Earl  of  Tyrone,  who  so  long 
waged  war  against  Queen  Elizabeth^  and  who  finally  died  in 
exile  at  Rome  in  1616.* 

The  Declaration  of  Soyal  giatitude^  embodied  in  the  Act 
of  Settlement,  as  *  for  services  beyond  the  seas,'  notices  Con 
O'Neill  of  Ardgonnell  in  Armagh,  and  Captain  John  O'Neill 
of  Carrick,  in  Tipperary;  while  in  1666  Major-General 
Daniel  O'Neill  was  one  of  those  who,  on  the  Bestoration,  was 
adjudged  compensation  as  a  ^1649'  Officer*  In  1687  Sir 
Bryan  O'Neill  was  appointed  a  Justice  of  the  King's  Bench. 

The  name  of  O'Neill  appears  upon  the  present  Army  List 
commanding  in  this  Begiment  with  sundry  subalterns ;  while 
Cormuck  O'Neill  headed  another  of  In&ntry,  as  did  Felix 
O'Neill  and  Sir  Neill  O^Neill  one  of  Dragoons,  before  written 
of,  in  which  were  five  officers  of  the  name.  O'Neills  were 
likewise  commissioned  in  Lord  Abercom's  Horse;  in  Max- 


O'Csllsghsn  in  the  EsodSium  Maoariae^  p.  I8SL  \ 


634  KINO  James's  irish  army  list. 

well*8  and  Lord  Dongaa's  Dragoons;  in  the  Infimtry  Begi- 
ments  of  the  Earl  of  Abtrim,  Sir  John  Fitz-Genddf  Sir 
Michael  Creagh,  Liord  Bellew,  and  lastly,  in  Sarsfield's  fine 
Regiment  of  Horse,  Daniel  O'Neill  was  a  Captain.  In  the 
Parliament  of  Dublin  (1689)  this  Colonel  Gordon  O'Ndll 
was  one  of  the  Bepresentatives  for  the  County  of  Tyrone ;  as 
was  Colonel  Cormuck  for  that  of  Antrim,  and  Colonel  Arthur 
of  Ballygawley  for  tBe  Borough  of  Dusgannon ;  Constantine 
O'Neill  for  the  Borough  of  Armagh ;  Tool  O'Neill  of  Drum- 
navilly.  County  Down^  for  the  borough  of  Killileagh,  and  the 
aforesaid  Daniel  O'Neill  for  that  of  Lisbum;  the  latter  after* 
wards  accompanied  King  James  to  France ;  but,  having  been 
subsequently  pardoned  by  King  William,  and  invited  by  that 
monarch  to  return  and  resiune  the  possession  of  his  estates ; 
he,  in  respect  to  this  Boyal  indulgence,  proceeded  as  far  as 
Calab  on  his  homeward  route,  but  there,  under  severe  visita- 
tions of  sickness,  from  wounds  he  had  received  at  the  Boyne, 
he  died;  and  King  William,  when  informed  of  his  death, 
bestowed  £20,000  on  his  daughter  and  only  child,  as  a  jMrovi- 
sion  on  her  marriage  with  Hugh  O'Beilly  of  Ballinlough. 

The  Infantry  Begiment,  here  under  oonaderation,  was 
wholly  unofficered  on  the  College  Army  List;  An  Appendix 
to  Dr.  King's  State  of  the  Protestants^  names,  as  from  a 
subsequent  Muster  Boll,  Con  O'Neill,  as  its  Lieutenant- 
Colonel,  and  Henry  O'Neill  as  its  Major )  the  other  Captains 
are  copied  from  the  List  preserved  in  the  British  Museum. 
Gordon  O'Neill,  the  Colonel,  son  of  the  celebrated  Sir 
Phelim  O'Neill  of  Eonard  or  Caledon  in  Tyrone,  and  head  of 
the  sept,  was  by  James  the  Second  appointed  Lord  Lieu- 
tenant of  that  county.  In  his  military  service  he,  by  the 
order  of  his  Lieutenant-General,  Bichard  Hamilton,  pro- 
claimed protection  '  for  all  such  as  would  submit  themselves, 


60BD0N  O'NEILL'S  INFANTRY.  635 

lay  down  their  arms,  and  peaceably  live  in  their  own 
dwellings."  His  Re^ment  served  at  Derry,  the  Boyne,  and 
Aughrim;  at  the  latter  engagement,  where  he  ranked  as  a 
Brigadier,  he  was  left  for  dead  on  the  field,  but,  b^ing  recog- 
nised on  the  following  day  by  some  Scotch  officers,  connected 
with  him  through  his  mother  (who  was  of  the  noble  house  of 
Gordon  in  Scotland),  they  had  him  kindly  attended  to  until 
recovered  of  his  wounds.  Afler  gaining  his  liberty  he 
followed  the  Irish  Army  to  the  Continent,  where  he  served 
as  a  Colonel  of  the  Charlemont  Regiment  of  Infantry,  until  it 
was  reformed  in  1698.  While  it  was  in  force  Hugh  Mac 
Mahon  was  its  Lieutenant-Colonel,  and  Edmund  Murphy, 
Major.     Colonel  Gordon  himself  died  in  1704^ 

The  Inquisitions  on  Attainders  of  1691  number  of  this 
name  upwards  of  one  hundred,  including  Bryan  O'Neill  of 
Dublin,  Baronet  (who  was  third  Justice  of  the  King's  Bench) ; 
Henry,  Gordon,  Hugh,  and  Philip  O'Neill,  also  of  Dublin ; 
Arthur  of  Ballygawley,  County  of  Tyrone;  Colnstantine  of 
Armagh ;  Cormuck  of  Broughshane,  County  of  Antrim ;  Daniel 
of  Belfast;  Toole  of  Drominwilly,  County  of  Down;  Arthur 
of  Ballydufi^,  King's  County;  Brian  of  Ballinacor,  County 
of  Wicklow ;  Cam  O'Neill  of  Loughmore,  County  of  Antrim ; 
Gordon  O'Neal  of  Crea,  County  of  Tyrone;  Cormuck  of 
Kilultagh,  Felix,  Michael,  and  Sir  NeiU  of  KiUellagh, 
County  of  Antrim;  Shane  O'Neill  of  Creevecamow,  and 
Murtough  of  Tullylish,  County  of  Down ;  John  of  Pallagh, 
Owen  of  Brenton,  Turlough,  James,  and  Frauds  of  Fintona, 
all  in  the  County  of  Tyrone ;  Paul  and  Phelemy  of  Ballyma- 
cully,  Charles  of  Derrynoose,  and  Terence  of  Aghnagrahan, 
all  in  the  County  of  Armagh,  At  the  Court  of  Chichester 
House  in  1700,  claims  were  preferred  as  attaching  to  the 
confiscations  of  Sir  NeiU  O'Neill,  Baronet,  by  his  widow  and 


636  KING  JAMX8*8  UU8B  ABMY  LIST. 


children^  while  Jane,  Clue,  and  Elizabeth  0*NdU  there 
sought  portionB  off  Mayo  estates  of  Con  O'Neill;  as  did 
Alice  and  Maigaret,  other  daughters  of  Con  by  his  wife 
Honoria  O'Neill,  aliaa  'Mc  DanieV  and  all  their  daims 
were  allowed,  as  chaiged  hj  the^will  of  said  Con,  dated  10th 

of  May,  1684. ^Ellis  O'Neill,  aliaa  Mc    Donnell,  and 

Henry  CNdle  claimed  and  were  allowed  leasehold  interests 
aflfecting  Mayo  lands  of  Henry  O'Neile;  a  second  Ellis 
O'Neill  claimed,  as  administratrix  of  John  O'Neill,  a  charge 
on  other  Mayo  estates  of  Turlough  O'Neill,  but  her  petition 
was  dismist,  while  Jane  Fitz-Maurioe  <diae  O'Neill,  widow, 
his  daughter,  daimed  a  legacy  under  his  will,  as  did  Jane 
O'Neill,  alias  Moore,  his  widow,  a  portion  due  to  their  son, 
Henry  O'Neill,  of  whom  she  was  Administratrix,  and  neither 
of  those  daims  was  allowed^ 


1 


KICHOLAB  BBOWNE*S  IITFAKTRT. 


637 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 

COLONEL  KICH0L4S  BBOWKE'S,  BIB  VALfiNTimB 

BBOWNB*8,  &G. 


The  Colonel. 

George  Trapp, 
Lieateiiaiit-CiJoiieL 

Dtrmott  H«  AnlifR^ 
Major. 

Wmiam  Lomb«z4. 

Ednwnil  FerritflT. 

Darby  Giadj. 

WiUiaxn  Murphy. 

Richard  Bany. 

ArtO"Kdfe.* 

William  'Haas.' 

Jamaa  Fits-Gerald. 

Dudley  Fitz-Gerald. 

Thady  GallaghaiL 


ComeUuB  CaDaghan. 
Daniel  M^Aqliffa. 

JanuB  Cogaikf 

Panoott  KMffhl^. 
Arthur  Kagle. 
John  Browne. 
Mainioe  Murphy. 
Garrett  Bany. 
Art  O'Eeife. 
William  Heaa. 
Edmund  Fit«-Gerald. 
James  Heas. 
Callaghan  Mao<CaIlahane. 


Geoffrey  Donoghue. 
Owen  ^Callahane.* 

ThomaaGold. 

WilUam  Foolna. 
Tdgae  Carty. 
James  Ryordan. 
John  Murphy. 
Patrick  Dermott 
Cornelius  0*Eeif«. 
John  'Hagherin.' 
James  Roche. 
Deimott '  Ryardon.* 
John  M'Callahane. 


Daly,  QuaHtr-MatHvr, 

Bar.  —  Biownib  CSiaplam, 
«— Callanan,  Avyedw. 


638  KCKO  JAMES'S  IBIBH  ABUT  LIST. 


COLONEL  NICHOLAS  BROWNE. 

This  Colonel  was  the  eldest  son  of  Sir  Valentine,  Lord 
Kenmare,  at  whose  Regiment,  ante,  p.  316,  &c.,  the  family  is 
noticed.  He  was  Sheriff  of  the  County  of  Cork  in  1687  and 
1690,  and,  in  the  Parliament  of  1689,  was  one  of  the  Repre- 
sentatives of  the  County  of  Kerry.  In  1664  he  married 
Helen,  daughter  of  Thomas  Brown  of  Hospital,  by  whom  he 
obtained  a  considerable  estate,  which,  with  his  own,  was 
forfeited  by  his  attainder.  The  Crown,  however,  allowed  her 
£400  per  annum  for  her  life.  At  the  Court  of  Claims, 
Catherine  Browne,  as  a  daughter  of  Sir  Valentine,  Lord 
Kenmare,  was  allowed  a  portion  and  maintenance  off  the 
estates  of  this  Colonel  Nicholas  (her  &ther's  son)  in  Kerry 

and  Cork. Whitehall   Browne    and    Obadiah    Browne 

claimed  and  were  allowed  an  estate  for  lives  renewable  for 
ever  in  Kerry  plots,  forfeited  by  said  Nicholas,  then '  Lord 
Kenmare ;  and  John  Browne  for  himself  and  for  Joan  Browne, 
alias  Butler,  his  wife,  claimed  and  was  allowed  a  term  for 
years  in  certain  Kerry  lands  of  Sir  Nicholas  or  Sir  Valentine 
Browne.  Colonel  Nicholas  himself  died  at  Ghent  in  1720, 
leaving  four  daughters  and  one  son,  Valentine,  his  successor, 
but  not  in  the  peerage:  this  title  having  been  of  Jameses 
creation  after  his  abdication,  was  not  recognised;  in  1798, 
however,  Valentine,  his  grandson,  was  created  Baron  of 
Castlerosse  and  Viscount  Kenmare;  in  1800  he  was  advanced 
to  the  Viscounty  of.  Castlerosse  and  Earldom  of  Kenmare, 
and  died  in  1812,  He  mairied  first  a  daughter  of  the  eleventh 
Viscount  Dillon,  by  whom  he  had  no  male  issue,  and  second  a 


NICHOLAB  BSOWNE'd  INPANTBT.  639 

daughter  of  Michael  Aykner,  of  Lyons,  by  whom  he  had,  1, 
Valentine  the  present  Earl  (a  Privy  Councillor,  Lord  Lieutenant 
and  Gustos  Rotulorum  of  Kerry,  and  Colonel  of  the  Kerry 
Militia);  2,  Thomas,  who  married  a  daughter  of  the  late 
Edmund  O'Callaghan,  County  Clare,  by  whom  he  has  a  son 
and  two  daughters.  3,  William,  who  married  a  daughter 
of  the  late  Thomas  Segrave,  Esq.;  and  4,  Michael,  who 
was  wounded  at  Waterloo,  and  died  ii)  1825,  leaving  two 
daughterSr 


LIEUTENANT-COLONEL'  GEORGE  TRAPP. 

Nothing  worthy  of  notice  has  been  discovered  concerning 
this  officer  and  his  family.  Lieutenant  Henry  Trap  is  named 
on  the  Roll  of  Adjudications  for  the  ^  1649'  Officers. 


MAJOR  DERMOTT  MAC  AULIFFE. 

The  Mac  Auliffiss  were  located  In  the  Barony  of  Duhallow, 
County  of  Cork,  where  their  territory  extended  from  the 
river  Alia  to  the  borders  of  Limerick;  their  chief  seat  being 
Castle  Mac  Auliffe,  near  Newmarket.  The  Four  Masters 
record  a  great  victory  obtained  by  the  Mac  Auliffe  in  1535, 
over  a  branch  of  the  Fitz-Geralds.  Li  1612  the  castle, 
with  th6  *'  towns  and  lands  of  Castle  Mac  Auliffe  and  Carrig 
Cadhel,  all  called  by  the  name  of  Clan  Auliffe,  and  parcel 
of  the  estate  of  Melaghlin  Mac  Dermot  Mac  Aidiffe,  late 
of  Castle  Mac  Auliffe,  attainted,''  were  granted  by  King 
James  to   Sir  Thomas  Roper,  a  conmiission  having  been 


640  KiNa  James's  ibish  abmy  list. 

thereupon  directed  in  1614  to  asoertun  its  extent  and  value. 
The  Attainders  of  1642  include  three  Mao  Aulifies,  all  of 
Cork. 
Besides  this  officer  and  Daniel  Mac  Anliflfe,  a  Lieutenant 

herein, ^  Mao  Auliffe  was  a  Captun  in  Lord  Kenmare^s 

In&ntry,  and  Teigue  Mao  Aulifib  a  Lieutenant  in  Colonel 
Boger  Mc  Elligott's.  The  Attobders  of  1696  oontain  the 
names  of  the  above  Dermott,  with  D^s  Mac  Auliffe  of 
Lismaooonan,  County  of  Cork.  The  last  reputed  chief  of  the 
fiunilj,  Michael  Mao  AuUffis,  died  Colonel  of  a  Regiment  in 
Spain,  in  1720. 


CAPTAIN  WILLIAM  LUMBARD. 

This  officer  is  described  in  the  Inquisition  for  his  attainder 
as  '  William  Lumbard,  of  Cork,  merchant,'  The  name  is  of 
record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of  Edward  the  Third,  chiefly 
as  in  Cork  and  Waterford.  By  writ  of  1358,  reciting  that 
John  Lumbard,  citizen  of  Cork,  had  theretofore  received 
from  this  King  the  custody  of  the  Castle  of  Gynes  in  that 
County,  with  thirty  acres  of  land  for  its  maintenance,  at  the 
render  of  a  rose  for  each  of  the  first  two  years,  and  forty 
shillings  per  annum  thenceforth,  but  that  said  lands  were, 
by  reason  as  well  of  Irish  as  of  English  malefiustors  and 
rebels,  wasted  and  profitless,  an  inquiry  was  directed  into 
the  truth  of  the  allegations;  and,  if  so  found,  reimbursement 
to  the  said  John  from  the  treasury  was  ordered.  In  1372 
William  Lumbard  was  Mayor  of  Waterford,  as  John  had 
been  in  a  former  year.  Nicholas  Lumbard  was,  in  1372, 
a  Justice  of  the  Conunon  Pleas.  In  three  years  after  King 
Edward  granted  to  Richard  Savage  of  Waterford  the  custody 


NICHOLAS  BROWKB'8  IKFANTBT.  641 

of  the  lands  of  '  Zanobe'  Lmnbard  in  that  Comity,  deceased, 
to  hold  during  the  minority  of  Isabella,  his  daughter  and 
one  of  his  heiresses.  In  this  latter  year  (1375)  John  Lum- 
bard  was  a  Justice  in  &yte  in  Connaught,  afterwards  a  fiiU 
Justice  in  the  Common  Pleas.  In  1403  he  was  constituted 
the  deputy  of  the  Earl  of  Ormonde,  to  execute  during  his 
absence  the  office  of  Constable  of  Ireland ;  and  he,  togethei^ 
with  that  Earl,  was  empowered  by  Eoyal  writ  to  adjotim 
a  parliament  which  had  been  summoned  to  meet  at  Kilkenny. 
In  1409,  in  consideration  of  his  services,  he  had  a  Royal 
grant  of  premises  in  the  City  of  Waterford. 

One  of  the  name,  Peter  *  Lumbard,'  was  the  Roman  Ca- 
tholic Primate  of  Armagh  in  the  seventeenth  century,  whom 
a  Return  of  1626,  as  to  the  Irish  Ecclesiastics  then  residing 
in  foreign  parts,  states  to  be  sojourning  in  the  King  of  Spain's 
dominions.  Another  Peter  Lombard,  ^a  merchant's  don  of 
Waterford,  educated  at  Westminster  under  the  learned  Cam- 
deSj  and  who  afterwards  studied  at  Lovain,'  was  author 
of  some  divinity  works,  and  of  the  well-known  tteatise,  *De 
Regno  HibemicBy  Sanctorum  Insula^  Commentarius,^  published 
at  Lovain  in  1632  ;*  a  work,  the  tendency  of  whieh  being 
considered  to  revive  andent  animositi^  ftnd  excite  new  dis- 
turbanoes  in  Ireland,  Secretary  Windebank  wrote  in  1633 
to  Lord  Straffi)rd,  the  Lord  Lieutenant,  to  have  suppressed. 
Some  notices  of  it  may  be  seen  in  the  Anthotogia  Sibetniea^ 
vol.  1.  From  the  Corporate  Records  of  Water&rd  it  i^peafs 
that,  from  1377  to  1603,  the  mayoralty  of  that  dty  was  oH 
s^renteen  occasions  filled  by  a  L<mibard;  while  in  Cork, 
John  Lombard  was  MaytSr  in  1380  and  1889,  and  Jsones 
Lombard  in  16^5, 


♦  Wdf^i  Wfiu^^  p.  10*. 

VOL.  II.  2  T 


642  KING  JAMES'S  UOSH  ABMT  LIST. 


CAPTAIN  EDMUND  FERRITER. 

This  was  the  name  of  a  fanuly  long  settled  in  Keny,  and 
conspicuous  in  the  troubles  of  1641.  Piers  Ferriter  was 
subsequently  tnken  prisoner  and  executed  bj  the  Parliamen- 
tary commander,  Brigadier  Nelson,  at  Killamey.* 


CAPTAIN  DABBY  GRADY, 

The  O'Grady  was  a  Sept  located  in  Clare,  and  later  in 
Limerick.  In  the  former  county  their  territory  comprised 
the  present  Barony  of  Lower  TuUagh ;  in  the  latter  they 
possessed  Cam-Fei;adaigh,  now  the  parish  of  Knockaney. 
Gerald  de  Gourcy  O'Grady  is  now,  as  stated  in  Sir  Bernard 
Burke^s  Landed  Gentry  the  representative  of  the  sept.  In 
the  wars  of  Thomond  was  fought,  ip  1151,  the  great 
battle  of  Moin-mpr  (i.^,,  the  great  bog,  lying  between  Cork 
and  the  Blackwater),  where  9,000  Dalcassians  of  Clare  were 
defeated ;  and,  according  to  the  Book  of  Leean,  upwards  of 
7,000  slain^  Amongst  the  chiefs  who  fell,  was  'Anselis 
O'Gtady,  Lord  of  Hy-Caissin,'  mth  five  others  of  his  Sept. 
At  a  more  advanced  period  of  the  sama  long  civU  feud, 
(which  forms  the  subject  of  a  native  chronicle,)  in  1311, 
Donald  O'Grady,  Lord  of  Kinel-Dungaile,  was  slain  ia 
battle ;  and  in  six  years  after  three  of  the  name,  Melaghlin, 

*  Per  Bey.  Arthur  B.  Bowaa,  Tralee. 


NICHOLAS  bbowne's  infaktbt.  643 

Aulaffe,  and  Thomas  O'Grady  were  obliged  to  sue  out 
patents  of  pardon  and  protection.  In  1332  John  '  O^Grada^ 
was  Archbishop  of  Cashel,  as  was  another  John  O'Grada  of 
Tuam  in  1365,  and  yet  a  third,  Bishop  of  Elphin,  in  1405, 
In  1375  the  King,  in  consideration  of  the  fidelity  of  Thomas 
'  O'Grade,'  clerk,  took  bim,  his  men,  his  stock)  estates,  and 
possessions  into  especial  protection,  with  letters  of  safe  con- 
duct in  his  intercourses  with  the  English  lieges  in  Ireland ; 
and,  in  1380,  Donald  O'Grade  was  presei^ted  by  the  Crown 
to  the  Deanery  of  KilMoe. 

A  '  state  of  the  County  Clare,  drawQ  up  at  its  first  plan- 
tation," represents  Edmund  O'Grady  as  then  seised  of  the 
Castles  of  Tomgrane,  Mayno,  Scariff,  and  Truagh ;  and 
Donogh  O'Grady  of  that  of  Cloyne.  In  1677  Managh 
O'Grady  had  a  confirmatory  patent  for  a  small  allotment  in 
the  same  county,  while  the  nan^e  of  LieutenJEmt  Darby  Grady 
appears  on  the  Roll  of  Adjudications  for  '  1649'  Officers.  In 
a  list  of  recommendations  TV^hicfa  Tyrconnel,  by  his  Majesty's 
command,  forwarded  in  1686  to  Colonel  Russell,  the  name 
of  Lieutenant  Edmund  Grady  was  inserted)  as  pne  to  be 
provided  for  in  some  of  the  Regiments  then  being  formed.* 
Three  of  this  name  were  attainte<f  in  1691  in  Clare,  Limerick, 
and  Down,  respectively ;  one  of  whom  appears  to  have  been 
a  Lieutenant  in  Cplonel  Richard  Nugent's  In&ntry, 


■^— ^^— ^ 


CAPTAIN  ART  O'KEEFE. 

This  ancient  sept  derives  its  lineage  from  Aengus,  who  was 
King  of  Munster  at  the  close  of  the  fifth  century,  and  whose 

•  Singer^s  Correspondence  of  Lord  Clarendon^  v.  1,  p.  459. 


644  KING  JAMtiS'S  iBtBH  ABMT  LIST. 

dedcendant  Cathal,  th^  6on  of  i^ngoine,  a  King  of  thftt 
province,  overran  the  plun  of  Bregia  in  709,  and  compelled 
Ferttdl,  son  of  Maoldun,  then  Monarch  of  Ireland,  to  giV6 
him  hostages;  in  consequence  of  which  he  was  looked  upon 
by  his  own  people  as  Sovereign  of  Ireland,  until  his  death  in 
742.  The  writers  of  Northern  Ireland  do  not,  however, 
ackliowledge  him,  but  set  down  in  the  interval  assigned  for 
his  reign,  five  others  as  successive  Etings.  The  Four  Masters 
record  the  death  in  1063  of  Ceallagh  O'Ca^mh,*  and  at  1135 
thej  have  a  notice  of  one  of  those  Unfortunate  engagements  in 
the  County  of  Tipperary,  which  were  the  evil  results  of  sept- 
ship,  in  which  Finguine  O'Citemh,  'lord  of  GlennaUmach, 
(Glanworth  in  Fermoy  Barony)  was  shdn.  In  1161  Hugh 
O'Keefe,  tjamach  (lord)  of  Fermoy  was  filaiu.  During  these 
Centuries,  and  up  to  the  English  Invasion,  this  family  was 
territorially  possessed  of  a  wide  district,  called  from  their 
Settlement  Pobble  O'Ke^fe,  and  extending  over  what  have 
been  since  denominated  the  Baronies  of  Fermoy,  Orrery, 
Kilmord,  icnd  Clongibbons.  By  the  native  annalists  th^y  are 
sometimes  styled  Princes  of  Fermoy,  and  were  hereditary 
Marshals  ai^d  chief  military  leaders  in  Desmond.  In  the 
latter  Capacity,  it  is  recorded  that  Donogh  Mac  Eleffd,  Prince 
of  Fermoy,  commanded  the  Irish  forces  of  Munst^r  in  924 ; 
and  at  thdr  head,  pursuing  the  Danes  into  Ulster,  Obtain^  a 
signal  victory  over  them  at  Dundalk.t 

Subsequently  to  the  Invasion  they  were  narrowed  within 
a  comparatively  small  tracts  extending  from  the  Blackwater 
at  Mill-street  to  near  its  source,  within  which  they  had  castles 
and  estates  at  Drumsicane,  Dhu Aragd,  Dromagh,  Droumtariff, 
Cullin,  AhdUe,  Ballymaquirk,  &c.    In  1336  Richard  Fit^ 


^0'DmM»CiBook6fWglai,^,\&.    ^  StnWs  Hiodry  dfChrk,y,l,p.U. 


KICHOLAS  BBOWK£*8  INFAKTBT.  645 

maurice  was  authorized  to  receive  into  the  Eing*B  peace 
Donald,  son  of  Donald  '  O^Kyff,'  and  his  retainers,  their  goods 
and  chattels,  with  permission  for  them  to  reside  '  in  a  land  of 
peace,'  they  giving  security  for  good  behaviour. 

In  the  autumn  of  1582  the  Earl  of  Desmond  made  an 
incursion  into  Kerry,  with  the  object  of  collecting  spoils  in 
Pobble  O'Keef^*  O'Eeefe  and  his  neighbours  endeavoured 
to  resist  the  aggression,  but  they  were  overpowered,  and 
O'KeefFe  himself,  t.^..  Art  (Arthur),  son  of  Donal,  son  of  Art, 
and  his  son  Art  'Oge,'  were  taken  prisoners,  and  Hugh, 
another  of  his  sons,  was  slain.  The  death  of  old  Art  in  1583, 
and  the  inauguration  of  his  son  Art,  the  younger,  to  the 
chieftaincy,  are  also  commemorated  by  the  Four  Masters. 
Thady  '  O'Keif,'  styled  of  Knockaregan,  was  one  of  the 
numerous  Munster  proprietors,  attainted  for  adhering  to  the 
Earl  of  Desmond.  There  are  of  record  Inquisitions  po9t 
mortem  of  the  reign  of  James  the  First,  taken  on  Donat 
O'Eyeffe  and  Art,  son  of  Donell  O'Eyeffe  in  Cork,  as  is 
another  of  1625,  on  Lucas  O'Kyeffe,  and  one  of  1632  oa 
Donell  son  of  Art  O'Kyeffe,  with  others  on  Art  son  of 
Donell,  and  on  Owen,  Daniel,  and  Art  O'Kyeife.  In  1610 
Sir  Edward  Fits-Gerald,  Knight,  had  a  grant  of  a  castle  and 
lands  in  the  County  of  Cork,  parcel  of  the  estate  of  Teigue 
0' '  Quiefe '  attainted ;  two  years  after  which,  Arthur  O'Keeffe 
of  Dromagh,  in  the  same  county,  jmssed  patent  for  various 
castles,  lands,  tithes,  &c.,  which  were  thereupon  erected  into 
the  mwor  of  Dromagh,  with  markets,  fairs,  courts,  and  tolls. 
'In  1619  he  had  a  further  grant  of  the  manor,  castle,  and 
miU  of  Dunbullog,  with  various  townlands,  the  advowson 
of  the  vicarage,  and  liberty  to  impark  200  acres,  to  create 
tenures,  hold  courts  leet  and  baron,  enjoy  all  waifs  and 
strays,  &c.    The  confiscations  consequent  upon  the  Diamond 


646  KING  JAM£S'S  IRISH   ABHT  LIST. 

war,  and  diose  resulting  from  the  Civil  war  of  1641,  greatly 
despoiled  this  family.  The  Attainders  on  the  latter  occasion 
include  the  names  of  four  of  the  Sept,  viz. :  Cornelius  oge 
0*Eeeffe  of  Cullin,  Keeffe  O'Eeeffe  of  Eilcoleman,  Donogh, 
son  of  Daniel  O'Eeeffe,  and  Donogh  O'Eeeffe  oge^  the  two 
last  being  described  as  of  Dromagh.  The  last  parcel  of  their 
territory,  containing  about  9,000  acres,  and  still  bearing 
testimony  of  its  ancient  proprietary  by  its  designation  of 
*  Pobble  O'Eeeffe,'  remained  in  the  hands  of  the  Crown,  as 
an.  undisposed  forfeiture,  until  a  very  recent  period,  when  it 
was  sold  by  the  Commissioners  of  Woods  and  Forests. 

The  Declaration  of  Royal  gratitude  for  services  beyond 
the  seas,  included  Captain  Daniel  O'Eeeffe  of  Dromagh,  and 
C&ptain  Arthur  O'Eeeffe  of  Glenfriacan,  County  of  Cork. 
It  may  be  reasonably  presumed  that  he  was  the  above  Cap- 
tain  Art.     There  are  likewise  on  this   Army  List  

O'Eeeffe,  a  Captain  in  Sir  John  Fitzgerald's  In&ntry,  Denis, 
Constans,  and  Daniel  O'Eeefe,'  Ensigns  in  Major-General 
Boisseleau's  (the  latter  slain  at  Aughrim),  while  another 
Arthur  Eeefe  was  a  Lieutenant  in  Colonel  John  Barrett's. 
The  Attainders  of  1691  name  this  Arthur,  Manus  his  brother^ 
Edward  O'Eeeffe  of  Dromagh,  Daniel,  son  of  Daniel  Eeeffe, 
Anne  Eeeffe,  and  Cahir  Eeeffe  of  Ballymaquirk,  all  of  the 
Barony  of  Bartymore.  In  1697  Arthur  *  O'Eyffe,'  styling 
himself  late  of  DunboUog,  County  of  Cork,  made  his  will, 
wherein  he  bequeathed  to  his  eldest  son  and  heir,  Daniel, 
all  his  manors,  lands,  &c.,  and  all  and  singular  their  royalties 
in  tail  male,  with  similar  fl;nd  successive  remainders  to  .  .  . 
his  second  son;  Charles  O'Eeeflfe,  his  third  son;  remainder 
to  Arthur  O'Eeeffe,  Counsellor  at  law,  in  tail  male,  with 
divers  remainders  over.  This  will  is  witnessed  by  Conor 
O'Eeeffe,  Owen  *  Eyffe,'  and  Mark  Goold. 


NICHOLAS  BBOWNE*8  INPANTBY.  647 

A  very  interesting  pedigree  of  this  family  has  been  in- 
spected in  aid  of  this  work.  It  was  taken  on  the  oaths  of 
six  members  of  the  Sept  in  February,  1738,  and,  with  the 
affidavits  and  certificate,  and  a  corroborative  declaration 
signed  by  three  of  the  Munster  Chieftains,  the  Mac  Carthy 
More,  the  O' Sullivan  More,  and  the  O'Donovan  More,  was 
duly  proved  and  entered  of  record  in  the  College  of  Arms, 
London.  This  pedigree  traces  the  O'Keeffes  down  to  Arthur 
O'Keeffe,  described  as  of  Lincolii's  Inn,  and  then  living,  and 
declares  him  to  be  '  of  the  branch  and  family  thereof,*  he 
being  evidently  the  remainder-man  in  the  aforesaid  will  of 
Arthur  of  Dunbullog.  This  Roll  of  lineage  was  accom- 
panied by  a  Deed  founding  three  bursarships  at  the  College 
of  Lombard,  in  the  Rue  des  Cannes  in  Paris,  for  rearing 
natives  of  Ireland^  especially  those  of  the  name  of  O^Keeffe, 
to  the  priesthood.  The  endowment  Was  perfected  by  the 
Right  Reverend  Cornelius  O'Keeffe,  Lord  Bishop  of  Lime- 
rick, then  in  Paris,  and  theretofore  Rector  of  the  parish  of 
St.  Chronideu  of  Nantes.  It  bears  date  9th  September, 
1734,  and  therein  his  Lordship  states  himself  '  of  the  family 
of  O'Keeffe  of  Fermoy,'  distinguished  by  their  actions,  their 
alliances,  and  their  estates  (Which  are  mentioned  by  name) ; 
that  Denis  O^KeefFe,  father  of  sidd  Bishop,  was  turned  out 
of  his  inheritance  of '  Dun'  on  the  river  Bride,  by  the  usurper 
Cromwell;  that,  af^r  many  hardships,  he  at  last  settled  at 
Drumkene,  in  the  County  of  Limerick,  where  he  lefl  six 
sons,  Daniel,  Dermot,  Philip,  Donatus,  Luke,  and  this  Cor- 
nelius, the  Bishop."  The  founder  then  prescribed  rules  for 
the  government  of  these  bursarships,  and  provided  funds  for 
their  support. 

In  June,  1743,  the  above-mentioned  Arthur  O'  *  Kyfie,' 
describing  himself  of  Bedford  Row,  London,  devised  all  his 


648  KINO  JAKlfiS'S  IWWL  A^MT  LI6T. 

estates  in  the  ymah  of  Heathfield,  County  of  Sussex,  with 
the  capital  mansion  house,  park,  and  woodlands  there,  to  hia 
wife  Isabella  O'Kyffe,  oUm  0*Keeffe,  for  ever,  and  appointed 
her  his  executrix.  He  died  in  1756,  without  issue,  and  waa 
buried  in  Westminster  Abbey,  where  the  inscription  on  his 
monument  records  his  lineal  descent  from  the  Kings  of  Ire- 
land. EQs  widow,  said  Isabella,  died  in  1761,  directing  her 
body  to  be  buried  near  that  of  her  dear  husband,  in  the  west 
cloisters  of  that  Abbey.  She  devised  Heathfield  to  her  sister 
Mary  Anne  0*Keeffe;  bequeathed  a  considerable  l^acy  to 
her  mother-in«-law,  Mrs.  Anstis  O'Keeffe ;  and  appointed  her 
said  sister  Mary  Anne  her  executrix,  with  a  singular  injunc- 
tion: after  fixing  the  place  of  her  interment  '*  as  near  as  pos- 
sible to  her  late  dearest  husband,  Arthur  O'Keefie,''  she 
added,  '*  put  my  dear  lovers  letters  in  a  bftg  under  my  head  in 
my  coffin,  and  put  mine  to  him  under  my  feet.**  The  widow 
Isabella  died  in  1762,  and  her  sister  Mary  Anne  in  1766  sold 
Heathfield  to  Lieutenant-G^eral  Eliott,  the  hero  of  Gibraltar, 
who  selected  it  to  give  name  to  his  dignity.  Lord  Heathfield. 
Mary  Anne  shortly  ailer  married  Cornelius  0*E^effe  of 
Dublin,  barrister«at-law,  her  first  cousin,  who  represented  the 
borough  of  Fore,  County  Westmeath,  in  Parliament  from 
177G  to  1780,  in  which  latter  year  he  died  without  issue,  his 
wife  survived  him  until  1789,  and  those  two  branches  are  now 
represented  by  his  grand-nephew,  Dixon  Cornelius  O'Keefie, 
of  Dublin,  barrister. 


CAPTAIN  WILLIAM  HEAS. 

This  officer  appears  to  have  been  of  the  Cork  family  of 
O'Hea,  whose  chief  residence  was  at  Aghcinilly  Castlei  on  a 


NICHOLAS  bbowne's  infaktbt.  649 

territory  called  from  them  Pobble  O'Hea.  The  name  was, 
however,  widely  dispersed  over  other  parts  of  Ireland.  In 
1407  Adam  '  O'Hee'  was  Prior  of  the  Great  Hospital,  of  St. 

John,  at   Kilmainham. In  1623  died  Walter   Haye  of 

Comewall,  <&c.,  in  Wexford,  leaving  Robert  his  son  and  heir, 
then  of  full  age  and  married;  and  this  Robert  died  in  1640, 
leaving  Walter  his  son  and  heir,  three  other  sons  and  eight 
daughters.  In  1638  Edward  Hay  died  seised  of  the  manor 
of  Tacumshane  in  said  county,  leaving  another  Robert  his  son 
and  heir,  then  of  full  age  and  married;  accordingly  the  name, 
with  the  alias  of  Hay,  is  on  Ortelius^s  Map  located  in  Wex- 
ford. Of  this  line  was  Nicholas  Hay,  one  of  the  Confederate 
Catholics  at  the  Supreme  Council  of  Kilkenny.  On  the 
Attainders  of  1691  the  only  person  named  is  John  Hay  of 
BaUytrammon,  County  of  Wexford^ 


LIEUTENAJTT  DERMOT  KEAGHLEY. 

The  sept  of  the  0*Keelys  was  located  in  the  County  of  Edl- 
kenny,  whence  two,  Edmund  and  William  Kealy  of  Oowran, 
were  of  the  Confederate  Catholics  at  Kilkenny ;  and  Walter 
'Keily'  was  one  of  the  representatives  of  Gowran  in  the 
Parliament  of  1689;  Lieutenant  Dermot  was,  however,  on 
the  Inquisition  for  his  outlawry,  desmbed  as  of  Knoeknagh- 
shy.  County  of  Cork. 


650 


KIKO  JAMBS  8   IRISH  ABMY   LIST. 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 


SIB  MICHAEL  CREAOHS. 


Captami. 

The  Gplonel. 

John  Power, 
Lieatenant-Colonel. 

Tobias  Bonrke, 
Major. 

Christopher  Jans. 

Richard  Porcell. 

Richard  Dalton. 

Terence  M*DermoU. 

Christopber  Pallas. 

Thomas  Sntton. 

Theobald  Butler. 

Robert  Bellev. 

Patrick 'Ffagan.' 

Edvaid  Warren. 

John  Dowdy 
Grenad. 

PhiUpBoch^ 


{Thomas  Mullen. 
PhiUpBocha. 

Alexis  Laplant 


Arthur  Bryta, 
Bartholomew  Isaac 
Symon  Browne. 
Patrick  Everard. 

{Nicholas  Bellow. 
Oliyer  Nugent. 

{Bernard  Archbold. 
Laurence  Tankard 

Denis  Biyan. 

Peter  Browne. 

John  Croghan. 

Bartholomew  Hadsor. 

{George  Plunket. 
James  Rnssdl. 

Garrett  Nangle. 


Eniigns, 

\ Flunket 

PhelimO*'Keille.' 


Rowland  Eustace. 
James  Fitz-Morris 
James  Ledwich. 
Patrick  M'Dermott. 


} 


Boilrke. 


>  John  Begg. 

Edward  BeUew. 
George 'Kelley.* 
Andrew  Eyerard. 
Nicholas  CaiTolL 


Jolm  Connof. 


Staff  Ofioen. 

Rer. Pagan,  Ckcplak. 

Charles  M*Dermott,  Adjuiani. 
Comelins  Quinnan,  Quarttr-Master. 
Robert  White,  Ckk-myeon. 


SIR  MICHAEL  CBEAOH's  INFANTBY.  651 


COLONEL  SIR  MICHAEL  CREAGH. 

This  family  is  located  on  Ortelius^s  Map  in  the  Barony  of 
Small-County,  County  of  Limerick.  In  1216  John  Russell, 
alias  Creagh,  was  Mayor  of  the  City,  an  office  which  was 
filled  by  his  name  on  thirty  other  occasions,  while  that  of 
high-bailiff  or  sheriff  exhibits  a  succession  of  sixty  Creaghs. 
In  1459  William  Creagh  was  Bishop  of  Limerick;  and  in 
1483  David  Creagh  was  Archbishop  of  Cashel.  About  a 
century  after,  Richard  Creagh  was,  by  the  Pope's  provision, 
promoted  to  the  Primacy  of  Armagh,  as  was  Thomas  Creagh 
to  the  See  of  Ardfert;  all  these  prelates  were  natives  of 
Limerick.  The  latter,  according  to  Harris,  in  his  notes  on 
Ware's  Writers  (p.  97),  died  in  1585  in  the  Tower  of  Lon- 
don, where  he  was  imprisoned  by  the  Government.  In  1639 
Pie«s  son  of  Andrew  Creagh,  was  one  of  the  representatives 
of  Limerick  in  Parliament.  In  Cromwell's  time,  however, 
several  of  the  name  passed  over  to  France,  where  they  found 
sympathy  and  patronage,  on  showing  to  what  ecclesiastical 
dignities  their  kindred  had  been  advanced  before  the  Refor- 
mation. In  1666  Pierce  Creagh,  an  Alderman  of  Limerick, 
had  a  confirmatory  grant  of  2,782  acres  in  Clare,  and  in 
eleven  years  after,  his  son  and  heir,  John,  passed  patent 
for  713,  as  did  Michael  Creagh  for  87,  in  the  same  county. 

This  Colonel,  Sir  Michael,  was  possessed  of  much  property 
in  houses  in  Dublin,  of  which  city  he  was  Lord  Mayor  in 

1688,  and  one  of  its  representatives  in  the  I^arliament  of 

1689.  [His  Regiment  served  at  the  blockade  of  Deny, 
and  against  Marshal   Schonberg  at  Dundalk;  was  at  the 


652  KIK0  JA]CBA*8  IBISH  ABXT  LIST. 

battle  of  the  Boyne,  and  continued  in  the  eervice  until  the 
last  year  of  the  war.]  Sir  Michael  was  himself  attainted 
in  1691,  together  with  William  Creagh  of  Ennis,  merchant. 
The  Clare  estate  <^  the  latter  was  purchased  by  Edmund 
Shuldham  of  Dublin,  while  that  of  Sir  Michael,  which 
consisted  as  before  suggested  of  houses  and  plots  in  that 
city,  was  sold  to  Robert  Warneford  and  Anne  Ormsby. 
Another  Creagh  (Stephen),  who,  it  would  seem,  was  the 
Comet  in  TyrconneFs  Horse,  had  the  benefit  of  the  Article 
of  Limerick. 

One  of  the  Captains  of  Sir  John  Fit^erald's  Begiment 
of  Infimtry  was Creagh. 


CAPTAIN  CHRISTOPHER  JANS. 

James  Jans,  described  as  of  the  Ward,  in  the  County  of 
Dublin,  was  attainted  in  1642.  Nothing  more  has  been 
ascertflined  of  the  &mily;  nor  doea  Captain  Christopher, 
appear  on  the  Inquisitions  of  1691. 


CAPTAIN  CHRISTOPHER  PALLAS. 

This  family  is  of  Lombard  origin,  the  first  of  whom,  that 
settled  in  Ireland,  was  Octavian  de  Palatio,  a  doctor  of  canon 
law,  whom  Pope  Sextus  the  Fourth  appointed  in  1480  Arch- 
bidhop  of  Armagh.  His  register  is  preserved  in  Dr.  Marsh's 
library,  and  his  life  is  given  in  Sir  Janies  Ware's  Bishops^  ^c, 
of  Ireland.    He  was  distinguished  by  the  opposition  he  gave 


BltL  MICHAEL  CR&AQfi*g  l^TXSTAY.  653 

to  the  Lambert  Simnel  delusion,  which  found  &your  with 
BO  iAanj  nobles  of  that  country.  He  died  iii  1513  at  ail 
advanced  age,  and  was  buried  in  Drogheda. 

He  had  been  accompanied  to  Ireland  hj  his  brother 
Andrew  de  Palatio  altos  Palles,  as  he  is  styled  on  his  seal, 
which  is  still  preserved  in  the  family  that  descended  from  him 
as  hereafter  noticed.  Engraved  upon  it  are  his  crest,  arms, 
and  motto.  Settling  in  Dublin  his  sons  became  bankers,  or 
goldsmiths  as  they  were  then  called;  a  line  of  business 
brought  over  fi^m  Lombardy  to  Dublin  and  London.  In 
the  latter  city  they  gave  name  to  Lombard-street,  which 
Continues  to  be  a  principal  seat  of  banking  business  there. 
In  1611  Thomas  Hibbotts  had  a  grant  of  the  custody  of 
(inter  alia)  the  lands,  &c.,  of  John  and  William  '  Pallice,'  sons 
and  heirs  of  Alexander  Pallioe  then  late  of  Dublin;  and 
this  Alexander  had  been  in  1596  one  of  the  Sheriffs  of 
that  dty.  The  Attainders  of  1642  name  William  I^llys  of 
Dublin  and  Andrew  Pailys  of  Collarath,  t\e.,  Cloonenat  in 
Cavan.  Those  of  1691  present  tbd  above  Captain  Chris^ 
topher  with  an  Andrew  Pallace,  junior,  described  as  of  said 
Cloonenat.  Christopher,  after  his  attainder,  was  engaged  in 
the  wars  of  the  Low  Countries,  and  his  son  settled  at  Berlin, 
where  he  became  Professor  of  Surgery  in  the  University. 
The  Professor  had  a  son  Peter-Simon  Pallas,  bom  at  Berlin 
in  1741,  and  who  attained  Considerable  eminenoe  in  the 
literary  world.  The  Empress  Catherine  appointed  him  to  a 
professorship  in  the  Academy  of  St.  Petersburgh,  and  in 
1793  employed  him  to  survey  and  report  ui)on  the  newly 
acquired  territory  of  Southern  Bnssia*  On  his  return  to  St. 
Petersburgh  he  published  his  Travels  over  tliat  country,  a 
translation  of  tirhich,  in  two  quarto  volumes,  Illustrated  with 
on6  hundred  and  twenty-one  plates,  Stockdale  gave  to  the 


654  KINO  JAHSS^B  IRISH  ABMT  LIST. 

public  in  1812.  In  his  Life,  as  given  in  the  Abbi  de  Feller's 
Dietumaire  Historique^  this  Pallas  is  said  to  have  introduced 
the  modem  system  of  geology,  and  in  a  memoir  of  1777  to 
have  laid  down  principles  as  to  the  strata  of  mountains,  which 
have  been  confirmed  by  numerous  subsequent  observations. 
He  was  engaged  by  the  Empress  to  give  lessons  in  Natural 
Philosophy  to  the  Grand  Duke  (afterwards  Emperor)  Alex- 
ander, was  appointed  Counsellor  of  State,  and  decorated  with 
the  order  of  St.  Vladimir.  He  died  at  Berlin  in  1811,  in  two 
years  after  which  Cuvier,  the  celebrated  Naturalist,  delivered 
an  oration  in  his  praise  at  the  French  Institute.  He  had  a 
daughter  who  married  Baron  Wemfield,  and  he  also  left  a 
brother  who  survived  him  at  Berlin, 

Ignatius,  the  son  of  the  Andrew  Pallas,  junior,  above 
mentioned,  by  Jane,  the  daughter  of  Colonel  Ignatius 
Nugent,  fifth  son  of  the  Earl  of  Westmeath,  married  Martiia, 
the  third  daughter  of  Bedniond  !(^qge])t,  of  Carlandstown,  in 
the  same  county,  by  whom  he  had  a  son,  Andrew,  who, 
marrying  Miss  Jane  ]^.eade  of  Dunboyne,  had  issue  by  her 
Christopher  and  James,  who  both  died  s.  p,^  and  a  third  son, 
Andrew,  who  took  to  wife  Eliza  OTerrall  of  Ballyna ;  their 
only  child  Andrew-Christopher,  married  Eleanor  Plunkett, 
by  whom  he  has  had  issue,  Andrew,  Christopher,  and  Jailies 
(the  latter  lately  deceased)  with  two  daughters,  Marcella,  the 
wife  of  Columbus  Drake  of  !Howerston  in  Heath  (a  family 
before  alluded  to),  and  Elizabeth, 


CAPTAIN  JOHN  DOWD. 

The  ancient  sept  of  O'Dowd,  according  to  the  native  annalists, 
derives  its  origin  from  Dathy  the  last  Pagan  King  of  Ireland ; 


8IR  MICHABL  CE£AGH*8  INFAKTBY.  655 

who,  say  these  authorities,  extended  his  oonquests  even  to  the 
Alps,  at  the  foot  of  which  he  was  Idlled  by  a  thunder-bolt. 
His  corpse  was  carried  home,  and  is  said  to  have  been  buried 
in  the  sepulchre  of  the  ancient  monarchs,  called  Belig-na-Bee, 
at  Bath  Croghan,  in  Bosconunon.  From  Dathy  descended 
Fiachra,  from  whom  Tyreragh  (Tyr-Fiachra)  took  its  name, 
and  the  sept  possessed  a  territory  comprising  much  of  the 
Counties  of  Mayo  and  Sligo.  The  annals  of  the  family  are 
very  fully  and  satisfactorily  given  in  Dr.  O'DcnovarCs  Hy 
Fiachra^  as  well  the  succession  of  their  Chie&  as  their 
frequent  promotion  to  sees,  especially  to  that  of  Killala.  At 
the  Assembly  of  Confederate  Catholics  in  Kilkenny  in  1646, 
Edward  O'Dowde  of  Porterstown  and  Thady  O'Dowd  of 
Bosburr  were  of  the  Commons.  Two  others  of  this  sept,  viz., 
James  and  Dayid  O'Dowde  are  stated,  on  an  ancient  family 
pedigree,  to  have  been  Officers  in  King  James's  service.  The 
latter,  who  is  said  to  have  been  upwards  of  seven  feet  high, 
(they  continue  to  be  still  singularly  tall  men)  was  killed 
at  the  Boyne,  while  James,  who  appears  to  have  been  a 
Captain  in  Lord  Clanricarde's  Infentry,  survived  to  dis- 
tinguish himself  at  Athlone,  and  fell  at  Aughrim ;  a  third 
brother,  Thady,  (possibly  the  Confederate  Catholic)  entered 
intb  service  on  the  continent,  obtained  an  order  of  nobility  in 
Venice,  and  died  of  fever  in  France.  Tbe  attainders  of  1696 
include  this  Thady,  described  as  of  *  Sligo,'  with  Charles 
Dowd  of  Grangebeg,  and  Faghery  Dowd  of  Ballyfaghhery. 
The  &mily  was  not  however  wholly  devested  of  territory,  and 
in  January,  1704,  David  O'Dowde  and  Dominick  his  son, 
described  as  of  Mona-conelan  in  the  Barony  of  Ghden,  County 
Mayo,  mortgaged  various  townlands  therein  to  Edward 
Wingfield  of  Scurmore.  Thady,  son  of  this  Dominick,  died 
a  Colonel  in  the  army  of  the  Emperor  Joseph,  after  forty 


656  KINO  lAKBS'S  IRISH  ABMT  UST. 

years*  Bervioe.  He  had  iparried  Antonia  Wipplar,  daughter 
of  a  Oemum  Baron  residing  in  Silesia,  and  his  son  by  her, 
James,  became  the  heir  of  this  House,  and  possessed  of  snch 
of  the  family  estate  as  remained.  He  was  called  *  Baron 
O'Dowda,'  and  died  in  1790  leaving  issue. 


CAPTAIN  PHILIP  EOCHE, 

This  officer,  having  been  decreed  the  benefit  of  f^e  Artiolea 
of  Limerick,  followed  his  Royal  Master  to  France;  but, 
jealous  at  the  treatment  he  recmved  there,  he  quitted  that 
oountry,  and,  after  visiting  a  great  part  of  the  Contuient, 
returned  to  Ireland;  where  being,  as  a  Boman  Catholic, 
incapamtated  from  filling  any  civil  or  military  employment, 
he  turned  his  attention  to  trade ;  and,  after  much  labour  and 
loss,  succeeded  in  establishing  a  manufactory  of  flint  glass  at 
Ballybough,  near  Dublin.* 


•m» 


LIEUTENANT  LAURENCE  TANKARD. 

"IThis  name,  though  of  rare  occurrence,  is  yet  of  record  in 
Ireland  from  the  time  of  Edward  the  First.  Nothing,  how- 
ever, worthy  of  notice,  has  been  discovered  respecting  this 
individual  or  his  &mily. 


I      1     Hi  ■■  I        *         ■■  «      ■«!■«■ 


iTAUon^a  HitL  Co,  DMm,  p.  60. 


SIB  HIGHA£I#  CBBAOH'S  INFANTBT.  657 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  CROGHAN. 

In  1412  Robert  O'Croghan,  clerk,  an  Irishman,  had  license 
to  use  the  English  law,  with  qualifications  to  acquire  lands 
and  ecclesiastical  promotions;  but  nothing  has  b^n  ascer- 
tained to  connect  this  officer  with  the  sept 


LIEUTENANT  BARTHOLOMEW  HADSOR. 

This  name  is  of  Lish  record  firom  the  time  of  Henry  the 
Third,  when,  in  1249,  the  Preceptor  of  the  Hospital  of  St. 
John  of  Jerusalem,  at  Kilma-in^ain^  made  complaint  to  that 
King,  how  Richard  de  '  Haddesore,'  Knight,  and  other 
persons  of  the  Dioceses  of  Armagh,  Derry,  and  Dublin,  had 
greatly  injured  the  Ejiights  Templars  of  that  establishment 
in  the  enjoyment  of  certain  of  their  churches,  their  tithes, 
and  possessions,  and  an  inquiry  was  directed  for  ascertaining 
and  rectifying  his  encroachments.^  In  1373  John  ^  Hadde- 
Bore '  was  summoned  to  a  great  council  in  Dublin ;  in  two 
years  after  which  Milo  Hadesore  was  a  JuBlAce  in  eyre^  and 
subsequently  Sheriff  of  the  County  of  Louth.  In  1430 
William  Hadsor  was  Bishop  of  Meath;  and  in  1460  King 
Edward  gave  to  Thomas  PiUdngton  the  manor  of  Keppock, 
County '  Louth,  theretofore  the  estate  of  John  Haddesore, 
with  all  his  lands,  rents,  and  services  in  Ardee,  Dundalk, 
Barmeath,  Tullyallen,  and  TuUydonnell,  with  the  knights' 

*  UAltarCn  HuL  Co.  DubUn,  p.  606. 
TOL.  II.  2   U 


658  KINO  JAMBS'a  UU8H  ABXT  LIST. 

fees,  courts,  and  warrenB,  to  hold  to  him  in  tail  male  for  ever; 

while  to  the  hosting  of  Taxa  in  1593 Hadsor  of  Keppock 

supplied  one  aroher  on  horseback. 

In  1646  John  Hadsor  of  Eeppock  was  one  of  the  Confe- 
derate Catholics  at  the  Supreme  Council  The  name  does 
not  appear  on  the  AttuQders  of  1691 ;  but,  at  the  Court  of 
Chichester  House  in  1700,  Mary  Madden,  widow  of  Bobert 
Hadsor,  claimed  and  was  allowed  a  dower  off  lands  of  this 
Bartholomew  Hadsor  in  the  County  of  Dublin  ;  while  a 
Bridget  Hadsor  claimed  a  jointure  off  Mayo  lands  of  Bichaid 
B^adsor,  but  her  petition  was  dismist  for  non-prosecution. 
Patrick  HadscM',  of  this  fiimily,  who  had  previous  to  the 
Bevolution  passed  over  to  Spain,  was  one  of  the  executors 
named  in  the  will  of  Hugh  (Balldearg)  0*Donnell,  executed 
at  Madrid  in  1674.  By  that  instrument,  which  was  not 
accessible  when  the  memoir  of  that  fiimily  was  being  drawn 
up,  he  appointed  his  brother  Conal  heir  to  his  house  and 
h  fci^sli^/t^  property,  with  divers  remainders  in  tail  n^e  to  O'Donnek 
'  of  his  kin ;  and,  on  failure  of  all  such,  his  fortune  to  go  to 

found  a  Jesuits'  College  in  Spain  for  educating  Irish  students. 


ENSIGN  JAMES  LEDWICH. 

Eablt  after  the  English  invasion,  Ledwich  was  located  in 
Westmeath,  and  gave  name  to  a  townland  yet  known  as 
Ledwichtown.  In  the  reign  of  Edward  the  First  this  fitunily 
were  liberal  bene&ctors  to  the  then  newly  founded  monastery 
of  Tristemagh,  in  Westmeath,  Adam  de  Ledwich  having 
endowed  it  with  the  churches  of  Lekin,  Lynn,  and  '  Stagh- 
femham,'  Boger  de  Ledwich  with  that  of  Slewin,  &c.,  both 


SIB  MICHAEL  OBSAGH'S  HIFAKTBT.  659 

gmntB  having  ooouired  i^K>ut  the  year  1263.  '  la  1832 
Kicholafl,  son  and  heir  of  Adam  de  Ledwioh,  having  died. 
without  hdrs  nude,  his  estates  were  partitioned  between  his 
four  daughters.  In  1389  James  Ledwych  was  appointed  a 
guardian  of  the  peace  in  the  County  Westmeath,  He  was 
a  son  of  Matthew  Ledwioh,  and  seised  of  sundry  estates  in 
the  County  Carlow.  In  1461  Mac  Greoghegaa  committed 
great  depredations  on  the  Baron  <^  Delvin  and  also  on  the 
Ledwiches,  so  that  he  plundered  the  country  as  &r  as  the 
river  Inny. 

In  1616  Christopher  Ledwiche  died  seised  in  fee  of  a  castle 
and  lands  with  a  fishery  in  the  Inny,  William  his  son  and 
heir  being  then  aged  thirty  and  married.  In  1620  died 
Thomas  I^wich  of  Crokston  in  Meath,  leaving  Richard  his 
son  and  heir  aged  forty  years  and  married;  and  in  1625 
Nicholas  Ledwich  died  seised  in  tail  male  of  BaUyhame, 
with  two  eel  weirs,  which  he  held  under  the  Earl  of  West- 
meath,  subject  to  an  annual  render  of  200  eels;  Peter  his 
son  and  heir  was  aged  forty-five  at  the'  time  of  his  fitther's 
death.  Edward  Ledwich  died  in  1628  seised  of  the  Castles 
of  Ballinlaoh,  Carrick,  &c.,  and  leaving  James  his  son  and 
heir  then  aged  forty  years,  which  James  appears  to  have 
married  a  daughter  of  Lavallin  Nugent  of  Drumcree.  Peter 
Ledwich,  of  Lacken  in  Westmeath,  died  in  1629 :  Richard, 
his  son  and  heir  was  then  aged  forty  and  married,  and  he 
seems  identical  with  a  Richard  Ledwich  styled  of  Clondaliver 
in  the  same  county,  who  is  recorded  to  have  died  in  the 
following  year,  leaving  Thomas  his  son  and  heir,  aged  eight 
years.  In  1640  Maurice,  son  and  heir  of  Richard  Ledwich, 
had  livery  of  certain  estates  of  his  father  at  Baskan  therein. 
In  two  years  after,  Richard  Ledwich  was  attainted  for  the 
part  he  had  taken  in  the  civil  war  of  1641.     His  namesake. 


660  Kma  jambs's  ibish  abkt  list. 

Kicluurd  *  Ledwidge '  of  Knockmoiy,  was  attainted  in  1691, 
as  was  the  above  Enogn  James,  also  spelt  ^  Ledwidge,'  and 
described  as  of  Balljnalack,  Ballyhaine,  and  Killivilla  in  the 
same  county. 


QUARTEE-MASTER  CORNELIUS  QUINNAN. 

NpTHiNO  has  been  ascertained  of  this  officer,  ai|d  the  name 
c^oep  not  appear  on  the  ^-^^^i^^^^r 


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SIB  HEWABD  OXBUBGH's  INFANTBT. 


661 


REGIMENTS  OF  INi^ANTRY. 


COIiONEIi  SIB  HBWABD  OXBUBSH'Si 


Capiaku. 

Ltmtt&umti. 

i^M^Wf. 

The  Colonel 

William  DdgiiL 

tingh  Kelly* 

Edward  Soott, 

Hiigh  llaherti^. 

Walter  JPeechell. 

lieateiuuit-GoloiieL 

Lamence  '  Dtdhmttisr,' 

..^^  I>tOhnnty. 

Majixr. 

Anihoiiy  CtooQ. 

Anthony  CanoIL 

James  CanoU. 

WlUiam  'Dnlabiml^.* 

Denit  ^Dnlahimlyi* 

Pfttriok  Dolahnmty. 

Bdmmid  Dalfi 

Daniel  ^Dnlanj/ 

Bryan  Shaaly. 

Fiaods  Pa^. 

Ignatfais  AiohoEi 

Hngh  MoQoy. 

John  CogfaUa. 

Boger  H^Manns* 

Patiiek  M'Maniia. 

CoDBtaiioe  O'Comutf. 

Cottstaaoe  O^Comior. 

Charles  O'Connor* 

Heniy  Ozbnijg^ 

John  Madden. 

Philip  Ash. 

Myles  CPCanolL 

HvghlCaddeii. 
Kdinimd  Mooney. 

Fhilip  Meagher. 

JohnDnigfaL 

Fhuada  MooD)^. 

Edmnnd  Coe^ilaa* 

Thomas  DowUng 

Owen  Dowling. 

Biyaa  Kelly. 

^ 

OMrfer-Jfoflbr, i  ToUft 

Ckt^km^  BeV. KeDjr. 

• 
• 

662  Knr«  jajheb'b  irish  abmt  list. 


COLONEL  HEWARD  OXBURGH. 

The  fiunilj  of  Oxbargh  Were  possessed  of  Bovin,  and  other 
lands  in  the  Barony  of  Ballybritt,  King*8  County,  at  the  time 
of  the  civil  war  of  1641,  a  Heward  Oxburgh  being  then  the 
possessor;  probably  &ther  of  the  Ctdonel,  who  was  himself 
Sheriff  of  that  county  in  1687,  and  was  one  of  those  who 
represented  it  in  the  Parliament  of  1689;  as  did  Heward 
Oxburgh,  junior,  the  borough  of  Philipstown.  His  relatives, 
John  and  Bichard  Oxburgh,  were,  the  former,  a  Captwi  in 
Colonel  Henry  Luttrell's  Horse,  and  the  latter  a  Lieutenant 
in  Lord  Grahnoy's.  One  of  these  officers  was  wounded  in 
1689,  at  the  Siege  of  Derry.  By  a  Boyal  mandate  of  the 
12th  July,  IB  that  year«  Cokmel  Heward  Oxburgh,  Owen 
Carroll,  Esq.,  Captain  John  Dunn,  Captain  Andnw  Kdly, 
Pierce  Bryan,  Esq.,  and  Thady  Fitz^Patrick,  were  cMstitiited 
Provosts  Marshal  of  the  King's  and  Queen's  Counties ;  with 
powers  to  proceed  according  to  the  course  of  martial  law 
against  robbers,  thieves,  and  tories,  mth  whom,  as  stated, 
these  counties  were  infested.*  Similar  commissions  were  at 
the  same  time  given  to  John  Nugent,  Lieutenant-Colonel 
Thomas  Nugent,  and  Martin  Hore,  for  the  Coimty  of 
Waterford;  and  to  Edmund  Nugent,  James  Nugent,  Con 
G^ghqgan,  and^  Henry  Mayley,  for  that  of  Westmeatii. 
After  the  battle  of  Aughrim  and  before  the  surrender  of 
Limerick,  on  the  9th  of  August,  1691,  ^'  Lieutenant-Colonel 
Oxburgh,"  writes  Story,t  "  with  a  Lieutenant,  their  servants 


•  Harru^s  MSS,  in  Dub.  See.  v.  10,  p.  184. 
t  In^pcaOal  HuL^  part  XL,  p.  103. 


SIR  HEWABD  OXBU&GH'S  tSTAJSTKT.  663 

and  accoutrements,  came  over  to  us  from  the  enemy,  as  also 
did  another  officer  and  eleven  musqueteers,  wiA  their  arms." 
The  AttainderB  of  1691  name  Howard,  Henry,  John, 
Richard,  James,  and  Heward,  junior^  Oxburgh,  all  described 
as  of  Bovin  in  the  King's  County.  The  claims  preferred  at 
Chichester  House  as  affecting  the  estate  of  Colonel  Heward, 
and  which  were  allowed,  were  by  Clare  Ozburgh,  as  his 
widow,  for  a  small  jointure,  and  by  Henry  Oxburgh  for  a 
remainder  in  tail.  The  name  is  to  be  found  in  the  County 
of  Westmeath  at  the  townland  of  Clondeliever,  where  a 
tradition  is  preserved  that  the  above  Henry,  the  tenant  in  tail 
of  Bovin,  succeeded  to  its  possession  (which  may  have  resulted 
from  his  fadiex^s  submisnon  as  above),  but  that,  after  a  short 
enjoyment,  he  emigrated  to  Spain,  where  he  died  Governor 
of  Carthagena;  while  it  Would  seem  that  one  of  his  younger 
brothers  was  the  Colond  Oxburgh,  ^  an  Irish  Catholic,'  who 
so  boldly  participated  in  llie  rash  rising  of  the  Earl  of 
Derwentwater  in  1715. 


*Jia 


LIEUT?ENANT-COLONEL  EDWARD  SCOTT. 

This  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of  £dward 
the  Third.  In  1381  John  Scott  i^as  one  of  those  leading 
proprietors  in  the  County  of  Cork,  who  was  selected  to  assess 
and  apportion  a  hosting  thereon;  and  in  the  same  year  he 
was  constituted  a  Juatics  in  eyre*  In  1666  Thomas  Scott 
had  a  conjfirmatory  grant  of  3,243  acres  in  Wexford,  as  had 
Agnes,  relict  of  Bichard  Scott,  and  Samuel,  their  son  and 
heir,  of  another  allotment  there. 
The  officer  here  brought  to  notice  had  served  King  Charles 


664  KINO  /AMBS'S  rU8H  ABXT  LIST. 

beyond  the  seas  dmiog  his  exfle  Pending  the  siege  of 
Deny,  he,  inih  a  detachment  of  Horse  and  Foot,  -was  left 
by  Brigadier  Sntherland,  with  the  object  of  securing  his 
retreat  to  Omagh,  in  the  church  and  graveyard  of  Beltorbety 
which  were  slightly  fortified;  the  small  force  was  however 
compelled  to  surrender  to  the  Enniskilleners**  This  officer 
was  soon  after  distinguished  by  his  defence  of  Kinsale, 
which  he  maintained  for  twenty  days  against  the  assaoltB  of 
Churchill,  afterwards  the  great  Duke  of  Marlborough.  '*  He 
hoped  in  vain  to  be  relieved  by  the  Duke  of  Berwick;  but 
at  length  when  he  saw  no  likelihood  of  succour,  and  that 
the  walls  were  all  battered  about  his  ears,  more  than  two 
parts  of  the  garrison  having  been  cut  ofi^  he  surrendered 
the  {dace  upon  veiy  h(mourable  conditions  (his  lady  riding 
out  in  her  coach  upon  the  breach),  and  himself  came  to 
Limerid:  to  give  the  Duke  an  account  of  his  defence  of 
the  town.**!  "The  garrison,  being  about  1,200  men,  had 
liberty  to  march  out  with  thdir  arms  and  baggage,  having 
a  party  assigned  to  conduct  ihem  to  Limerick.**^  He  waa 
attainted  in  1691,  as  Edward  Scott  of  Dublin  and  Ejnsale, 
Knight;  while  another  Edward,  and  a  Frauds  Scott,  de- 
scribed as  of  Easky,  County  of  Sligo,  were  then  also  outlawed. 
The  names  of  Ensign  Robert  and  Quarter-Master  Walter 
Scott  appear  on  the  BoU  of  Adjudications  for  the  '  1649 ' 
Officers. 

*  (/(Maghan's  Green  Book^  pp.  267-8. 
t  (/CaUaghan's  Mac  Exdd.^  pp.  82«8.         %  Xdeoi,  p.  S95« 


SIB  HBWABD  OXBUBOH'S  INFANTBT.  665 


MAJOR  LAURENCE  DULHUNTY. 

In  Lord  GWmoy'e  Horae,  Anthony  Dulhunty  was  a  Comet, 
and  another  Liaurence  Dolhunty  was  a  Lieutenant  in  Sir 
Neill  0'Nall*8  Dragoons.  A  Lieutenant  Patrick  'Dalla- 
chanty'  was  one  of  the  officers  llianked  in  the  Act  of 
Settlement  for  services  beyond  the  seas. 


^ 


CAPTAIN  ALEXANDER  CALLANAN. 

Thb  O'Callanans,  located  in  the  County  of  Galway,  are 
mentioned  by  O'FIaherty  as  hereditary  physidans.  Amongst 
the  venerable  monuments  of  Meelick  in  that  County,  one 
commemorates  the  burial  place  of  Terence  Callanan  and  his 
wife  Johanna,  otherwise   Shiel,  erected  in  1645.     On  the 

Attainders  of  1696,  stands  alone  Callanan  of  Cloour 

b^gan.  -^^^^-^  Callanan  was  a  Lieutenant  in  Colonel  Max- 
well's Dragoons ;  and  the  Rev.  — ' —  Callanane  was  Chaplain 
to  Colonel  John  Barrett's  Regiment  of  Infimtry. 


CAPTAIN  EDWARD  MOONEY. 

Thb  Mooneys  were  a  Sept  of  the  Queen's  County,  one  of 
whom,  Thomas  *  O'Money,'  chaplain,  ^  of  the  Irish  naticm«' 
obtained  in  1434  a  license  to  use  BngBrii  lair. 


KnO  JAMESES  IMM8BL  AXKT  LIST. 


CAPTAIN  THOMAS  DOWUNG. 

The  O^DowfingB  are  ako  mentioned  as  a  Sept  of  die  Queen** 
County.  They  were,  howerer,  alao  located  in  other  oooniieB, 
as  shown  by  the  Tnqniidtions  on  attainden.  Tboee  of  1642 
hare  three  of  the  name;  these  of  1691  have  Daniel  Dowfing 
of  Tniahman,  County  of  Cork  (who  was  an  Knmgn  in  Colond 
Boger  Mac  EDigot^s  Infimtry),  and  William  Doiding  of 
Kilkenny. 


LIEUTENANT  WILLIAM  DUIGIN. 

Thb  (TDoigiDB  were  an  andeBt  Septof  the  County  of  Ckre, 
Lords  of  Mointer-Coidoohtaidhf  a  distriet  in  tiie  Baronj  of 
Tnlfaigh;  and  may  possibly  have  been  identieal  with  the 
O'DugKOBj  one  of  whom,  John  mare  ODagan,  died  in  1372, 
the  well-knawB  aathor  of  that  Topoffrapky  of  Irdani  whidi 
is  so  often  cited  in  the  notes  to  the  recently  pnUished 
editions  of  the  Fcwr  Masters.  These  amialists  mention  the 
death  of  Bidiard  (TDogan  in  1379,  *  a  worthy  sooeessor  to 
the  professorship  of  Hy-Maine.*  In  ten  years  after  Dionysiiia 
ODowgan  was  presented  by  the  Crown  to  a  vicarage  in  the 
Diocese  of  Limerick ;  and  in  1392  David  O'Dowgan  had 
license  for  himsdf  and  lus  issne  to  use  the  Englidi  law. 

In  1682  Denis  Dnggan  of  Archerstown,  in  the  QueoEi^s 
Comity,  had  a  grant  of  210  acres  therein.  The  Attainders 
of  1691  name  Matthew  *Dwigin'  of  Dunamase,  Qaeea*s 
Comity ;  John  '  Dwigin*  of  Ballydufl^  King's  County ;  and 


SIR  HEWARD  OXBtTBOH*8  INFAlTrBT.  667 

WUtiam  *  Ehrigin'  of  Palace,  cl^rk.  Notwithstanding  tha 
eodfiSiaatioal  description  of  this  latter  individual,  he  would 
Man  to  be  identical  with  the  above  Lieutenant. 


LIEUTENANT  DANIEL  •  DULLANY/ 

Tsrs  0T)eIaay8  are  on  Ortelius's  Map  spread  over  the  Barony 
of  Ballybritt,  King's  County.  They  were  also  in  the  Barony 
of  Upper  Ossory  in  the  Queen's,  asid  likewise  in  Kilkenny. 
Felix  O'Pidlany  suooeeded  to  the  See  of  Ossory  in  1178. 
A  '  Captain  William  DnUany'  is  included  in  the  dedamtion 
of  Boyal  gratitude  (1662),  but  nothing  has  been  ascertained 

worthy  of  notice  concerning  this  Daniel.    The  Reverend  •* 

Delany  was  chaplain  to  Colonel  Purcell^s  Begiment  of  Horse. 


ENSIGN  WALTER  PEECfiELL. 
Nothing  known  of  him  or  his  fiEonily  at  this  period. 


ENSIGN  PHILIP  ASH. 

This  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  reign  of  Edward 
the  Third,  when,  and  for  years  after,  it  was  of  tenure  in 
Drogheda,  Louth,  and  Cavan. 

In  1626  Thomas  'Ashe,'  Knight,  died,  seised  in  fee  of 
the  manor  of  Dromsyle  in  the  latter  county,  leaving  his 


668  KIKO  JAKBS'S  nagH  asmt  ust. 


neplieir  his  heir,  Le. Aahe,  son  and  lieir  of  Nkholas 

Ashe,  (e$iA  Thomafl's  brother),  then  aged  aeventeen  yean. 
In  1670  Eliabeth,  xdict  of  Ediraid  Aah  of  London,  had 
a  grant  of  about  1,000  acres  m  Upperaxy,  with  remainderB 
after  her  life  interest  to  th^  heirs.  In  1677  Moses  and 
Maij  Ashe,  his  wife,  passed  patent  fixr  hnds  in  Glaze. 
Manj  of  the  name  were  attainted  in  1642  and  1691,  but 
nothing  has  been  ascertained  of  this  En^n  Philip,  or  his 
^In  King  William's  parliament  of  1695,  Thomas 


Ashe  sat  as  one  of  the  representatives  of  the  borough  of 
Swords,  and  in  the  man/b  year  St  Greoige  Ashe  was  appointed 
Bishop  of  Cloyne,  6om  which  see  he  was  in  two  yean  after 
translated  to  Clogher,  and  in  1716  to  Deny. 


DOMINICK  BBOWNE'S  INFANTRY. 


669 


EEGIMENTS  OP  INPANTKT. 


COl^NEL  DOMINICK  BB0WN£*8. 


CqpAMM. 

nMGdoneL 

—  Lynch, 
Lientaumt-GolenaL 

Le  Sr.  MoDtgouge^ 
Major. 

Gfogory  F^reDchf 

Peter  ^LlndL' 

Matthew  French. 

Fnmdt  Marth). 

Dermot  Connor. 

Jamee  D*Arcy. 

Andrew  *Nowland.' 

Andrew  *Atye.* 

Christopher  ^Ffrench.' 

Fanagh  CDonneO, 
Gnmad- 

Andzew  Biownci 
Sod  Captain. 


Heniy  Bnownew 


mchtdas  French. 
Valentine  *BUcke.' 
pondnick  Lynch* 
Andrew  Browne. 
MaUohy  O^Connor, 
Frands  Darcy. 
Matthew  Lynch. 
William  Bouke. 
John  Han. 


{ 


Hngh  O'DoonelL 
Bone  ODoniieD. 


JohnBodUn. 


FT 


Gregory  Jt^ce, 
PbOip  Moriri** 
Patrick  <Ffrench.* 
Thomas  Lfnchf 
Toriongh  O'Connor 
F.  Dan^. 
William  Skenftt 
Thomas  *Atye.' 
Dominick  French. 


ChapUm,  Bey.  Henry  Brown^. 


670  KOX^  JAKfiS'B  lEISH  ▲BMT  USX. 


COLONEL  DOMINICK  BROWNE. 

STEPH19V  Browkis,  who,  as  Sir  Bemaid  Burke  in  his  Landed 
Gentry  states,  was  lineally  descended  from  Sir  David  le  Brun, 
the  contemporary  and  oompanion-in-arpis  of  the  B>ed  Earl  of 
Ulster,  succeeded  to  his  hereditary  estates  in  1487;  and, 
having  married  Eveline,  daughter  of  Geoffi*ey  Lynch  then 
Mayor  of  Galway,  had  by  her  six  sons;  Andrew,  who  died 
Mayor  of  tiiat  town  in  1574,  William,  and  four  youngs. 
William  married  Anastasia,  daughter  of  Valentine  Blake  by 
his  wife  Evelina  French,  and  by  her  had  Dominick  of  Bama, 
and  three  other  sons.  Dominick  was  Mayor  of  Galway  in 
1575,  and  an  executing  party  to  Ferret's  composition  for  the 
Connaught  estates  in  1585.  He  married  a  daughter  of  Sir 
Murrogh  O'Flahertie,  by  whom  he  had  seven  sons,  from  whom 
most  of  the  present  Gralway  Brownes  are  descended.  The 
eldest,  Oliver,  was  ancestor  of  the  Coolam  line.  The  second, 
Edward,  having  gone  to  Germany  and  served  under  the  Duke 
of  Lorraine,  was  to  have  comnumded  2,000  of  the  troops,  that 
prince  proposed  to  send  in  Bid  of  King  Charles.  G-eofirej, 
the  third  son,  was  ancestor  of  Lord  Qranmore ;  i^  was  Marcus 
of  the  Brownes  of  Annaghmore,  now  extinct*  Thomas, 
from  whom  those  of  Newtown,  Ardskea,  and  Cooloo  are 
descended;  James,  Sheriff  of  Gtdway  in  1647;  and  Andrew, 
the  ancestor  of  this  Colonel  Dominick  and  of  the  family  of 
Clonkelly  and  Moyne.  He  was  one  of  the  memorable  Galway 
jury,  who  refused  to  concur  in  the  arbitrary  finding  of  the 
Crown^s  title  to  Connaught,  which  Wentworth  sou^t  to 
obtain,  and  for  which  offence  he  and  his  brother  dissentient 


DOMiNicK  Browne's  inpaktbt.  671 

jurors  were  attainted.  He  died  in  1647,  in  which  year  his 
TWoler^lie-  uftjfeMld'Geofftey,  waa  the  envoy,  deputed  by  the 
Confederate  Catholios  to  Queen  Henrietta,  and  afterwaida  in 
1650  to  the  Duke  of  Lorraine.  AU  these  acts  of  loyalty 
subjected  him  to  confiscations,  that  swept  away  his  whole 
estate ;  yet  still,  unshaken  in  adherence  to  the  Stuart  Dynasty, 
he  sent  to  the  service  of  Jan^es  not  o^ly  the  above  Dominick, 
but  likewise  another  son,  Stephent  both  of  whom  were 
engaged  at  the  battle  of  Aughrim, 

In  1670  this  Dominick  had  a  oonfim^tory  patent  for 
3,239  acres  in  Galway,  to  hold  to  the  use  gf  the  heirs  and 
assigns  of  his  fbther,  said  Geoffiey,  deeeased..  Xn  1677 
Edward  Brown  of  Gralway,  merchant,  had  a  similar  grant  4>f 
1,475  acres  in  Mayo,  with  563  other  acres,  to  hold  to  himself 
(Edward)  and  Julian  his  wife  for  life,  remt^nder  to  his  son 
Andrew  in  tail  niale,  remainder  to  his  own  heirs  male;  re- 
mainder to  the  heirs  male  of  Sir  Dominick  Browne,  knight; 
remainder  to  his  own  right  heirs.  In  the  following  year  he 
had  a  grant  of  1,101  acres  in  Koscommon,  and  in  1678  of 
1,783  acres  in  Mayo,  617  in  Gralway,  and  241  in  Boscommon ; 
as  had  Oliver  Browne  of  2,481  acres  in  Gralway,  in  trust  for 
Oliver  Browne  th^  younger;  while  Nicholas  Browne  then 
passed  patent  for  5,081  acres  in  Gralway  (including  Moyne), 
Boscommon,  and  Sligo ;  Marcus  Browne  for  703  in  Gralway, 
and  in  1680  for  272  more.  In  1677  George,  son  of  John 
Browne  deceased,  had  a  confirmatory  grant  of  1,770  acres  in 
Mayo,  as  had  John  Browne  in  1678  of  2,185  acres  in  that 
county,  and  1,417  in  Galway.  In  1681  Valentine  Browne 
had  a  grant  of  2,013  acres  in  Mayo,  and  of  438  in  Gkilway ;  as 
had  Ignatius  Browne  of  777  acres  in  Mayo,  to  hold  to  him 
and  his  heirs  male,  remainder  to  the  heirs  male  of  Geofi&ey 
Browne    deceased;    remainder    to    the    heirs  male  of   Sir 


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k./^..  A  .   ^  •^•.  ^">'  >  ^" '  ^  —  l^^^'i- 


672  KIKO  JTAKBS'S  IBISH  ABUT  LIST. 

Daminick  Browne,  deceased;  remainder  to  his  own  right 
hem.  In  1684  Greoige,  son  and  heir  apparent  of  John 
Browne  of  the  Neale,  had  a  oonfirmatory  patent  for  3,239 
acres  in  Mayo,  to  the  nse  of  his  fitther's  heirs  and  assigns. 
Elng  James's  Charter  to  Gralway  in  1687  phoed  seven  of  the 
name  of  Browne  upon  the  Bnigess  BolL 

There  is  one  whose  name  does  not  appear  upon  this  Army 
List,  who  yet  was  deeply  associated  with  the  campaign. — 
Colonel  John  Browne  of  the  Neale ;  of  him,  however,  can  it 
only  be  stated  that  to  his  anoestcnr,  Josiah  Browne,  King 
James  the  First  confirmed  in  1612,  the  castle,  town  and  lands 
of  the  Neale,  in  the  Connty  of  Mayo;  with  several  townlands 
in*Iveagh,  the  territory  of  Mac  Guinness. '  His  descendant, 
here  alluded  to,  had  a  command  in  the  bedeged  towns  of 
Gralway  and  Limerick,  and  was  an  executing  party  to  the 
Articles  for  the  surrender  of  the  latter,  in  the  drawing  up  of 
which  he  assisted.  He  was  the  lineal  ancestor  of  the  present 
Marquess  of  Sligo,  as  was  his  elder  brother,  George,  of  the 
Barons  of  Kilmaine.  Li  June  1693,  this  Geoige  obtained  a 
pardon  fix>m  the  Crown  for  himself  and  his  son,  another  John, 
on  the  grounds  that  he  (George)  never  held  civil  or  military 
employment  under  Kmg  James,  except  the  commisuon  of  the 
peace  and  that  he  was  once  Sheriff  of  Mayo.  He  ftuiher 
relied  that  he  had  been  very  active  in  preserving  the 
Protestants  of  Connaught  during  the  Rebellion ;  that  he  had 
only  one  son,  said  John,  and  that  neither  of  them  was  ever 
indicted  or  outlawed. 

At  Chichester  House  Alice  Browne,  as  widow  of  John 
Browne  of  the  Neale,  claimed  jointure  thereoff,  while  John 
Browne,  junior,  claimed  a  remainder  in  tail  therein,  and  both 
their  claims  were  allowed* 


DOUINIOK  BBOWmi'S  mFAKTBT,  673 


CAPTAINS  GREGORY,  MATTHEW  AND 
CHRISTOPHER  FRENCJI. 

This  noble  family,  under  the  Norman  orthogmphy  of 
Freyne,  de  la  Freigne,  <&c.,  appears  on  Battle  BoU  amongst 
the  warriors  that  came  over  with  the  Conqueror  to  England. 
The  early  survey  of  the  Knights'  Fees  in  certain  counties 
there,  in  the  time  of  Henry  the  Third,  finds  Thomas,  Hugh, 
and  Walter  de  Freigne  then  extensive  proprietors  in  Here- 
fordshire, where,  as  in  oliier  parts  of  the  island,  this  surname 
was  altered  to  Frensh  or  French.  Gilbert,  Earl  of  Gloucester, 
having  married  one  of  the  five  daughters  of  William,  the 
great  Earl  Marshal  of  Ireland,  acquired,  pn  the  partition  of 
his  vast  estates,  the  whole  County  of  Kilkenny  as  his  I^4y's 
portion,  which  he  transmitted  to  his  grandson,  anqther 
Gilbert ;  who,  marrying  the  daughter  of  King  Edward  the 
First,  became  the  most  powerftd  of  English  Barons,  while 
he  regarded  with  great  care  and  favour  bis  Irish  inheritsMice. 
This  EJarl,  during  the  high  commissions  with  which  he  was 
entrusted,  in  resisting  the  encroacho^ents  of  the  Welsh,  or 
rather  perhaps  in  niaintaining  those  of  the  English  on  them, 
selected  Fulco  de  Freyne  of  the  Herefordshire  House  to  be  his 
Seneschal  of  Kilkenny,  that  office  being  then  considered  of  the 
highest  trust  and  consequence.  His  son,  another  Fulco,  styled 
the  younger,  and  Oliver  de  la  Freyne  were,  in  1335,  summoned 
as  magnates  of  Ireland,  to  serve  the  King's  wars  in  Scotland, 
and  were  present  at  the  battle  of  Hallidown.  In  the  Boll  of 
Noblemen  and  Knights,  who  were  with  King  Edward  at  the 
siege  of  Calais  in  1346,  appeiu^  the  name  of  'Fulco  de  la 
VOL.  II.  2  X 


674  KINO  JAXBS'S  IRISH  AJtMT  LIST. 

Fraign,  Hibemicus  quasi  Baro*  having  (as  the  entry  seems 
to  denote)  under  his  command  one  Banneret,  one  Enight, 
eighteen  'armigeri/  and  fourteen  hobillers,  in  all  thirtj-foor. 
From  his  son  Robert  de  la  Freyne  lineally  descended  the 
Frenches  and  Ffrenches  of  Connaught. 

In  1616  died  Walter  Frenche  of  Ballytery,  County  of 
Wexford,  leaving  Nicholas,  his  son  and  heir,  aged  22  and 
unmarried.  At  the  Supreme  Council  of  SSlkenny  sat  the 
celebrated  Nicholas  French,  the  Roman  Catholic  Bishop  of 
Ferns,  as  a  Spiritual  Peer;  wlule  in  the  Commons  were 
Christopher  and  James  French,  both  described  as  of  Ghdway. 
The  Declaration  of  Boyal  thanks  in  the  Act  of  Settlement 
includes  Anthony  French,  Judge  Advocate;  and,  after  die 
Restoration,  Dominidt,  Evdyn,  Geotge,  Henry^  James, 
Ignatius,  Jasper,  Jeffiry,  John,  Marcus,  M<ktthew,  Nicholas, 
Patrick,  Roebuck,  and  Thomas  French  had  aevenl  and 
respective  confirmatory  grants  of  lands,  in  Mayo  and  Gatwaj- 

Captain  Matthew  here  in  commission  aiq[>ears  to  have  been 
of  the  house  of  Colemansto^n ;  while  John,  of  that  of 
Rahassan,  became  a  Captain  in  the  Earl  of  Clanricarde's 
In&ntryj  wherein  Marcus  French  was  a  Lieutenant  The 
latter  had  likewise  risen  to  rank  as  Captain  at  the  battle  of 
Aughrim,  after  which  be  surrendered  himself  to  De  GinkeU-* 
Christopher  was  also  a  Captun  in  thb  Regiment,  and  another 
French  was  a  Lieutenant  in  Colonel  Simon  Luttrdl's  DragooDS- 
On  King  James's  new  Charter  to  Gralway,  eleven  of  this  name 
were  appointed  Burgesses,  and,  in  the  Parliament  of  1689, 
James  French  sat  as  one  of  the  Representatives  of  the 
Borough  of  Sligo.  Three  of  this  name4ield  commissioiis  ^ 
Lord  Bophin's  Infantry.     The  Attainders  of  1691  have  fi^^ 

m  fcJi  I  I  ■■■■■■■       I  ■■■■■  ■■  rt       ■        ■■■■  _i_   I J        _ji     .1      ■iBjj J I 1^^^  ^^^*^^'*^ 

*  CPOaUagkan's  Mac  ExdcL,  p.  468. 


DOMIKICK  BROWNIE^'S   INFAIJTRT.  675 

Frenches  in  Sligo  and  QsXw9j  respectiyely ;  wbUp  tbe  i^are- 
said  Captain  John  French  of  lUhassan  was  decreed  entitled 
to  the  benefit  of  the  articles  of  1698  and  1699. 


CAPTAIN  FRANCIS  MARTIN. 

Thia  name  U  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of  Edward 
ike  Second;  and  even  appears  aa  a  Milesian  family  in  the 
native  annals.    In  1^16  died  GioUa  Arnain  O'Maptain,  Chief 

Br^on  (Judge)  of  Ireland.     In  1431  O'Martain  died 

Bishop  of  Clogher;  while  Thomas  Martyn  had  a  posses^ry 
writ  in  1310,  and  another  of  the  same  name  is  recorded  aa 
then  iresiding  in  Gal  way.  In  1401  Edw<u-d  M#rtyii  of  BaUy- 
geme  was  selected  as  Jbhe  assessor  of  a  state  subsidy  over  the 
Barony  of  Silt,  County  Kildare.  In  1506  Thomas  Martyn 
<^(jalway,  merchant,  aned  out  letters  of  pardon  and  protectioti; 
and  in  1533  Sir  Bachat^  Martin  ajso  described  its  of  Galway, 
merchant,  had  a  grant  of  three  *  places*  in  the  King*s  water 
of  Oalway,  'between  the  bridge  of  that  town  and  the  sea, 
where  it  shaiji  seem  beat  to  him,  for  three  nets  to  take  salmon 
and  other  fish  as  is  usual  there;*  while  Thomas  Martin, 
another  meiebant  of  that  town,  had  a  similar  licenae  for  two 
nets  in  the  same  water.  In  1589  Sir  Murrough  Dhu 
OTfiahortjie,  the  first  of  that  family  who  consented  to  hold 
hie  estates  by  English  tenure,  was  proceeded  ligs^t,  for 
violating  the  provisions  4>f  a  penal  statute  of  Homy  the 
Seventh,  by  retaining  in  his  service  at  Kihnainham,  William 
Martin  and  three  other  merchants  of  Gralway,  to  whom  he 
gave  four  several  deaths  for  their  livery,  to  serve  him  in  form 


7 


676  KING  JAMEB'S   fRfSH   ARMT  LIST. 

'Btipendiariomm/  angliee  'reteyners,*  aEid  not  otherwise.*    In 
1625,  Anthony  Martin  succeeded  to  the  See  of  Waterford. 

In  1642,  prepiaatoiy  to  the  forming  the  Conndl  at 
KUkennj,  Richard  Martin  was  selected  as  one  of  the  Com- 
mittee for  shaping  the  phm  of  their  government ;  while 
another  Anthony  Martin,  described  as  of  Galway,  appears 
on  the  List  of  the  Commons.  In  1687  Peter  Martin  was 
f^pointed  a  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas,  and  King  James's 
Charter  to  Galway  phced  six  of  this  name  on  the  buigess 
roll.  Beades  Captain  Francis  Martin  in  this  Regiment, 
another  Francis  was  Lieutenant  in  Colonel  Henry  IMllon's,  as 
was  Dominick  Martin  in  Lord  Galway*s.  In  the  Parliament 
of  1689,  Oliver  Martin  was  one  of  the  Representatives  for  the 
town  of  Galway;  he  was  afterwards  attainted,  but  claimed 
the  benefit  of  the  Articles  of  Limerick  and  Galway.  Six 
others  of  the  name  were  then  also  outlawed.  In  right  of  one 
of  these,  Peter  Martin  of  GhJway,  the  fine  abbey  of  E3' 
Gonnel,  its  precincts  and  possessions,  vested  in  the  Crown. 
His  Gralway  estates  were  purchased  from  the  Commissioners 
of  the  forfeitures  in  1703,  by  the  Reverend  John  Frendii 
Dean  of  Raphoe. 

In  1698  the  Irish  House  of  Gonunons,  *  being  sensible  of 
the  great  inconveniences  arising  from  grants  of  manors  and 
royalties  to  Papists,'  prayed  the  Lords  Justices  to  cause  a 
late  grant  of  lands,  in  the  manor  of  Claremont  and  County  of 
Gralway,  to  Richard  Martin  of  RoscahUl  to  be  repealed;  and 
they  further  prayed  that  no  such  grant  should  in  future  be 
made  to  any  Papists  or  to  others  in  trust  for  them.  In  1707 
Richard  Martin,  of  Bursthall,  on  behalf  of  himself  and  other 
proprietors  of  the  Baronies  of  Moycullen,  Ballinahinch  and 

♦  Court  RiM  of  EHz. 


DOMINICK  BROWNE'S   INFANTBT.  677 

Ross  in  Gtilwaj,  petitioned  the  Irish  Parliament,  setting  forth 
that  the  said  Baronies  are  greatly  infested  by  outlaws  and 
other  male&ctors,  and  praying,  towards  the  relief  thereof, 
that  barracks  be  buUt  there,  for  which  the  petitioner  was 
willing  to  afford  the  ground.  Immediately  after,  and  in  con- 
sequence of  such  a  representation  of  the  state  of  that  country, 
a  proclamation  issued  for  the  apprehension  of  three  Flahertys 
and  one  Joyce;  and  the  House  resolved  that  such  part  of  the 
army,  as  should  be  thought  needful,  ought  to  be  quartered  in 
the  Baronies  aforesaid. 


CAPTAIN  ANDREW  NOWLAND. 

Th£  0*Nolans  were  a  sept  of  the  highest  antiquity,  especially 
in  the  County  of  Carlow,  where  they  gave  name  to  the  district  of 
Fothart-O'Nolan,  within  which,  immediately  after  the  English 
Invasion,  Hugh  de  Lacy  erected  one  of  those  castles,  which 
his  provident  care  designed  to  sentinel  the  Pale.  A  very 
interesting  memoir  of  the  sept,  with  their  armorial,  is 
appended  to  the  third  volume  of  Sir  Bernard  Burke's  Visita- 
tions of  Seats  and  Armsi 

The  native  Annals  commemorate  their  achievements  from 
the  earliest  introduction  of  surnames,  and  a  succession  of 
recorded  Inquisitions  testifies  the  extent  of  their  territory. 
In  1330,  writes  Clynne  in  his  Annals,  *  Richard  0*Nolan  was 
besieged,  on  the  eve  of  the  circumcision,  in  the  steeple  of 
the  Abbey  of  Graignamanagh,  County  of  Kilkenny,  by  the 
English;  and  he  could  obtain  his  release  only  by  giving  up 
his  son,  as  a  hostage  for  his  future  demeanour.*  In  1355  a 
Treasury  liberate  passed  to  Nicholas  Fauconberg,  for  that  he, 


678  KIKO  iAJUBS'S  UUSH  AMMT  LIM. 

IttTuig  been  thefetofore  deputed,  with  a  small  eoiii(riiiiieiit  of 
men  for  the  defence  of  die  Coonty  of  Cviow,  and  havbg 
learned  that  the  O'Nohn,  with  a  fiv  hvger  bod  j,  had  bid  siege 
to  the  castle  of  Ejlbele  theran,  immediately  attacked  him  and 
▼anqnbhed  him  with  flfauighter  of  manj  of  his  adheareatB.  In 
three  yean  after  William  Vale,  Sheriff  of  Carlo w,  had  anotiier 
treasorjr  order  especially  for  his  bringing  np  to  the  Castle  of 

Dnblin  the  heads  of O'Ndan,  Philip  0*B3*me,  and  other 

Irish  chiefs.  A  branch  of  this  sept  settling  in  Connaoght. 
dropped  the  Milesian  prefix,  and  to  one  of  tiiese,  Tbomfts 
Nolan  of  Ballinrobe,  King  James  in  1605  granted  license  for 
a  market  and  (am  there.  In  that  year  Sir  Oliver  Lambert, 
Knight  and  Privy  Councillor,  had  a  grant  from  the  Crown  of 
a  great  many  townlands  in  Fothart-O'Nolan,  including  Bally- 
kealy,  Kilbride,  Ballytrasney,  with  its  old  castle,  <ic.,  described 
as  theretofore  the  estates  of  several  0*Nolans,  ^attainted,*  or 
'dead  m  rebellion;  The  Attainders  of  1642  name  but  Joko 
Kokn  of  Kiloool,  County  of  Kildare,  and  Nichobis  Nolan  of 
Batheny,  County  of  DuMin. 

In  1677  Patrick  Nohn  had  a  confirmatory  grant  of  8,810 
acres  in  Mayo,  and  another  of  748  acres  in  the  same  Count^i 
to  him  and  Anne  Us  wife,  in  tail  male ;  remainder  to  his  hdrs 
male;  remainder  to  Andrew,  second  son  of  John  Nohm,  and 
his  heirs  male ;  remainder  to  the  right  hdrs  of  said  John, 
pursuant  to  a  deed  of  settlement  of  that  year.  Said  Patrick 
had  a'  fiuther  grant  of  2,792  acres  also  in  Mayo,  to  him  and 
his  heirs  male,  with  like  remainders  over.  In  the  foUowifig 
year  John  Nolan  passed  pat^it  for  824  actes  therein,  while 
another  John  Nolan,  merehant,  had  in  1687  a  lease  of  tiie 
rectory  and  tithes  of  Jerpcnnt  in  the  County  of  Kilkenny, 
and  was  in  the  same  year  named  an  Ald^man  of  King  James's 
new  Charter  to  that  town.    On  the  Attainden  of  1691  the 


DOMINICK  bbowmb's  infant&y.  679 

name  of  Captain  Andrew  does  not  appear,  but  only  those  of 
James  and  Laurence  Nolan  of  Shangany,  County  of  Carlow; 
Michael  of  Kilkea,  County  of  Kildare ;  Thaddeus  of  Knocka- 
naltan  and  Martin  of  Ballyesken,  County  of  Waterford,  with 
Joseph  Nolan  of  Drum,  County  of  GtJway.  One  of  these 
outlaws  was  a  Captain  in  Colonel  Edward  Butler's  Iniantiy, . 
and  another  an  Ensign  in  Lord  Slane's.  At  Chichester 
House  John  Nolan  claimed  and  was  allowed  an  estate  for 
lives  in  the  lands  of  Sbangarry  and  Ballinrush,  as  forfeited  by 
Laurence  Nolan;  while  a  Thomas  Nolan  sought,  as  son  and 
heir  o£  Ellen,  daughter  of  Jasper  Kirwan,  and  wife  of  Joseph 
Nolan,  an  estate  in  fee  in  County  of  Galway  lands  forfeited  by 
said  Joseph,  but  her  petition  was  dismist  on  non-prosecution. 
Of  this  sept  was  the  late  talented  and  uniyersally  esteemed 
Catholic  Bishop  of  Ealdare  and  Leighlin,  Dr.  Edward  Nolan, 
who  died  in  1839. 


CAPTAIN  ANDREW  AND  ENSIGN  THOMAS 

'  ATYE.* 

The  name  of  *  De  Athy '  is  of  record  in  Ireland  fix)m  the 
reign  of  Edward  the  Second,  in  whose  reign  one  of  liie  name 
was  Sheriff  of  Limerick.  In  1325  John  de  Athy  was 
Constable  of  the  Castle  of  Carrickfergus.  Edward  the  Third 
appointed  him  Admiral  of  the  fleet  of  all  the  ships  in  every 
harbour  and  place  of  Ireland.  King  Bichard  the  Second  in 
1385  constituted  William  de  Athy  Treasurer  of  Coimaught. 
The  name  does  not  appear  on  the  Attainders  of  1642  or 
1691. 


680  KINO  James's  ibish  abmt  list. 


ENSIGN  GREGORY  JOYCE. 

None  of  this  Surname  appear  on  the  Attainders  of  1642. 
Those  of  1691  pJresent  Dominick  Jofyce  of  Gralway  and 
Martin  Joyce  of  Dollin,  in  Mayo.  The  first  of  this  name 
who  came  td  Ireland  (says  Hardiman)  sailed  from  Wales  in 
the  reign  of  Eidneard  the  First,  and,  arriving  in  Thomond, 
married  Honora  O'Brieui  daughter  of  the  chief  of  that 
district,  whence  he  proceeded  to  the  west  of  Connaught, 
and  there  acquired  large  territory  which  his  posterity  still 
inhabit.  They  have  been  located  chiefiy  in  the  mountainous 
tract  connecting  GhJway  and  Mayo,  and  the  extraordinary 
stature  of  their  race  has  distinguished  them  through  centuries. 
They  ranked  as  one  of  the  thirteen  tribes  of  Gralway,  and 
William  '  Joyes '  was  Archbishop  of  Tuam  in  1486. 

John  *  Joyes '  was  one  of  the  townsmen  of  Galway,  who 
signed  the  terms  for  its  capitulation  in  1652,  while  Richard, 
Walter,  George,  and  John  refused  so  to  do;  and  Martin, 
Patt,  James,  and  another  Walter  absented  themselves  finom 
all  negotiation  on  the  subject. 


ENSIGN  WILLIAM  SKERRETT. 

In  1662  Sir  Oliver  St.  George  complained  to  the  Irish  House 
of  Commons  of  a  wrongful  entry  and  dissdsin  on  the  Castle, 
town  and  lands  of  Cloghnoura,  in  the  County  of  Galway,  by 
Dominick  Skerrett ;  and  its  Sheriff  was  ordered  to  redress  the 


DOMINIGK  BBOWN£*8  INFANTBT.  681 

petitioner.  This  sftme  Dominick  however  it  would  seem 
obtained  a  confirmatory  patent  in  1678  for  1,175  acres  in 
Gralway,  and  630  in  Mayo;  as  did  Edmund  Skerrett  for  741 
in  the  former  county,  and  William  Skerrett  for  887  also 
there ;  the  latter  had  likewise  a  saving  of  his  right  in  certain 
lands,  inserted  in  a  patent  thereof  to  Sir  Henry  Lynch  and 
Ellen  his  wife,  and  may  be  idehtical  with  the  officer  here 
under  consideration.  There  are  many  monuments  of  this  line 
in  the  interesting  grave-yard  of  Meelichj  County  Gralway,  and 
the  family  is  to  this  day  of  tenure  and  respectability,  more 
particularly  in  the  Coimty  of  Clare,  where  it  is  represented  by 
William  Joseph  Skerrett  of  Finavara  House< 


682 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRT. 


OOU>ntL  OWKV  XAA  GAKIIB  8. 


ICm  Ccrtfo  JTovv, 

GibbooiL 

MaeCartis. 

GokNML 

ICMGtftkp 

'HenmU.* 

' — lUlm^. 

TJfiitjmnt-Cirlflititii 
Tennee  BriMi, 

Major. 

• 

—  McDoDiulL 

— .MdlefiDOt 

£d.6«i7. 

'^^Barj. 

Dennot  HoolahaiL 

—  SnlliTan. 

Boche. 

Dftrid  BftRjr. 

«— Bttiy. 

ICaddoL 

Bnrice. 

FiteGermld. 

FitxGenld. 

->— .  FitsGenld. 

Gould. 

-»— Caieir. 

IfacCartie* 

^'  ■  Teny. 

Teiiy. 

HacGartia. 

— — Gonnaxu 

DriMoU. 

Mac  Cartle. 

.-^Uacartia. 

QraiuuL 

— —  Hagrathf  Aff^^wa. 

MAO  oabtib'b  infaktet.  683 


COLONEL  OWEN  MAC  CARTIE. 

Memoibs  of  this  illustrious  family  have  been  given  ante  at 
pages  96,  &c.,  415,  &c. 


CAPTAIN  yERRIS. 

A  BBANCH  of  this  family  was  established  in  Kerry,  but  the 
kindred  of  this  officer  has  not  been  ascertained. 


CAPTAIN MORROW. 

This  officer  was  probably  the  Andrew  Morrow  whom  King 
James  in  1690  appointed  one  of  the  Commissioners  for 
assessing  a  poD  tax  over  the  County  of  Cork ;  and  by  that 
name  was  he  attainted  in  1691,  being  described  as  of  Ejnsale, 
Esq.  David,  Michael,  Henry,  and  Andrew  *  Murrow '  were 
also  then  attainted  as  of  the  same  county.  None  of  the  name 
appear  on  the  previous  attainders  of  1641. 


ENSIGN MELLEFONT. 

The  Attainders  of  1691  record  two  of  this  name  in  the 
County  of  Cork,  viz.,  David  Mellefont  of  Ballingarry  and 
William  of  Arlingtown.  The  rapacious  i^ppropriation  of  the 
estates  of  this  fiunily  in  Cork  on  the  Attainders  of  1641,  has 
been  alluded  to  ante,  vol.  1,  pp.  444-5,  and  might  well  incite 
the  heir  of  that  oppressed  fiunily  to  espouse  the  fortunes  of 
the  Stuart. 


684 


KIKO  JAMB88  IKIBH  AXMY  LIST. 


EEGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 


OOIiONBL  JOHN  BABBBTT'S. 


TheCoUmeL 
Donogh  0*CftlUighan, 

JolmRoch«i 

John  Butler. 
David  ^Cooihene.^ 
Francis  VyUan. 
Redmond  Bany. 
John  BArrtJtt. 
'WHliam  SheehAi. 
Thomaa  Meade. 
Qeorge  Heneei/. 


JohnEOioti 
MUeeMagrath. 

— —Boehe. 

John  Gafiiey. 
Thomas  Bairy. 
Gihbon  FitzGenld. 
John  Bany. 
Edmond  Condon. 
Jdhn  ^eaphy. 
Arthur  Keeffe. 
Nicholas  Kagrath. 


David  Roche« 
John  'Callahane.* 

Thomas  Garqr. 

FhHip  DonovaiL 
Bichard  Goahine. 
James  <Gold.* 
^ames  Roche. 
I^dmuid  Barrett. 
Thomas  0*Donnell. 
William  Bany. 
Patrick  Phelan. 


i^uarttr-Mcuier,  Edmund  BarreL 
CAifyfoMf  ^— Callanane. 


BABBETT'S  JKFA3XTRT.  685 


COLONEL  JOHN  BARI^ETT. 

This  name  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time  of  Edward 
the  Second.  In  1302  John  'Baret'  was  one  of  the  ^Fideles* 
invited  to  assist  him  in  the  wars  of  Scotland ;  the  family  was 
most  influentially  established  in  the  County  of  Cork.  In 
1309  King  Edward,  having  learned  the  good  services  per- 
formed by  John  'Baret*  on  the  marches,  against  the  King's 
enemies,  pardoned  sundry  Crown  debts  and  rents  chargeable 
on  his  heir,  William  Baret  in  Grenagh,  County  Cork.  This 
William  died  in  1344,  leaving  daughters,  his  only  issue. 
Kobert  *Baret'  was  Seneschal  of  Cork  in  that  year  and  a 
Co-seneschal  of  Connaught.  In  1375  Richard  oge  Baret, 
having  occasion  to  transact  some  business  in  the  Eang's 
County,  but  fearing  danger  and  damage  to  himself  and  his 
followers  in  appearing  there,  had  letters  of  protection  veniendo, 
morando  et  redeundo;  and  in  1382  he  was  summoned  with  his 
suite  to  a  hosting.  In  the  Parliamentaiy  Representation  from 
Ireland,  that  sat  at  Westminster  in  1376,  Bernard  Barrett 
was  one  of  the  Representatives  of  Youghal,  Barrets  were 
also  strongly  settled  in  Mayo  from  the  thirteenth  century. 
In  1404  died  Thomas  Barrett,  Bishop  of  Elphin,  Hhe  most 
eminent  man  in  Ireland  for  wisdom  and  a  superior  knowledge 
of  divinity.'  He  was  interred  in  Errew  beside  Lough  Con. 
In  1414  the  Eling,  at  the  request  of  the  Bishop  of  Ferns, 
granted  liberty  to  William  Barret,  Parson  of  Kilskowran,  to 
absent  himself  in  England,  sojourning  at  the  schools  of 
Oxford,  without  incurring  any  forfeiture  or  diminution  of  his 
income;  he  appears  on  many  subsequent  records  an  object  of 
Royal  favour. 


686  KING  JAMEfi'S  IRISH  ABMT  LIST. 

A  Burvey  of  the  Province  of  Connauglit,  made  in  1586, 
describes  Invermore  in  Mayo  as  the  Barretts'  hmds;  and  in 
1605  King  James  granted  to  Edward  Barrett,  commonly 
called  Baron  of  Irrus,  the  entire  country  or  territoiy  or 
barony  of  Irrus,  with  various  castles  therein,  the  town  and 
castle  of  Kilbride  and  other  premises  in  the  Barony  of 
Tyrawley,  of  whioh  he  or  his  ancestors  were  found  by  inqui- 
sition of  1593  to  have  been  possessed,  to  hold  to  himself  for 
life,  remainder  in  tiul  male  to  his  three  sons,  William,  Ricfaard, 
and  Edmund,  remainder  to  the  heirs  male  of  his  own  body, 
remainder  to  Peter,  8<m  of  Eremon  Barrett  of  Dowlagh,  re- 
mainder to  Matthew  Barrett  of  Dowlagh,  and  their  respective 
heirs  male,  remainder  to  the  Crown :  yet,  about  the  same 
time,  John  King,  of  Dublin,  had  a  grant  of  parcels  of  the 
estates  of  Meyler,  Maurice  and  Bedmond  Barrett  of  Majo, 
slain  in  rebellion.  In  1643  there  were  of  this  name  attainted, 
Edmund,  John,  and  fourteen  other  Barretts.  A  John  Banett 
however  appears  on  record  passing  patent  for  3,005  acres  in 
Down  and  Armagh,  in  1668,  as  did  Edmund  for  861  in 
Roscommon  and  340  in  ^igo;  about  which  time  a  Giles 
Barret  had  a  confirmatory  patent  of  land  in  Tipperary,  as  had 
Pierce  Barret  of  113  acres  in  Mayo,  while  the  claims  of 
others  of  the  name  to  adjudications,  as  in  right  of  *164d* 
Officers,  appear  allowed. 

The  above  Colonel  was  of  the  Cork  Barrets,  and  in  the 
Parliament  of  1688  sat  as  one  of  the  Representatives  of  the 
Borough  of  Moyallow.  His  Regiment  seems  to  have  been 
oollected  firom  families  of  that  County ;  but  it  was,  as  sq^pears 
from  contemporaneous  authority,  disbanded  a  fortnight  before 
the  battle  of  the  Bojme;  at  whioh  time,  it  is  stated,  were  aliso 
disbanded  Colonel  Iriel  Farrell's,  Colonel  Bagnall'^,  Lord 
Tyrone's,   Donogh  OBrien's,    Lord   Iveagh's,    Mae  Cartie 


basbett's  ikfaktbt.  687 

Beagh*8,  Lord  KilmaIlock*s,  Dcmimick  !&x>WBe*8,  and  Lord 
Motmtcaahers;*  some  of  these  were  however,  of  the  force 
sent  to  France  m  exefaange  for  French  Segments,  and  others 
were  incorporated  in  different  existing  bodies  of  this  sendee. 

A Barret  was  Captain  in  Lord  Kenmare's  Infieuitrj,  and 

an  officer  of  that  name  and  rank  was  taken  prisoner  at  the 
siege  of  Limeriek,  The  Attainders  of  1691  ioelude  this 
officer,  described  as  John  Barrett  of  Dublin,  Esq.,  as  also  of 
Castlemore,  Countj  of  Cork,  with  twelve  othars  in  the  last 
mentioned  county.  At  Chichester  House  John  Barret 
claimed  and  was  allowed  a  long  term  of  years  subsisting  in 
certain  estates  of  this  Colonel,  the  fee  of  which  was  subse- 
quently granted  respectively  to  Sir  John  Meade  of  Ballintober, 
£jiight,  and  to  Sir  Matthew  Deaoe,  Knight,  both  of  whom, 
were  creditors  of  the  Colonel  to  a  large  amount.  The  Hollow 
Swords  Blades  Company  likewise  purchased  some  of  his 
property. 


LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  DONOGH 
O'CALLAGHAN, 

This  noble  Irish  sept  was  partiaDy  located  in  the  Counties 
tyf  Louth  and  Mayo,  but  more  especially  in  Cork,  where  the 
whole  tract,  comprising  the  parishes  of  Clonmeen  and  Eil- 
fihannick,  about  50,000  aeres  on  both  sides  of  tiie  Blackwater, 
and  hence  called  Pobbl^O^Callaghap ,  was  occupied  by  them. 
The  Four  Masters  notice  the  death  of  Dono^  O'Callaghan, 
heir  presumptive  to  the  Kingdom  (Riodamhna)  of  Casfael  in 
1053 ;   and  in  1121  the  decease  of  Melaghlin  O'Callaghan, 

■I  ■■»    1        ■ I  III!  ■  I  ■.»..■■■!  ■    I        .  I     ■      .    ^  I    ■  ■■!.  1    ■       I    I  p 

*  PampA2e!b  m  T^^'ff  TVvicft,  fblio,  Ihib.  Soc^' 


688  KIHG  JAKKS'S  IBI8H  ABMT  UBT. 

Loid  of  Hy-Eatlm  of  Muoster,  the  "qAendoor  of  the  Soutli 
of  Xfekud.**  In  1594  an  Inqoiiition  waa  directod  to  aaoertaun 
by  mean  and  boonda  die  extent  of  Pobble-O'CaDagfaan;  at 
iriuch  time  the  chief  wmb  Cornelnia  O'CaDa^um,  the  lineal 
anoeator  of  the  present  Eari  of  Idamore.  The  aept  is  cod- 
aidered  to  hare  adopted  ita  name  from  the  well-known 
CealhAan»CaBheIy  who  was  King  of  Monater  in  the  tenth 
centujy.  Their  duef  readenoe  was  at  Cknuneenf  where  the 
mins  of  their  caade  are  adll  tiaoeable  on  a  rock  near  that 
riyer. 

In  1610  Cahir  O'CaUagfaan  had  a  grant  of  the  Caade,  town 
and  knda  of  Dromenine,  created  a  manor  theadn;  and,  in  the 
following  year,  he  and  Connor  O'CaUaghan,  atyled  of  Clon- 
myne,  snirendered  all  their  eatatea  in  the  County  of  Cork, 
which  are  enumerated  in  die  patent  to  the  intent  that  same 
might  be  r^ranted  to  them  on  a  new  tide.  Nine  of  the 
name  were  attainted  in  1643,  via.,  Caher,  CaUagfaan,  and 
Teigne  Roe  0*Callaghan  of  Drominine,  Donogh  of  Clonmyne, 
Dermot  of  Gortroe,  Owen  of  Kilbranty,  Comeliua  of  Coole- 
geile,  John  of  Coolemity ,  and  Donell '  O'Cullape'  of  Coulkelore. 
At  the  Supreme  Council  of  falkeony  in  1646,  the  Confede- 
rate Cadiolica  aaeumed  to  fill  the  Tacant  See  of  Cori:  with 
Bobert  John  *  McCallaghau ;'  but,  on  the  Nuncio'a  inter- 
ference, he  was  not  promoted  thereto.  Amongst  theee 
Confederates  sat  Callaghan  O'Callaghan  of  Casde  Mao- 
Aulifie,  and  Donogh  O'CaHaghan  of  Clonmeen,  The  Boyal 
declaration  of  1662  included,  in  its  acknowledgment  of  thanks 
for  senrices  beyond  the  seas,  said  Donogh  of  Clonmeen,  and 
by  the  Act  of  Settlement,  in  which  that  dedaration  is 
embodied,  he  was  restored  to  his  estate.  He  appears  to  have 
been  the  above  Lieutenant-Colonel,  and  to  have  commanded 
an  independent  Troop  of  sixty  men  after  the  before-mentioned 


BAB&£TT*S   IKFAKTRT.  689 

disbanding  of  Colonel  John  Barrefs  Regiment.     In  1683 
Teigue  0*Callaglian  passed  patent  for  377  acres  in  Cork. 

Beades  Lieutenant-Colonel  Donogh  and  John  Callaghan, 
an  Ensign  in  this  Regiment,  the  name  appears  commissioned 
in  Sutherland's,  Clifford's,  and  Maxwell's  Dragoons,  as  well 
as  in  the  In&ntry  Re^ments  of  Sirs  Valentine  and  Nicholas 
Browne,  Sir  Charles  O'Bryan,  Lords  Mountcashel  and 
Cknearty,  the  Earl  of  Antrim,  Sir  John  FitzQerald, 
Edmund  O'Reilly,  and  Lord  Galway.  On  the  29th  of 
October,  1690,  Lord  Barrymore  wrote  to  the  Duke  of  Wir- 
temberg:  ^'I  have  within  these  two  days  received  a  very 
humble  petition  on  behalf  of  Colonel  McDonogh,  Chief  of 
the  country  called  •  Duhallow,'  between  Mallow  and  the 
County  of  Kerry,  and  of  another  Chieftain  of  a  country 
called  O'Callaghan,  in  order  to  obtain  the  protection  of  their 
Majesties.  It  is  of  very  great  consequence  to  draw  over 
people  of  their  quality  and  interest,  who  will  bring  with  them 
a  thousand  men  and  at  least  seven  or  eight  thouslmd  cows."* 
The  Attainders  of  1691  include  the  above  Donogh  O'Cal- 
laghan, with  seven  others  of  the  name;  viz.,  Carthy  Callaghan 
of  Liscarthy ,  Cornelius  and  Dermot  of  Curraghtown,  Thadeus 
of  Dromalower,  Owen  of  Loughnane,  with  Mcvgan  and 
Patrick  of  Mount  Tallon  in  Clare.  In  the  latter  County 
this  Lieutenant'Colonel  had  estates,  off  which  Thadeus 
O'Callaghan,  on  behalf  of  Mary  his  wife,  claimed  at  Chi- 
chester House  and  was  allowed  her  dower;  while  the  same 
Thadeus  claimed  then  various  interests  in  Cork  and  Clare 
estates,  forfeited  by  said  Lieutenant-Colonel  and  by  the  Earl 
of  Clancarthy. 

'  After  the  Treaty  of  Limerick  in  1691,  and  the  consequent 

*  Clarice's  Corrup,,  MS.,  T.C.D.,  lettec  205. 
VOL.  II.  2  T 


690  KINO  James's  ibish  ajuct  list. 

departure  of  such  of  the  Irish  to  the  Contment,  as  would  not 
acknowledge  the  legitimacy  of  the  change  of  dynasty  effected 
by  the  Revolution,  the  name  of  O'Callaghan  is  honourably 
mentioned  in  France,  Spain,  and  Germany.  At  home  the 
head  of  a  branch  settled  at  Shanbally,  County  Tipperaiy, 
and  he,  being  of  the  established  religion  and  adhering  to  the 
Protestant  succession  in  the  House  of  Hanover,  was,  towards 
the  end  of  the  last  century,  created  a  Baron  and  Viscount 
Lismore,  amongst  the  few  representatives  of  the  ancient 
royal  names  of  the  country,  to  be  found  in  its  modem  peerage. 
The  late  Honourable  St  Bobert  William  O'Callaghan, 
second  son  of  the  first  Lord  Lismore,  was  the  greatest 
modem  military  representative  of  the  name.  From  Novem- 
ber, 1794,  when  he  entered  the  army,  he  spent  forty-six 
years  in  the  service,  during  which  he  highly  signalized  himself 
in  the  wars  against  Napoleon,  and  was  finally  Commander- 
in-Chief  of  the  forces  in  Scotland  and  India.  His  military 
honours  were  a  cross  for  the  batties  of  Maida,  V ittoria,  the 
Pyrenees,  and  the  Nivelle,  with  two  clasps  for  the  battles  of 
the  Nive  and  Orthes.  His  private  character  as  a  man  was 
not  less  esteemed  than  his  professional  one  as  a  soldier.*  * 

The  native  annalists  and  the  English  and  foreign  historians 
exhibit  this  once  princely  name  in  the  highest  positions  on  the 
field,  in  the  court,  at  the  bar;  while  it  has  been  not  less 
distinguished  in  Irish  literature,  as  evinced  in  the  author 
firom  whom  the  last  paragraph  has  been  borrowed,  and  whose 
retiring  habits  alone  have  withdrawn  him  to  tiie  exdunve 
enjoyment  of  his  own  devotion  to  National  literature. 


(/CaUaghofCs  Macaria  Exddktm^  p.  385,  n. 


babbstt's  infantbt.  691 


CAPTAIN  DAVID  COOSHENE. 

This  name,  with  varied  spelling,  is  of  record  in  Ireland  since 
the  time  of  Edward  the  Second.  The  ftunily  was  early 
settled  in  the  County  of  Cork,  of  which  branch  Captain 
David  was  a  member,  being  described  in  the  Inquisition  for 
his  attainder  as  of  Farrahy,  in  that  County.  Garret  *  Cushen,* 
of  the  same  place,  was  then  likewise  attainted,  as  was  Richard 
Cushen  of  Cushenstown,  County  of  Westmeath. 


CAPTAIN  FRANCIS  FYTTON. 

In  1608  Edward  Fytton,  of  Gawsworth  in  Cheshire,  son  of 
Sir  Edward  Fytton,  Knight,  deceased  (who  had  been  there- 
tofore, in  the  time  of  Elizabeth,  Lord  President  of  Connaught 
and  Treasurer  of  Ireland),  surrendered  to  the  Crovm  certain 
lands  in  Ireland,  which  had  been  granted  to  his  said  &ther  in 
1587,  with  the  object  of  obtaining  a  regrant  thereof.  Sir 
Edward  had  for  his  second  son,  Alexander,  who  was  the 
father  of  William ;  and  the  eldest  son  of  this  William  was 
the  Right  Honourable  Alexander  Fytton,  Knight,  Lord 
Chancellor  of  Ireland  in  the  time  of  King  James.  He  came 
over  to  this  country  with  Tyrconnel  in  February,  1686 ;  was 
created  Chancellor  in  the  following  year;  ennobled  by  the 
title  of  Baron  Gawsworth,  to  him  and  his  heirs  male  for  ever; 
and  sat  in  the  House  of  Peers  at  the  Parliament  of  1689. 
He  had  married  the  Lady  Anne  (daughter  of  Thomas  JoUiffe 


692  Kmo  JAMES'S  ibish  abmt  list. 

of  Worcestershire),  who  died  in  October,  1687,  and  was 
buried  in  St.  Patrick's  Cafliedral,  Dublin,  under  the  monu- 
ment of  her  husband's  ancestor,  the  aforesaid  Sr  £dward 
Fytton,  there  erected.*  The  Chancellor  was  attainted  in 
1691 ;  and  there  can  be  no  doubt  that  the  above  Captain  was 
of  this  fiunily.  The  Privy  Councillors  of  James,  v^faile  at  the 
Castle  of  Dublin,  were,  this 

Sir  Alazander  FjWml,  Lord  GhaoceUor ; 

Thomas  Nogent,  Lord  CSiief  Justice  of  the  King^s  Bench ; 

John  Keating,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas ; 

Sir  William  Ellis,!  Secretary  of  Stote; 

Bruno  Talbot,  Esq.,  ChanceQor  of  the  Exchequer ; 

Sir  Stephen  Rice,  Lord  Chief  Baron  of  the  Exchequer; 
Earl  of  Tyrconnel,  Thomas  ELunilton,  Esq., 

Eari  of  limerick.  Lord  Viscount  Ikerrin, 

Earl  of  Barry  more,  Lord  Yisoount  Galmoy, 

Adam  Loftos,  Esq.,  Mr.  Justice  Daly, 

Lemuel  Kingdon,  Esq.,  Richard  EEamilton,  Esq., 

Sir  Paul  Rycaut,  Sir  William  Wentwordi, 

Nicholas  Puroel,  Esq.,  Anthony  Hamilton,  Esq., 

Earl  of  Clanricard,  Thomas  Sheridan,  Esq., 

Eari  of  Antrim,  Simon  LuttreU,  Esq., 

Justin  McCarty^  Esq.,  Fitz-Gerald  VillerSi  Esq., 

Lord  Viscount  Gormanston,  Colonel  Granet  Moore, 

Lord  Viscount  Rosse,  Lord  Bellew, 

Earl  of  Tyrone,  Charies  White,  Esq., 

Lord  Nettenrille.  Colonel  Cormuck  O'Neill, 

Lord  Louth,  Frands  Plowden,  Esq.t 

Sir  William  Talbot, 

*  Funeral  Entry  in  Berm.  Tor. 
t  Bobert  'Elys*  is  msntloned  as  a  citisen  of  Duhlin  in  one  of  ths  ddest  vM^bbk 
records  of  the  Irish  Chancery.  In  1899  John  Elys  of  Dondalk  was  one  of  the  inflor 
ential  freeholders  of  Louth,  commisstoned  to  assess  and  collect  a  state  sobsidy  over 
Louth.  On  the  BoU  of  Adjudications  for  the  *1649'  Officers  appear  the  names  of 
Majors  Edmund^  and  Foulke  Ellis.  This  Sir  WilUam  was  SoIicitor>G«n«nl  for  Ire- 
land in  1667,  and  was  one  of  the  Baronets  created  by  CromweU. 

t  Mtmoin  pflrdmtd^  pub.  1716,  pfk  61-3. 


BABBETT'6  INFA17T&T.  693 


CAPTAIN  WILLIAM  SHEEHAN. 

The  O'Sheehans  were  a  sept  in  Cork  and  Limerick,  and 
this  Captain  is  described  in  his  attainder  as  of  Rathcomaine 
in  the  former  county. 


CAPTAIN  DOMINICK  MEADE. 

This  officer  appears  to  have  been  a  son  of  Sir  John  Meade 
(who,  dying  in  1626,  was  buried  at  Kilmallock),  by  E[atherine, 
daughter  of  Sir  Dominick  Sarsfield.  The  names  of  Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel William  and  Captain  John  Meade  appear  on 
the  Roll  of  Adjudications  for  the  '  1649 '  Officers.  Captain 
Dominick  is  not  mentioned  in  the  attainders  of  1691,  but  only 
Robert  and  Thomas  Meade,  alias  Myagh,  of  Elinsale,  and 
John  Meade  of  Knocknamihill,  County  of  Wicklow.  The 
latter  was  a  Captain  in  the  Earl  of  Westmeath's  In&ntry, 
while  one  of  the  two  first  was  an  Ensign  in  the  King's  Own, 
as  was  the  other  in  Colonel  Charles  Cayenagh^s.  Singer,  in 
his  Correspondence  of  Lord  Clarendon  (v.  ii.  p.  122),  mentions 
a  Sir  John  Meade,  Knight,  as  of  the  Irish  bar  in  the  time  of 
that  nobleman's  Vice-Royalty,  but  then  of  such  high  practice, 
that  the  Earl  of  Clarendon  considered  he  would  not  retire 
from  it,  to  be  placed  upon  the  Bench. 

Of  the  Chevalier  de  Meade,  Colonel  of  the  Regiment  of 
Clare  in  1774,  see  O^CallagharCs  Brigades^  vol.  1,  p.  95. 


694  KINO  JAME8*8  IRISH  ABMT  LIST. 


CAPTAIN  GEORGE  HENESSY. 

Th£  O^HeneesyB  were  of  the  race  of  Cahir  More^  Chiefs  of 
Clan-Colgan,  in  the  King's  County,  and  the  territory  that  b 
now  stjied  the  Barony  of  Moygoish,  County  of  Weatmeath. 
In  1480  Nicholas  O'Henesa  was  Bishop  of  Waterfbrd  and 
Lismore.  In  1646  Charles  Henessy  of  Cnteigyn  vras  one  of 
the  Confederate  Catholics.  In  1667  Ananias  'Henaey*  had 
a  confirmatory  grant  of  943  acres  in  the  Eang's  County^  as 
had  Joshua  Hensey  of  other  604,  and  Thomas  Hensey  of  242 
about  the  same  time  therein;  while  in  1679  Philip  Henesy 
passed  patent  for  a  small  allotment  in  Clare.  The  immediate 
fiunily  of  Captain  George  has  not  been  ascertained,  but  he 
seems  the  same  whom  Dr.  O'Donovan  styles  Colonel,  and 
who,  he  says,*  followed  the  fortunes  of  James  the  Second 
beyond  the  seas. 


LIEUTENANT  JOHN  HEAPHY. 

Nothing  has  been  learned  concerning  this  officer  or  his 
family. 


ENSIGN  THOMAS  CART. 

Thb  Four  Masters  record  the  sept  of  'O'Carey'  as  Lords  of 
Carbury,  in  the  County  of  Eildare,  from  a  very  early  period 
of  native  history.    Sir  George  Cary ,  of  Cockington  in  Devon- 

^  Book  of  B^fhtB,  p.  189. 


vm  F 


babbett's  inpantbt.  696 

shire,  wsa  one  of  the  assistant  council  to  the  Lord  President 
of  Munster  in  1599,  and  he  was  immediately  after  appointed 
Lord  Treasurer  of  Lreland.  Another  member  of  this  house 
married  Mary  Boleyn,  sister  of  Queen  Anne  Boleyn,  and  was 
ancestor  of  the  Careys,  Lords  Hunsdon,  and  Earls  of  Dover, 
each  of  which  lines  gave  a  Colonel  to  King  James's  service  in 
L*eland.  In  1622  Sir  Henry  Cary,  also  of  Cockington,  and  who 
had  been  two  years  previously  elevated  to  the  Peerage  of  Scot- 
land, as  Viscount  Falkland,  was  constituted  Lord  Lieutenant 
of  Lreland.  In  1667  Peter,  son  and  heir  of  Captain  Peter 
Carey  deceased,  and  Sarah  his  widow  had  a  grant  of  1 ,619  acres 
in  Cork,  in  pursuance  of  a  previous  Cromwellian  certificate. 
In  the  same  year  Captain  Edward  Cary  had  a  like  patent  for 
253  acres  in  Monaghan,  enlarged  by  an  additional  grant  of 
518  acres  there  in  1669.  The  List  of  Sheriffs  proposed  for 
Lord  Clarendon's  adoption  in  1685,  named  for  the  County 
Wexford,  Robert  Cary,  an  Ensign,  'son  of  an  old  Oliverian;' 
to  which  his  Lordship  subjoined  the  xemark, '  Never  a  soldier, 
descended  but  meanly,  his  &ther  and  mother  being  merely 
Irish  and  Roman  Catholics,  their  former  name  Mac  Cream. 
He  has  an  estate  of  £800  per  ann,,  got  by  purchasing 
soldiers'  debentures,  and  is  thought  by  some  to  be  a  Boman 
Catholic'  On  the  Boll  of  Adjuclications  for  the  '  1649 '  Officers 
appear  the  names  of  Captain  David  and  Lieutenants  Theo- 
philus  and  Thomas  Carey.  Robert '  Carey'  of  Cork,  merchant, 
is  the  only  one  of  the  name  who  appears  on  the  Attainders  of 
1691,  wd  no  evidence  has  been  found  of  Ensign  Thomas's 
lineage. 


696  KINO  JAH£8*8  IRISH  ABXT  LIST. 


ENSIGN  PATKICK  PHELAN. 


The  eept  of  the  OThdaoB  is  recorded  in  the  earliest  annak 
of  Ireland.    They  were  styled  Princes  of  Desies,  a  territory 
comprising  the  greater  part  of  the  County  of  Waterfbrd,  with 
a  portion  of  Tipperary.    Malachy  OThelan  was  their  chief  at 
the  time  of  the  Anglo-Norman  invasion,  and  his  was  the 
I»incipal  native  force  that,  in  co-operation  with  the  Danes  of 
Waterford,  sought,  but  unsuccessfully,  to  hold  that   city 
against  the  new  comers.    Malachy  was  taken  prisoner,  and 
condemned  to  die,  but  his  life  was  spared  on  the  intercession 
of  Dermod  McMurrough,  who  had  on  that  day  come  down 
from  Ferns  to  celebrate  the  marriage  of  his  daughter  with 
Strongbow.    A  King  of  the  Desies  was  long  after  recognised, 
and  was  summoned,  as  such,  in  1245  to  aid  Henry  the  Third 
in  the  Scottish  war;  but  the  sept,  having  been  subsequently 
expelled  from  their  old  homes,  some,  after  a  brief  sojourn  in 
Westmeath,  crossed  the  Shannon  into  Connaught,  where 
they  spelt  their  name,  OTallon,  and  a  district  m  Roscommon, 
between  Athlone  and  the  County  of  Galway,  was  hence 
known  as  OTallons'  country,  while  the  sept  was  distinguished 
as  the  OTallons  of  Clanhudach. 

In  the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth  Bedmond  OTallon  was 
the  Chief.  Of  his  estates  Edmund  OTallon  had  livery,  as 
his  son  and  heir,  in  1606,  of  which  in  the  'unsettling'  settle- 
ments of  James  the  First,  he  thought  it  prudent  to  take  out 
a  fresh  patent.  It  bore  date  in  1612,  and  confirmed  to  him 
the  manor,  castle,  town,  and  land  of  Miltown,  in  the  barony 
of  Athlone,  with  sundry  lands  and  a  water-mill  annexed; 
part  of  Ballyforan  near  the  Suck,  its  island  and  fishing  weir, 


• «      ■•   •    ^m^g^^^^^^^^^^^^^^rmm^i^m  i   tm    ■  i^ni— ^— w^p-ip— ^iy^^»^i^ir--^Wi  »«*>^i^— ip^^ 


BAfiBJSTT'S  INFANTBT.  697 

the  castle  of  Turrock,  'moieties*  of  the  castles  of  Newtown 
and  Balljglass,  with  lands  and  chieiries  in  the  County  of 
Roscommon,  and  markets  and  fairs  at  Miltown,  besides  other 
premises  at  Balrath,  in  Westmeath.  These  interests  he  was 
obliged  to  claim  on  petition  to  the  Commissioners  at  Athlone 
after  the  ciyil  war  of  1641,  as  were  eight  other  proprietors 
within  the  OTallons*  country,  the  claims  of  all  seeking 
restoration  as  to  their  ancient  ancestral  estates.  The  Supreme 
Council  of  Catholics  in  1646  was  attended  by  two  members 
of  this  sept,  William  Fallon  of  Miltown  and  Stephen  Fallon 
of  Athlone.  In  1677  another  Edmund  O'Fallon,  styled  of 
Mote,  passed  patent  for  344  acres  in  Galway,  as  did  a  John 
Failon  for  131  in  Roscommon.  In  some  years  after  these 
grants  Redmond  Fallon,  the  lineal  descendant  of  Redmond 
O'Fallon  of  the  time  of  Elizabeth,  married  Margaret,  the 
sister  of  Owen  O'Connor  of  Corxasduna,  as  mentioned  herein 
before,  (vol.  1,  p.  142,)  and  who,  as  expressly  stated  in  an 
andient  pedigree  of  the  O'Fallon  fiunily  drawn  up  by  her  son, 
was  one  of  the  daughters  of  Colonel  Roger  O'Connor.  The 
said  son  erected  a  monument  in  the  churchyard  of  Dysart, 
the  fiunily  burial  place  within  the  old  territory,  commemo- 
rating his  own  wife  and  his  said  father  and  mother,  Redmond 

and  Margaret  O'Connor. On  this  Army  List  one  of  the 

name  of  Failon  was  the  Chaplain  to  Sir  Thomas  Butler's 
Infantry ;  while  of  the  name  of  Phelan,  James,  was  then  the 
Roman  Catholic  Bishop  of  Ossory.  On  the  Attainders  of 
1691  the  name  of  Patrick  Phelan  does  not  appear,  but  only 
those  of  Hugo  Mac  Phelan  and  Shane  Mac  Phelan,  both 
described  as  of  the  County  Donegal.  See  further  of  those 
two  septs,  D' Alton's  Annals  of  Boyle^  toI.  2,  p.  189,  &c. 


698 


KIKO  JAlfBS  8  IBI8H  ARBIT  LIST. 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 


COLONEL  CHARLES  O'BBTAN'S. 


TheColoneL 

La  Motto  Darqnet, 
Lieatoiuuit-ColoiieL 

Wniiam  Sftzby, 
Hi^or. 

ComeliiiB  H'MahoiL 

llkomas  Magrath. 

Dermott  O'CaOaghan. 

Daniel  'Malooney.* 

IgnatiiiB  SanfleLd. 

McfTgan  Connell. 

Donogh  O^Biyan. 

Tnrlo  M^Mahon. 

Donogh  M*Namaxs. 

John  Bice. 

Thady  H^Namara. 

Tdgae  Bran. 
Wifiiam  Bourke. 

Daniel  NeQand, 
Grenad. 

Thomas  Fitz-Gerald. 


M'Naman. 
Bute. 


Thomas  Bany. 
Teigae  0*BiyaxL 
Winter  Biidgman. 

James  ^Malooney.* 
William  Sheenan. 
Edward  Baiiy. 
Barnard  Sale. 
Heniy  M«Donongh. 
Donogh  M<Namara. 
Donogh  CBiyan. 
Philip  Dwyer. 

V  Nicholas  Comyn. 

{John  Hnrley. 
Dominick  White. 

Michael 'Scankn.* 


M^Namaim. 
White. 


Thomas  Boorke. 
Theobald  Bonike. 
Calla  O'Callahane. 

Stephen  Striteh. 
Joseph  Sarsfldd. 
Teigae  OonneU. 
Teigae  CHeighir. 
Morto  M<Mahon. 
Thomas  Qrady. 
Patrick  White. 
Dodd. 

Lewis  Ryan. 


} 


— ^  de  Bomig,  QiUBrter'MaitUT. 

Reverend Hurley,  Chaplaiin, 

—  Bolton,  SttrgwiL 


0'BBTAN*8  INFAITTRT,  699 


COLONEL  CHARLES  O'BRYAN. 

This  officer  was  the  joimger  son  of  Daniel  O'Bryan,  Lord 
Clare,  at  whose  Regiment  a  memoir  of  this  name  is  given. 
The  title  subsequently  devolved  upon  the  above  Charles,  on 
the  death  of  his  elder  brother  Daniel  at  Pignerol  in  1693. 
This  Colonel  commanded  a  Cavalry  Regiment  at  the  siege  of 
Limerick. 


MAJOR  WILLIAM  SAXBY. 

It  is  conjectured  that  this  name  should  be  spelt  '  Saxey.*  A 
William  Saxey  was,  in  1599,  Chief  Justice  of  Munster,  and 
a  Justice  of  the  Queen's  Bench ;  while  a  namesake  of  his, 
probably  his  son,  commanded  a  troop  in  the  war  of  that  period 
and  province. 


CAPTAIN  DANIEL  MOLONY. 

The  O'Molonys  were  Chiefs  of  Cuiltonan,  now  known  as  the 
parish  of  Kiltonconlea  in  the  Barony  of  Tulla,  County  of 
Clare. 

In  1646  John  O'Molony  was  the  Roman  Catholic  Bishop 
of  Killaloe,  in  which  rank  he  sat  as  a  Spiritual  Peer  at  the 
Supreme  Council  of  Kilkenny.      He  had  taken  refuge  in 


700  KINO  JAXBS'fl  IRISH  ASKT  UST. 

France  before  King  James  had  crosBed  over  to  Ireiaiid,  and 
there  he  asflisted  in  founding,  at  Paris,  a  IJnivernty  for  the 
education  of  the  Irish  priesthood.  He  was  attainted  in  1696 
by  the  style  of  '  Titolar  Bishop  of  KilMoe.' 

The  above  officer  may  be  {Hresomed  to  have  been  of  the 
Cotltonan  or  Kiltannon  Midonys,  and  his  estates  in  Clare 
were,  in  1703,  sold  by  the  Coounissiraias  of  the  F<Mrfeitare8 
to  Thomas  St.  John,  of  Ballymull  Castle  in  the  same  oounty. 

In  1786  Cdonel  Sir  James  Stadcpole  M<dony  volunteered 
on  a  forloin  hope  connected  with  the  reduction  of  MontreaL 
He  had  one  hundred  men  under  his  command,  who  were  with 
himself  all  cut  down,  excepting  only  seven.* 


CAPTAIN  TEIGUE  RYAN.  . 

The  O'Byans  were  Lords  of  Idrone  in  the  County  of  Cadow, 
and  w^re  also  established  in  that  of  Tipperary,  the  name 
being  not  un&equentiy  styled  O'Mulryan.  When  Baymond 
le  Chros,  tiie  avantHxmrier  of  Strongbow,  landed  at  Bagganbun 
on  the  Ist  of  M4y,  1170,  he  proceeded  with  his  forces  to 
make  himself  master  of  Waterfbrd,  which  stood  within  a  few 
miles  of  his  place  of  debarkation.  The  Danes,  however,  and 
the  Irish  of  the  dty  joined  in  sallying  out  to  oppose  his 
advance,  when  a  severe  conflict  took  place,  in  which,  amongst 
others,  O'Byan,  Prince  of  Idrone,  was  slain.  In  1319 
Melaghlin    *  0*Bian '    sued  out   a   patent   of  pardon  and 

protection. In  1452  James,  Earl  of  Ormonde,  demolished 

the  Castie  of  Connor  O'Mulryan,  at  Owney  in  the  County  of 


*  Dtddin  Journal^  Jdaxdk  9t^  178& 


o'bbtak's  infakt&t.  701 

Tipperaiy.  In  Perrot's  Parliament  of  1585  this  powerful 
dan  was  represented  by  Conor,  son  of  William  earrcLch^  son 
of  Dermod  O'MuIrian,  Lord  of  Uaithne  O'Mulrjan^  i.€.,  the 
Baronies  of  Owney  and  Owneybeg  in  tbe  Counties  of  Tip- 
perary  and  Limerick.  A  manuscript  in  Trinity  CoUege, 
Dublin  (F.  iii.  27)  gives  links  of  the  pedigree  of  the  O^Byans 
or  O'MuIryans  of  Sollo^ode,  Cotinty  of  Tipperary,  for  seren 
generations  in  the  sixteenth  and  seventeenth  centuries.  Of 
this  family  was  Connor  O'Mulrian  ^  bom  ^  in  the  County  of 
tiie  Cross-Tipperary,  Bishop  of  Killaloe,  resident  at  Lisbon, 
and  supported  by  a  pension  from  the  King  of  Spain  and  from 
the  Archbishop  of  that  city. 

Li  1588  died  David  O^Byan  seised  of  lands  in  Kilkenny, 
leaving  Walter  his  son  and  heir  then  of  full  age  and  married, 
who  died  in  1598,  his  son  and  heir  David,  junior,  was  then 
also  of  age  and  mairied.  On  Liquisition  of  1607  Teigue  the 
son  of  Teigue  O^Byan,  with  fourteen  others  of  the  Sept,  were 
found  seised  of  lands  in  Ejlkenny.  In  1610  William  Byan 
surrendered  to  the  King  various  priories,  churches,  castles, 
8t<Hie  houses,  towns,  lands,  and  chiefries ;  and  all  his  rights  of 
or  in  the  Barony  of  Owney-O'Mulrian ;  whereupon  he  received 
back  a  regrant  thereof  to  hold  in  capiie  by  knighf  s  service. 
Other  estates  in  the  County  of  Kilkenny,  of  members  of  this 
Sept  who  were  attunted,  were  granted,  in  1617,  to  Sir  James 
Ware  of  Dublin ;  and  yet  more  in  the  following  year  to 
Francis  Edgeworth,  assignee  of  Sir  John  Eyres,  Knight. 
Bobert  Byan  of  Kilcullan  Bridge  was  attainted  in  1642,  and 
Thomas  O'Byan  of  Doone  was  a  member  of  the  Supreme 

Council. Besides  the  above  Captain  Teigue  and  Ensign 

Lewis  in  this  Regiment,  the  name  appears  in  four  others  of 
this  List ;  viz.,  in  Galmoy's  and  Purcell's  Horse,  Clarets 
Dragoons,  and  Mountcashers  Infantry.     The  declaration  of 


702  Koro  jamsb's  ibish  abmt  ust. 

Boyml  tlmikB  in  1662  indnden  two  of  this  nmie,  Kdmimd 
O^Mahnn  of  *  Duliflhe  Mmmn,*  and  Dermot  (XMimkii, 
both  of  Ihe  County  of  'Hppemy.  In  1667  Edmond  Byan 
had  a  oonfirmatorj  grant  of  360  acres  in  Tippeaarj^  as  had 
William  Byan  in  1679  of  705  in  Chate,  and  Dari>y  and 
Tdgne  Ryan  of  333  in  Gahray.  A  few  weeks  befefe  the 
CBfntohiion  of  limerick,  a  Identenant  Cokmel  O^yan  was 
taken  prisoner  in  a  skirmish  with  Brigadier  Levison's  party.* 
Foot  ct  the  name  were  attainted  in  1696,  with  Ci^tain 
Tdgne,  m.,  John  Byan  ci  Monagrenagh,  Coonty  Chve; 
Charles  of  Ullardstown  in  Kilkenny,  with  Dominick  and 
Darby  of  Dublin;  the  latter  was  also  seised  of  lands  at 
Monagrenagfa,  off  which  his  widow's  chum  for  dower  was 
dismist.  Another  Darby  Byan  daJmed  an  estate  tail  epeatl 
in  Teigoe's  interest  in  said  lands  of  Monagrenagh;  disallowed. 
Connor  Byan,  mcnre  soocessfol,  was  aUowed  an  estate  in  fee 
in  Chure  lands  of  Martin  Byan;  while  Daniel  Byan,  a  minor, 
daimed,  by  his  guardian,  an  estate  tail  in  the  Kilkenny  lands 
ct  Charles  Byan — dismist.  Margaret  Byan,  otherwise 
*  Daton,'  however,  the  widow  of  said  Charles,  ckimed  and 
was  allowed  a  small  jointure  thereoffl  The  Byans'  confiscated 
estates  in  the  County  of  Clare  (883  acres)  were  purchased  by 
John  iTers  of  Mount  lyers,  John  Cusack  of  Kilkisheen  in 
said  county,  and  by  Hector  Vaugfaan  of  Knocknemail,  King's 
County,  severaUy. 

Laeutenant  James  Byan,  in  Clare's  Brigade,  was  wounded 
at  Lanffield  in  1747.  He  was  the  second  son  of  Jeremiah 
Byan,  Esq.,  of  Dangamnore,  in  the  County  of  Kilkenny,  and, 
after  his  said  services  in  the  Brigade,  suflfered  a  long  confine- 
ment in  the  Castle  of  Bicetre,  and  subsequently  in  Amiens, 

•  Starts  In^partkd  Bmta^  Tpuri  IL,  p.  209. 


0*BBTAN*8   INFANTRT.  708 

from  which  he  was  not  released  until  the  oommencement  of 
1795,  in  the  August  of  which  year  he  died.  Luke  Bjan,  a 
native  of  Rush  near  Dublin,  some  time  in  Dillon's  Begiment 
at  Dunkirk,  was  subsequently  much  celebrated  in  the 
American  war  as  commander  of  the  Blctck  Prince  privateer, 
under  commission  of  the  French  government.  This  bold 
adventurer  was  tried  as  a  pirate  at  the  Old  Bailey  in  1782; 
and  then,  and  on  three  subsequent  occasions,  ordered  for 
execution,  but  reprieved.  On  the  conclusion  of  peace  he 
obtained  his  liberty  through  the  mediation  of  the  Court  of 
Versailles,  and  expected  to  enjoy  the  hard-earned  fruits  of  his 
daring  and  reckless  exploits — a  fortune  of  £70,000,  which  he 
had  lodged  in  a  mercantile  house  at  Boscoff  in  Brettany ;  but 
his  crafty  bankers,  taking  advantage,  it  is  said,  of  his  legal 
incapacity  to  sue,  applied  that  large  sum  to  their  own  use, 
and  the  wild  career  of  this  bold  seaman  terminated  in  the 
fs  Bench  Prison,  where  he  died  in  1789.* 


CAPTAIN  DANIEL  NEILAND. 

In  reference  to  this  name  it  can  only  be  stated,  that  his  name* 
sake  Daniel  'Nelan*  was  Bishop  of  Ejldare  in  1583;  that  in 
1611  Donald  Cooke  had  a  grant  of  the  wardship  of  James, 
son  and  heir  of  Daniel  Neylan,  late  of  Ballyelly  in  the  County 
of  Clare,  deceased;  and  that  William  Nelane  had  in  1678  a 
confirmatory  grant  of  495  acres  in  the  same  County,  while  in- 
1681  Edward  Nelane,  Anny,  his  wife,  Mick  Nelane,  EUen, 
liis  wife,  and  Edward  Nelane,  junior,  son  of  said  Mick  and 

*  I/AUon's  History  of  County  DubUn^  p.  481. 


704  Knro  ^axbs's  msH  abxt  u8t< 


EDeD,  pMied  puteiit  for  152  aerat  «ko  m  Ckie ^WDlhm 

^Kcjdta*  was  a  Coniet,  md  JaoMs  ^Neyka*  a  Qiarter-Mjifter, 
in  Lotd  Chie*9  Dngoons. 


LIEUTENANT  WINTER  BBID6MAN. 

A  Grakt  <^  lands  in  Clare  in  1670  to  Cornelioa  Claacfay 
contained  a  saving  of  the  riglit  of  Henrj  Bridgman  to  a 
mortgage  thereon^  and  the  patent  prescribed  that  certun 
paicelsy  therd>7  conveyedf  should  be  called  for  ever  Castle 
Bridgman,  and  other  parcels  Bridgmans-town.  In  1747 
Harry  Bridgman,  a  Lieutenant  in  Clare's  Brigade,  was  killed 
at  Lauffield. 


LIEUTENANT  WILLIAM  SHEENAN. 

Ik  1645  William  Shynan,  styled  of  Moshaneglass,  County  of 
Cork,  and  possibly  the  gtandfather  o(  the  above  Lieutenant, 
was  attainted;  while  in  twenty  years  after,  Dermot  O'Shinan, 
of  the  County  of  Limerick,  received,  in  the  Act  of  Settlement, 
Royal  thanks  for  services  beyond  the  sea.  The  attainder  of 
this  officer  describes  him  as  of  Kilbolane,  Coimty  of  Cork. 


LIEUTENANT  BARNARD  SALE. 

The  name  of  ^  Sale'  and  *  Salle*  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from 
the  time  of  Edward  the  Second,  but  nothing  has  been  ascer- 
tained of  this  officer  or  his  fiimily.  Two  of  the  name  of 
'  Sales'  were  Comet  and  Quarter-Master  respectively  in  Sir 
Neill  O'Neill^s  Dragoons. 


o'bstan's  infantbt.  705 


LIEUTENANT  NICHOLAS  COMYN. 

The  name  de  Comine,  Comines  or  Comyn  is  of  Norman 
origin,  introduced  into  England  at  the  conquest,  whence  it 
soon  afterwards  extended  to  Scotland.  In  Ireland  it  is  of 
record  from  the  time  of  Edward  the  Second,  and,  on  Ortelius's 
Map,  the  family  is  especiallj  located  in  the  Barony  of  Small- 
County,  Limerick. 

In  1181  John  Comyn,  a  native  of  England,  was,  on  the 
recommendation  of  Henry  the  Second,  elected  Archbishop  of 
Dublin.  '*  When  that  monarch  could  no  longer  keep  this  see 
vacant  and  absorb  its  revenues,  he  resolved  that  a  dignity  of 
so  much  influence  and  value  should  not  be  entrusted  to  an 
Irishman ;  entertaining  some  apprehensions,  perhi^  justifi- 
able at  the  crisis,  that  a  native  might  consummate  with  more 
hostilily  those  political  objects  wUch  his  predecessor.  Arch- 
bishop Laurence  O^Toole,  laboured  to  effect  in  peace."* 

In  1325  William  'Comyn'  had  a  treasury  order  for  seventy 
pounds,  on  account  of  his  expenses  in  the  marches  of  Leinster, 
exploring  the  passes  of  the  Irish  of  the  mountains,  and  doing 
service  to  the  state;  as  well  as  by  slaying  Moriertagh,  son  of 
Hugh  Oge  O'Toole,  and  taking  prisoners  sundry  others  of 
the  mountwi  septs,  and  delivering  them  into  the  Castle  of 
Dublin.t  He  was  afterwards  knighted,  and  had  a  grant  of 
lands  within  the  manor  of  Balgriff^,  near  Dublin.  In  1356 
he  was  appointed  Captain  of  the  Ward  of  TaUaght,  a  very 

*  l^AUorCi  Memoin  of  the  Archbishops  ofDubUnj  p.  68. 
t  RoL  Claia,  18  Bdw.  3  Ckme.  Wh. 
VOL.  II.  2  z 


706  KING  JAMES'S  IBI8H  ABHT  LIST. 

important  poet  of  tmBt  in  the  ensting  state  of  the  Pale:  in 
the  same  year  he  was  Sheriff  and  Escheator  of  Dnblin.  In 
1382  Humphrey  Comyn  was  Sheriff  of  the  Crosses  of  the 
County  of  Tipperary.  In  1390  Jordan  Com]^!  was  one  of 
two  influential  proprietors  appointed  to  assess  and  collect  a 
state  subsidy  off  the  Barony  of  Moygoish^  County  of  Meath 
(afterwards  Westmeath),  as  was  John  Comyn  to  a  like  duty 
in  the  Baronies  of  Delvin,  MuUingar,  and  Ferbill.  In  1418 
Thomas  Comyn  was  Mayor  of  Limerick,  and  about  the  same 
time  Elizabeth  Comyn  was  seised  of  the  manor  and  lordship 
of  Bannow,  County  of  Wexford. 

Greorge  Comyn  of  Limerick  was  one  of  the  Confed^ates  at 
the  Supreme  Coundl  of  Kilkenny  in  1646.  Captain  John 
and  Major  Philip  Comine  appear  on  the  Boll  of  Adjudications 
of  Decrees  for  the  '  1649 '  Officers,  In  1681  John  Comyne  and 
Margaret,  his  wife  (daughter  of  Dame  Joan  White)  had  a 
confirmatory  grant  of  213  acres  in  Clare,  to  hold  to  their  heirs 

male,  remainder  to  her  right  heirs  for  ever, Besides  this 

Lieutenant,  a  William  Comyn  was  one  of  the  Enogns  in 
Colonel  Butler's  In&ntry,  as  was  — <^-  Comin  in  Sir  John 
FitzGerald's,  and  «  third  in  Lord  Mountcashers ;  yet  none  of 
these  names  appear  attainted  in  1691,  but  only  a  James 
*  Coman'  of  Kilorea.  At  the  sale  of  the  Forfeited  Estates  in 
1703,  John  Cusack  of  Kilkiseene,  County  of  Clare,  purchased 
an  estate  in  that  county,  which  had  theretofore  been  the  pro- 
perty of  John  Comyn. 


LIEUTENANT  MICHAEL  SCANLAN. 

The  Mac  Scanlans  were  a  sept  of  Louth,  from  whom  the 
ancient  locality  of  Bally-Mac-Scanlan  took  its  name.     The 


O'BBTAN'8  jp^ANTBT.  707 

O'Scanlans,  of  whom  this  officer  appears  to  have  been  a 
member,  were  of  Pobble-OBrien  in  the  Counties  of  Limerick 
and  Kerry.  In  1261  Dr.  Patrick  0*Scanlan,  who  had  pre- 
viously been  Bishop  of  Baphoe,  was  translated  to  the  Primacy 
of  Armagh. 


ENSIGN  — -  DODD, 

This  name,  of  an  antiquity  that  preceded  the  Norman 
Conquest  of  England,  was  found  then  widely  scattered  over 
its  various  districts,  and  is  now  principally  represented  by 
Whitehall  Dod  of  Cloverley  in  Shropshire.  In  the  reign  of 
Edward  the  Third  a  branch  of  this  family  was  transplanted  to 
Ireland,  and  its  descendants  are  traceable  thence  in  the  records 
of  that  country.  Early  in  the  reign  of  James  the  First,  Boger 
Dod,  who  had  been  Dean  of  Salop,  was  consecrated  Bishop  of 
Meath ;  he  died  however  soon  after  his  appointment.  Charles 
Dod  was  a  Captain  in  the  army  of  his  Boyal  namesake,  and, 
having  been  taken  prisoner  at  Edge-hill,  was  only  released  by 
interest  made  with  Cromwell,  whereupon  he  was  sent  pyer  to 
Ireland,  where  he  married  a  daughter  of  Edward  King,  the 
first  Protestant  Bishop  of  Elphin,  by  whom  he  had  two  sons, 
James  and  John;  the  latter  had  by  his  wife.  Miss  Sterling, 
six  sons.  In  1654  Paul  Dodd  was  one  of  the  Sheriffs  of 
Galway,  and  its  Mayor  in  two  years  after.  Two  of  this  name 
were  however  attainted  in  Eling  James's  Parliament  of  1689, 
being  described  *  of  Wexford,'  as  was  another  '  of  the  County 
Sligo,'  while  no  Dodd  appears  on  the  outlawries  of  1691. 


708  KIKO  JAKES'S  IBI8H  ABMT  LIST. 


EEGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY, 

COLOHEIi  DANISIi  O'DONOVAN'S. 


TkeColoneL  -• - 

CkMneHw  O'Drtaoon, 
Hentenant-Cotond. 

SirAlphonwMottit, 

DoDo^  ODoDOVSiL            Blehaid  DonoTiB. 
DKOiel  Fitz-RklMurd  

O'DOOOTUL 

Daniel  BcgUL  ..,*.. . 

.PanieL  O^Dononn,  JwL      — 

Joseph  Fox, 

GrauuL 


Denis  M*Crog]uuL 

Baadall  Hnile^. 

Tsigne  Hiixlaf . 

John  ICahon.  pfiUyoj.  ..,— Gv^gsof. 

—  0*Mahop. 
Wnfiam  Coggaa. 
Danif  ICahony. 

—  Gareir. 
James  Goolde. 
Der.  0*C<miior. 
Denia  M'Cartieu 
Teigne  M*Gartle. 
Teigne  0*DonoTan. 

Daniel  M'Do&oagh  (yDonoran. 
Bicfaard  ODonavan. 
Hn^  Donovan. 

All  the  names,  below  the  middle  line,  are  gathered  Scorn  the 
very  interesting  fiunilj  papers  of  the  O'Donoyan.  They  also 
notice  seventeen  lieutenants,  fifteen  Ensigns,  six  *  Beforma- 
dos,*  a  Chaplain,  and  a  Qnarter-Master;  but  none  appear  in 
the  Army  List,  here  undertaken  to  be  illustrated;  nor  are 
they  classed  into  tiieir  respectiye  companies. 


O'dONOVAN'8  INFAITTBY.  709 


COLONEL  DANIEL  O'DONOVAN. 

The  O'Donovans  were  at  a  very  early  period  Gbiefs  of 
Cairbre-Aodbha,  the  present  Barony  of  Kenry,  County  of 
Limerick,  where  their  chief  Castle  was  at  Bruree.  They 
afterwards  moved  southward  over  the  plains  of  Hy-Figeinte, 
situated  in  the  Barony  of  Conilloe,  in  the  same  county,  and 
extending  into  Kerry.  ''When  driven  thence,"  writes  the 
well-known  Lish  antiquarian.  Doctor  O'Donovan,  ''by  the 
Baron  of  OffiJey,  they  appear  to  have  sunk  into  comparative 
inferiority  in  their  newly  acquired  settlements  in  O'Driscoll's 
country,  whither  they  were  soon  followed  by  a  branch  of  the 
McCarthys,  similarly  expulsed  from  the  plains  of  Cashel:  one 
fact  is  certain^  that  they  (the  O'Donovans)  paid  no  tribute  in 
Hy  Figeinte,  as  being  senior  te  both  McCarthy  and  O'Brien, 
descended  as  they  were  firom  Daire  Cearb,  the  second  son  of 
OlioU  Flannbeg,  King  of  Munster,  while  the  McCarthys 
came  from  Lughaidh,  the  third  son  of  the  same  Olioll."  It 
does,  however,  appear  that  in  this,  their  Cork  territory,  they 
were  Lords  of  Clan-Cathail,  an  extensive  district  in  West 
Carbery,  with  their  chief  residence  at  Castle  Donovan,  while 
the  Castles  of  Banduff  and  Bahine  also  belonged  to  them. 

This  Sept  declined  to  send  any  Bepresentative  to  Perrot*s 
Parliament  of  1585.  Donell  O'Donovan  was  then  their 
Chief,  as  proved  by  a  decree  of  Chancellor  Loftus,  dated  12th 
February,  1592,  wherein  it  was  decided  that  "  Donell 
O'DonOvan,  son  of  Donell  McTeigue,  by  Ellen  ny  Leary  his 
wife,  had  proved  his  lawful  election  in  1584,  as  the  O'Dono- 
van  in  succession  to  his  father,  who  died  seised  of  the  Lordship 
and  hereditaments  of  Clancahill,  being  a  customary  Lordship, 
and  that  Sir  Owen  Mac  Cartie  reagh  was  Chieftam  of  Carbrie 


710  KIKG  JAXES^  UOBB  ASMT  U8T. 

bj  right,  and  not  by  usmpation,  when  he  detivered  a  '  lodd  * 
to  Donnell  now  'O'DonoTan;'  and  Donellt  being  the  dder 
brother,  the  comphdnants  being  both  of  one  fiuher  and  mother, 
after  marriage  dnly  cdebrated,  he  had  best  right  to  soooeed 
his  said  fiither  and  to  be  O^Danovan,  and  to  have  and  eaajoy 
the  lordship  of  CbmcahOL''*  This  DoneD  was  itfterwarda 
actirely  engaged  in  the  war  of  Mnnster;  and  he,  with  Flo- 
rence Mac  Cartie  and  Owen  Mac  *E!ggan,'  at  the  dose  of 
the  year  1599,  directed  an  appeal  to  iniote  the  co-operation 
of  Donogh  Moyle  Mac  Cartie  in  their  oppomdon  to  the 
Qoeen ;  <5oncIading,  '*  Therefore,  if  ever  jou  will  be  roled  by 
OS,  or  tender  the  wealth  of  yourself  and  your  country,  we  are 
hereby  eamesdy  to  request  yon  to  come  and  meet  ns  to- 
morrow at  ^Cloodghe;'  and  so  requesting  you  not  to  fidi 
hereof  in  anywise,  to  Grod^s  keeping  we  commit  you*  O^Neale's 
camp  at  Iniscare,  March  2,  1599."  When  the  Ejng  of  ^pain 
soon  after  sent  over  to  Munster  a  supply  of  men  on  Ins  pay 
and  entertainment,  one  hundred  were  asngned  to  the  command 
of  Donell  O^Donovan ;  and  in  1602,  of  £3,710  which  diat 
monarch  remitted  for  his  adherents  here,  £200  was  appro- 
priated for  '  CTDonovan."  Donell  contrived  to  avert  coofisca* 
tion,  but,  after  the  accession  of  James  the  First  (jn  1608), 
thought  it  prudent  to  surrender  his  estates,  and  had  a  regnuit 
thereof  in  1615,  as  Donell  O'Donovan  of  Castle  Donovan. 
The  patent  enumerates  the  townlandsi  &c.,  of  a  very  extenave 
territory,  *'  with  all  the  customs,  royalties,  dues  and  privities 
heretofore  or  now  granted,  due  and  payable  to  siud  Donell 
and  his  ancestors  in  the  ports,  bays,  or  creeks  of  Castlehaven, 
Squince,  Clonkeogh,  and  the  western  part  of  Glandara,  with 
erection  of  two  manors  out  of  certiun  parcels  of  the  premises, 

^  Decree,  18di  Febnuny,  1592L 


o'donovan's  inpantby*  711 

to  be  respectivelj  styled  Castle  DonoTan  and  Sabine,  and 
liberty  to  impark  500  acres  for  each,  with  courts,  tolls, 
markets,  and  fairs.**  At  the  same  time,  on  a  similar  surrender, 
a  like  grant  passed  to  Donell  oge  ny  Cartain  O'Donovan,  of 
Cloghetiudbally,  County  of  Cork;  and  to  Moriertagh  O'Do- 
novan,  his  son,  of  Ardagh,  in  said  county ;  giving  to  them 
also  sundry  castles,  with  an  inmiense  extent  of  townlands  and 
chiefiies,  and  the  '  customs,  royalties,  and  privileges  due  and 
payable  to  sidd  Donell  and  his  ancestors  in  the  port  of 
Glandore  ;*  a  large  prescribed  territory  being  thereby  erected 
into  the  manor  of  Cloghetradbally,  with  liberty  to  impark 
five  hundred  acres,  to  hold  courts  leet  and  baron,  &c. 

Donell  of  Castle  Donovan  died  about  1638,  leaving  seven 
sons,  Daniel,  Teigue,  Murtogh,  Donogh,  Dermod,  Bichard, 
and  Eeadagh.  An  original  letter,  dated  in  September,  1665, 
from  Lady  Clanricarde  to  James  Duke  of  Ormonde,  Lord 
Lieutenant  of  Ireland,  states  that  two  of  these  sons  were 
Captains,  and  that  one  of  them  with  his  whole  company  was 
cut  down  at  the  battle  of  Bathmines ;  the  other  slain  in  his 
Majesty's  service  beyond  seas**  The  Attainders  of  1643 
include  Hugh  O^Donovan  of  Dellygymore,  Donell  O'Donovan 
the  elder  (then  deceased),  and  his  son  Donell  or  Daniel 
O^Donovan  oge  of  Castle  Donovan,  Murtough  son  of  Donell 
O^Donovan  of  Cloghetradbally  (the  Moriertagh  of  the  above 
patent  of  1615),  Bichard  of  Ballyganeagh,  and  Murrough  of 
Carrew-gariffe,  all  in  the  County  of  Cork. 

On  the  death  of  the  above  Donell  the  elder,  in  1638,  Daniel 
oge^  as  his  eldest  son,  was  duly  inaugurated  Chief  of  Clanca- 
hill.  He  died  in  1660,  and  by  an  order  of  the  Privy  Council 
in  the  following  year,  this  Colonel  Daniel,  who  was  his  only 


**  Sir  Bernard  Burke*i  Landed  Gentry^ 


m 


■on,  was  <xdered  to  be  lotored  to  all  Us  CMdes,  kndfl»  Ac 
Tbe  Bojfal  dwiaratinn  of  tlniikB  in  the  Act  of  SetdeDMSft 
(1662)  imnes  two  Dtauck  of  the  County  of  Coric,  Captain 
Danid  O^Dooofan  of  Kflmirmn,  and  Daaid  ODonovan  of 
Forndae;  yet,  after  that  lecoided  adniowMgmfnt,  Chadea 
the  Seeond  in  1666  confinned  Caade  Dononm,  Shpfiianp,  Ac>, 
(1465aeKa  in  the  Baraqrof  Wert  Caifaerjr)  to  aCranwdfian 
officer.  Tiifniniaiii  Nathazud  Evanaon.  BeddoB  Ccdmd 
Danid,  Thoinao  Donovan  was  an  Knagn  in  Sir  John  Iitn- 
Geiald'a  Infimtiy,  and  Fhilqi  Donovan  in  Colond  John 
Banett^a.  Colond  Danid  was  himadf  the  Portreeve  in  Sjng 
James's  new  Charter  to  Baltimore,  and  one  of  its  Beprasenta- 
tires  in  the  paifiament  of  1689.  The  &nuly  papers  and  rdica 
of  this  period,  which  have  been  libenlljr  si^pGed  in  aid  of 
this  Tolome  bj  the  O'Donovan,  affivd  singnhr  ftriKtaes  fior 
lUostnBtxog  movements  and  proceedings  of  this  war,  and  ficom 
diem  most  of  tiie  ensuing  corioas  nodoes  in  this  memoir  have 
been  addnoed. 

At  the  dose  of  the  year  1688,  6th  Mareh,  ColiMid  Dtedd 
reodved  for  the  use  d  his  Beg^ment  snndiy  gons,  swords, 
pisti^  maskets,  and  one  small  finaee  mnaket.  Three  days 
after,  ^'Danid  McDonough  O'Donovan,  a  Captsin  in  this 
Begiment,  who  fived  near  Castletown  in  the  Barony  of 
Carfoeiy,  having  heard  that  a  Mr.  Bxyan  Townsq^  (Towns- 
end)  had  gathered  there  a  gaiiison  of  *rebek*  (t^.,  to  Sling 
James's  govenmient),  and  was  sending  abmidaace  of  goods, 
arms,  and  anmmnition  for  Baltimore  by  water,  with  a  detach- 
ment to  conToy  them  thither,  he  promptly  took  twenty  of  the 
most  resolute  of  his  men,  and  led  them  by  stratagon  up  to 
the  casde  door,  when  he  demanded  admission,  with  which 
reqmsition  Townsey  complied,  on  seeing  Colond  OT>onoTan^s 
order  therefor.    Tbe  Captain  fomid  there  ^'twenty-nine  fire- 


o'donovak's  ikfantby.  71^ 

armB,  three  pistols,  and  a  hundred  small  bullets,  seven  swords, 
three  bottles  mth  two  boms  full  of  powder,  and  they  threw  a 
firkin  of  powder  (writes  the  Captain)  and  a  great  quantity  of 
leaden  bullets  into  the  sea  at  my  arriYal."  On  the  16th  of 
this  March,  Colonel  Daniel  had  a  further  order  for  413 
muskets  and  650  swords  to  distribute  amongst  his  soldiers  at 
Cork;  while,  on  the  9th  of  Jtdy  following,  after  King  James 
had  landed.  Captain  James  Goolde,  also  of  this  Regiment, 
received  for  its  use  forty-two  muskets,  sixty  belts  and  thirty- 
five  swords;  and  on  the  14th,  fifty-five  muskets,  seventy-five 
swords,  and  seventy-six  belts.  At  the  Parliament  of  Dublin, 
held  in  May,  1689,  Daniel  O'Donovan  was  one  of  the  Repre- 
sentatives for  the  Borough  of  Doneraile,  while  another  Daniel 
and  Jeremiah  O'Donovan  sat  for  that  of  Baltimore.  Jeremiah 
was  then  the  proprietor  of  Cloghetradbally,  which  it  is  said 
he  sold  m  1726.  On  the  25th  of  July,  1689,  Colonel  Daniel 
O'Donovan  received  a  Royal  order,  signed  'Melfort^  (then 
King  James's  Secretary  of  State),  directing  him  to  keep  all 
the  supernumerary  companies  of  his  Regiment  over  and  above 
thirteen,  till  further  orders  for  the  disposing  thereof;  and'to 
send  an  account  of  their  number,  with  a  ,view  to  providing  for 
their  subsistence*  On  the  1st  of  August  following,  James 
Gallwey,  the  agent  for  clothing  the  Colonel's  Regiment,  states 
his  charges  as  follows  s— ^  8.    d. 

For  tnze  coating,  lining,  and  ^  dying'  for  each  man   -        10    0 
For  making  the  coat  and  ^britches*  «        «.        .  12 

Hat  and  hat-band  ^..^t..  20 

Pair  of  shoes  and  buckle         «.        <.        ^        •        •  39 

Shirt  and  making  «.*..'-..  26 

Cravat         -------.  10 

*Swaah' 10 

Pair  of  Stockens' 07 

'Wascoate* 20 

£14    0 


714  KING  JA]CB8*8  UUflB  ASMT  LIST. 

Some  time  after  the  last  date,  this  Colonel  presented  his 
petition  to  the  King  then  in  Dublin,  setting  forth  that  his 
(petitioner's)  father  had  "raised  for  his  late  Majesty  of  blessed 
memory  two  companies  of  Foot,  and  that  both  petitioner's 
uncles  commanding  them  were  dain,  as  by  letter  of  his  late 
Majesty  annexed  may  appear:  That  petitioner  was  to  be 
restored  to  an  ancient  estate  of  £2,000  per  ana.  by  the  said 
letter ;  but  by  the  partiality  of  the  late  goTemment  of  Ireland, 
(and,  as  appears  above,  with  the  confirmatory  sanction  of  him 
of  ^blessed  memory')  the  petitioner  was  deprired  of  the  benefit 
thereof,  and  his  estate  set  out  by  tiie  late  Acts  of  Settlement: 
That  petitioner  suffered  long  imprisonment  by  the  oppression 
of  the  late  Eail  of  Orreiy  and  others,  and  was  tried  for  his 
life  before  the  Lord  Chief  Justice  Eeatinge  and  Sir  Bichard 
Beynells,  on  account  of  the  late  pretended  plot,  as  tiie  said  Lord 
Chief  Justice  and  your  Majesty's  Attorney-General  can  testify ; 
whereby  most  of  his  small  acquired  fortune  was  exhausted: 
That  petitioner,  by  commission,  raised  about  Christmas  last  a 
Regiment  of  Foot,  and  ever  since  kept  them,  without  any 
subsistence  or  relief  (from  Government),  and  notwithstanding 
your  Majesty's  orders  and  patent  at  Cork  for  quartarst  arms, 
and  subsbtence,  your  petitioner  could  not  at  all  to  this  day 
procure  any,  whereby  he  was  exposed  to  the  censure  of  tiiose 
he  engaged  in  his  regiment,  and  they  discouraged,  being 
informed  the  Regiment  was  disbanded,  which  could  not  be 
otherwise  imagined,  by  the  usage  your  petitioner  had  from 
time  to  time  .  .  .  That  the  people  of  the  country,  about  your 
petitioner's  habitation  and  estate,  are  exposed  to  the  sea,  and 
pirates  frequentiy  amongst  them,  so  that  it  may  be  requisite, 
if  it  so  please  your  Sacred  Majesty,  to  have  still  men  in  arms 
thereabouts  for  your  Majesty's  service.  May  it  therefore 
please  your  Majesty  to  order  what  stands  most  consistent 
with  Your  Majesty's  pleasure  in  the  premises,  and  your 


O  DONOVAN  8   INPANTRT.  715 

petitioner/'  Ac.,  &c.  Sir  Richard  Nagle  being  Secretary  at 
this  time,  directed  a  letter  of  11th  October,  1689,  from 
Dublin  Castle  to  Colonel  O'Donoyan,  in  which  he  wrote, 
'*  Sity  I  have  jowts  of  the  10th  instant.  The  King  is  verj 
well  pleased  with  you,  for  the  care  yon  have  taken  of  pre- 
ferring the  refSurmed  officers,  [the  'reformados'  alluded  to 
ante,  p.  708].  I  am  glad  to  hear  the  good  account  Sir 
Edward  Scott  gives  of  your  Begiment,  and  I  hope  now  that 
they  are  under  your  immediate  care,  they  will  retrieve  their 
credit,  lost  at  Dungannon.  The  Lords  of  the  Treasury  have 
the  care  of  providing  the  necessaries  for  the  fort  and  sentinels ; 
a  Commissary  is  ordered  at  Cork  to  pay  the  subsistence  duly 
there.  It  is  not  his  Majesty's  intention  to  displace  any  Cap* 
tains  or  subalterns,  that  have  raised  their  men  and  recruits ; 
but,  when  vacancies  do  happen,  he  would  have  the  reformed 
officers  preferred,  &c.  R*  Nagle."  A  memorandum  of  28th 
October  in  the  same  year  acknowledged  the  recdpt  of  £500 
for  Colonel  O'Donovan's  Begiment,  and  states  allowances: — 

£    B.    d. 
**To  Captain  Regan^s  soldiers,  sergeant  and  six  men^ 

that  goarded  the  money  fh>m  Dublin  *  -  1  10  6 
To  Lieutenant  Falvey  and  Ensign  Gregson,  that 

came  for  the  money         •        '        •        •*        •  7  16    0 

For  the  barrel  to  put  the  money  in       •        •        -  0    16 

For  a  bag  and  to  a  porter  •        •        •        •        •  05    6,  &c. 

Another  receipt,  without  date,  specifies  as  applied,  to  the 
use  of  the  soldiers  of  this  Begiment,  842  coats,  638  breeches, 
446  widstcoats,  886  hats,  218  hatbands,  514  'carawiths,'  and 
600  bandaliers  [cases  for  charges  of  powder].  About  this 
time  the  Earl  of  Dover,  being  still  in  King  James*s  service, 
wrote  to  Colonel  O'Donovan,  then  in  Kinsale,  his  Majesty's 
order,  ''that  the  men  belonging  to  the  three  companies  that 


716  Knro  jahes^s  dush  abmt  ubt. 

are  redncedi  should  be  diBtnbated  in  your  B^iment,  to  fulfil 
such  oompaiiiefl  aa  are  not  complete;  and  finding  LientenaiLt- 
Colonel  Napier'a  company  very  weak,  you  are  demed  to  let 
him  have  auch  men  out  of  the  three  companies  that  may  ccmi- 
pleto  his  company,  and  the  rest  you  will  divide  aooording  to 
the  King's  order."  Soon  after,  Colonel  Churchill  compelled 
the  surrender  of  Eansale,  on  honourable  terms,  the  keys  having 
been  surrendered  to  him  by  this  ColoneL  In  the  attack  about 
thb  time  on  Castletown,  near  Casdehayen,  'Hhe  garrison  was 
commanded  by  O'Donovan,  O'DriscoU,  and  one  Barry.  Cap- 
tain MacBonayn  made  gallant  opposition  to  the  bedegers, 
but  was  killed  there,  as  were  also  Colonel  O'DriscoU  and 
Captain  Teigue  O'Donoran.* 

At  the  close  of  the  year  1690,  29th  Februaiy,  Colonel 
George  Hamilton  wrote  from  Bandon  to  Colonel  O'Donovan 
at  his  camp,  **  Sir,  there  being  one  John  Jackson,  sergeant  of 
Captain  Ker's  company,  lately  taken  by  some  rapparees,  if 
you  will  send  him  to  Dunmanway  or  any  other  adjacent 
garrison.  111  send  you  Sergeant  Deady  in  his  place,  or  two 
soldiers  both  of  your  name,  who  were  sent  to  Cork  when  the 
Assizes  *  wor'  sitting,  so  not  in  my  custody.  John  Boch  is 
at  Dunmanway;  though  a  very  notorious  robber,  yet  if  you 
own  him  as  a  *  shouldief ,'  he  is  at  your  service.  What  men 
are  in  your  custody,  if  you  will  accept  a  month's  pay,  which, 
*  conform'  to  military  discipline,  is  the  full  ransom  of  any 
private  centinel,  I  will  upon  my  honour  do  the  same  with 
you,  whenever  we  take  any  of  yours.  I  '  desaired'  Captain 
Bruce  to  acquaint  you  of  a  servant,  one  John  *  Mack  Claud,' 
who  *  brok'  open  my  coffer,  and  '  mead'  amongst  the  rapparees. 
If  you  have  any  *  sitch'  man,  I  don't  doubt  of  your  compliance 


*  Story*8  Impartial  History^  part  L,  p.  151. 


o'dokovan's  infantbt.  717 

in  sending  liim  to  some  of  onr  firontiers,  which  will  singularly 
•  oblidge,' <fic.    G.  H." 

In  the  following  year  (1691),  sundry  letters  were  addressed 
to  the  Hon.  Colonel  O'Donovan  by  Captain  John  Gordon, 
from  Enniskeen  and  Bandon,  by  Fatt  Murray  at  the  former 
place,  by  John  Melvill  at  Boss,  and  Alexander  Hamilton 
from  Castlehaven,  chiefly  relating  to  exchanges  of  prisoners. 
*'  I  am,  for  my  own  part,*^  says  the  latter,  in  a  letter  of  6th 
May,  ^^senable  of  your  kindness  for  using  my  soldiers  so 
kindly,  and  if  ever  it  be  my  good  fortune  to  have  any  of  your 
soldiers  prisoners,  you  may  assure  yourself  they  shall  have  no 
worse  usage.  I  should  be  glad  the  lime  would  allow  us  to 
drink  one  bottle. — ^No  more  at  present,  but  I  rest  your  most 

humble  servant Alexander  Hamilfon.      My  service  to 

your  Lady  and  all  your  fkmiiy."  In  a  week  after,  the 
Colonel  received  another  communication  from  the  last  corres- 
pondent; ^*  Sir,  I  received  yours  in  the  field,  in  pursuit  of  the 
military  who  *  has'  robbed  my  '  contributers,'  but  I  have  pre- 
vented them  from  canying  off  thelir  prey.  If  you  please,  I 
would  meet  you  at  your  daughter's,  or  privately  or  publicly 
at  Skibbereen,  for  it  can  do  no  hurt  to  me:  I  have  an  order 
under  the  General's  and  Judge  Crock's  hand,  for  to  speak 
with  you  if  you'll  allow  me  that  honour;  if  you  know  of  any 
other  more  convenient  let  me  know  with  the  bearer,  with  all 
haste.  I  will  drink  a  bottle  with  you  very  heartily,  which  I 
shall  bring  with  me. — No  tnore  at  present — ^my  service  to 
your  Lady — daughter — and  all  other  friends,  and  we  drink 
your  healdi  at  present  with  a  cup  of  ^  punsh.'  A.  Hamilton.** 
Two  days  after  the  last  date,  ^a  party  of  the  militia  of 
Bandon  took  Captain  Hugh  Donovan  and  ox  of  O^Donovan's 
Begiment  prisoners."*    And  Colonel  O'Donovan  himself  and 

•  *  Siory*$  In^ffortial  Hktory^  p«rt  n.|  p.  76. 


718  KIVG  JAMSS^S  IBUH  ABXT  LIST. 

Mae  Ctttie  Moie  were  at  the  auie  time  neaxfy  wuinjied  bj 
the  Williaiiiite  foroes.* 

In  the  middle  of  Maj,  1691,  the  Colonel  Geoige  H«ni]tan, 
before  allnded  to  m  afatiooed  at  Bandon,  and  who  aeema  to 
haTe  had  a  atarong  penooal  fiienddiip  for  this  Cohmel,  lenewed 
hiaweD-intentioiiedoTeitiirea:  **  %« I  have  reoeiTed  your  kat 
by  Captain  Hamilton;  700II  find  I  have  dime  yon  all  Idnd- 
neta  I  oonld  to  pennade  yon  to  be  of  oar  ode;  I  hope  yon 
haye  oooadered  the  bnainefla,  and  bdieye  me  it  will  not  be  in 
my  power  to  proonre  anoh  oonditiona  fiir  the  fntore,  or  yet 
for  yon  to  expect  laiger  terma  than  now  oifered.  G.  H.** 
Hamilton,  in  two  days  after,  more  explicitly  offSsred  the 
Colonel,  aa  by  authority,  **  freedom  fiom  all  proeecotiona  fw 
any  injoiy  or  trespam  done  l>y  him  or  by  hia  o(»nmand  onoe 
the  lat  of  Angoat,  1688,  to  the  date**  (of  the  letter),  if  he 
would  oome  over;  while  three  dayi  after  that,  the  before- 
named  Alexander  Hamilton  also  wrote  to  thb  Colonel  again 
from  Caatlehayen: — ^*  On  Saturday,  between  ei^t  and  nme, 
if  it  pleaae  God,  I  •hall  meet  you  at  Clongh  Caatle,  with  my 
daughter  Nell  and  one  officer  or  two,  and  fix>m  thence  shall 
do  myself  the  honour  to  wait  upon  you  and  your  lady  at  your 
quarterB.**  On  that  very  day.  Colonel  O'Donovan  received  a 
marching  order  from  Biigadier  Fnuuas  CarroU  (whoy  with  hia 
Begiment  of  Dngoona,  is  before  alluded  to),  in  which  the 
Brigadier  is  styled  '  Governor  and  Commandant-in-Chief  of 
his  Miyesty  V  Army  in  the  Counties  of  Kerry  and  Cork."  He 
says  herdn,  *'  By  virtue  of  an  order  directed  to  me  by  his 
Grace  the  Duke  of  Tyiconnel,  you  are  to  march  with  your 
Begiment  from  the  town  of  Eallamey  to  the  camp  of  Athare 
(Adare),  by  secure  and  convenient  ways,  so  as  to  be  there  in 
three  days  after  you  march  from  hence.    You  are  to  send 

*SU9y»  Impartial  ffirtory,  psrt  EL,  p.  177. 


*s*^Wiav^aaaMBVMHPvmi^p>r^nn^PHai^*ivi^^r*<vnr"^- 


O'dONOVAN'S  INFANTBY.  719 

your  Major  or  Bome  other  officer  to  receive  further  iustruction, 
either  at  Limerick  or  Athare,  withal  to  take  care  that  there 
be  no  disorder  committed,  nor  pressing  of  horses  or  plow- 
garrons,  being  the  Governor's  '  straight'  command.  Given  at 
Boss."  On  the  16th  of  August,  '*  A  Dutch  vessel,  laden 
with  wine  and  salt,  was  surprised  by  O'Donovan's  men ;  but 
Colonel  Beecher,  with  four  boats  manned  with  a  party  of  our 
men,  came  about  from  the  island  of  Shortin,  retook  the  ship, 
forced  twelve  of  the  Irish  into  the  sea  who  were  drowned, 
and  took  twenty-four  more  of  them  that  had  got  into  the 
boats/'* 

Immediately  on  the  capitulation  of  Limerick,  this  Colonel 
received  a  pressing  letter  from  J.  Both,  informing  him  that 
the  writer  had  received  *^  an  order  firom  Lord  Lucan  to  march 
forthwith  to  Carrigfoyle,  to  be  embarked  in  the  French  fleet, 
and  to  give  the  Begiments  in  these  quarters  orders  to  march 
that  way;"  and  he  recommends  Colonel  O'Donovan  to  lose  no 
time  in  marching  his  forces,  *'  for  die  enemy's  commander  in 
this  country  is  very  precise/'  In  a  few  days  aflber  (12th 
October),  Major*General  John  Wauchop  wrote  further  to 
him,  "  on  sight  thereof  to  march  with  his  Begiment  to  the 
harbour  of  Cork  for  embarkation/'  The  Colonel,  was,  how- 
ever,  attainted  in  1691,  by  two  Inquisitions  taken  in  Dublin, 
and  two  in  Cork;  while,  in  1696,  two  other  Inquisitions  were 
held  on  him  in  the  latter  county.  There  were  also  then 
attainted  Daniel,  son  of  Bichard  O'Donovan,  William,  Hugo, 
and  Munough,  son  of  Teigue  O'Donovan,  Cornelius  Donovan, 
Bichard  Donovan,  Bichard  Donovan,  junior,  and  Donatua 
Donovan.  Colonel  Daniel  was,  however,  decreed  entitled  to 
the  benefit  of  the  Articles  of  Limerick,  and  had  further  a 

*  Story* 8  Impartial  ISaiory^  part  n.^  p.  196. 


720  Knra  jaioes's  ibibh  asmy  ubt. 

wpedtl  pan,  dated  4di  Swaamrj^  1692,  to  penoit  bim  ^to 
tnrel  to  Hmdeagiie,  and  tlienoe  to  Cork,  to  ddirer  Iiim- 
adf  a  priaoner  to  the  Higli  Sheriff  witiioiit  molertagon,  he 
hAamng  faunadf  aa  beoometh;  unleas  yoa  ha^e  any  ovder 

eontiaiy  from  the  aaid  9ieriff     Signed,  B.  Townaend. 

Yoa  are  also  to  permH  Captain  ConoO  J  and  Captm  Donovan 
to  pasa  aa  above.  B.  T."  The  ComelntB  Donovan,  above 
named  on  the  Attainders,  obtained  in  1700  a  warnmt  for  free 
pardon  on  aecoont  of  his  early  snbmittang,  his  servioea  to 
suffering  Protestants,  and  his  own  losses  cm  soch  occawma.* 

At  the  Coort  of  Chums  in  this  year,  Morgan,  the  eUeat 
son  of  this  COTndins,  daimed  and  was  allowed  an  estate  tail 
in  his  Coric  oonfiscati<»is.  A  certificate  of  22nd  April,  1708, 
testifies  ^*  that  Colonel  ODonovan,  on  the  n<Hse  of  an  invasion 
in  Scotland,  volnntarily  brought  in  and  delivered  to  ^e 
authorised  offidal  a  horse,  bridle  and  saddle  fcnr  her  Migesty*s 
service;  and  after,  on  the  report  that  the  French,  that  were 
designed  to  invade  Scotland,  were  returned  to  Brest,  gave 
security  that  the  said  horse  should  be  redelivered  to  Ihat 
officer  at  any  time,  when  required  for  Her  Majesty's  service.** 
He  appears  to  have  died  soon  after  (at  least  before  the 
accession  of  Gkorge  the  First),  wh^i  (in  1715)  his  son  and 
hrir,  *^  Bichard  O'Donovan,  alias  ODonovan  of  Banclahan, 
took  the  oaths  of  alguntion  and  allegiance,  and  entered  into 
recognizances  with  security  to  behave  himself  peaceably,  AoT 
Such  was  the  ungenerous  distrust  to  which  the  old  Irish  were 
then  subjected.  The  Colonel  was  twice  married ;  by  his  first 
wife,  Viotoria,  daughter  of  Captain  Coppinger,  he  had  only 
one  child,  Helena;  by  his  second  he  had  sons,  whose  male 
succession  became  extinct  with  General  Bichard  O'Donovan 

•  EaxriM^s  MSS.,  Dob.  Soc.,  v,  10,  folio  503. 


o'donovan's  infantbt.  721 

of  the  6th  Dragoons ;  who,  after  having  served  with  honour 
in  the  campaigns  in  Flanders  and  Spain,  died  in  1829  without 
issue.  Helena,  the  only  child  of  the  Colonel's  first  wife, 
married  the  aforesaid  Cornelius,  who  was  her  cousin.  Their 
issue  was  (with  a  younger  son  Teigue,  who  married  in 
Jamaica,  but  died  s.  p,^  when  his  widow  married  Admiral, 
afterwards  Sir  William  Burnaby,  from  whom  has  descended 
the  present  Sir  William  Crisp  Hood  Burnaby,  of  Broughton 
Hall),  an  elder  brother  Morgan,  the  lineal  ancestor  of  the 
present  O'Donovan.  The  vesting  of  the  Chieftaincy  in  his 
direct  ancestors  was  however  suspended,  as  before  suggested, 
by  the  existence  of  issue  iQale  of  Colonel  Daniel  by  his  second 
wife,  until  1829,  when  this  ancient  Irish  title  vested  in 
Morgan  William  O'Donovan,  now  of  Montpelier,  Cork. 
He  is  the  heir  male  of  Teigue  Donovan,  the  next  brother  of 
this  Colonel  Daniel  O'Donovan's  father;  both  beipg  the  sons 
of  Daniel  or  Donell  O'Donovan  the  elder,  who  was  the  Chief- 
tidn  during  much  of  the  reigns  of  Elizabeth  a|id  James  the 
First, 

A  very  full  memoir  of  this  ancient  Sept  and  its  several 
branches,  is  given  in  the  Appendix  to  the  Aiu^l^  of  the  Four 
Masters,  by  one  of  themselves,  the  ablest  and  most  trustworthy 
translator  and  expounder  of  a  work  that,  by  his  care  and 
research,  has  given  a  value  to  Irish  History  down  to  the  . 
middle  of  the  seventeenth  century,  &r  beyond  the  contempo- 
raneous chronicles  of  any  other  nation  of  Northern  Europe, 
Need  the  name  of  John  O'Donovan,  LL.P.,  be  added  after  » 
testimonial  to  the  man  so  obvious. 


VOL.   II.  8  A 


LIEUTEXAirr4X>U>NEL  CORSEUrS 

ODSISCOLI. 


■  ifeC 


BkyrflTihkiwi.Ml  ■iiwfcfcfSMifcf 


of 

Uif :  Hkt  imlAa*  C«lfe  at  Pwiiiiii  i   ■  Cape  Clor 
likad.     Li  1310.  a  povd  vkoi.  m  Sr 
Attanejr-Gcaoal  to  Qaeea   VK—a-*L.  aai  Flag  Ji 


tiU  took  pbee  at  liaKciek  bdbre  JoIb  Wqpn. 
Lonl  Jortiee  of  Iidail:  wlocia  a  Willba  Fits-Boger. 


bemg  infietad  fiv  Ae  Baider  of  Boger  de  GaatekB.  pleaded 
tiMt  hacoald  aot  ^  law  be  goilt^  at  nuinkr  ia  tiMt  iBBtBMe, 
tetlMt  aid  Roger  (tfe  Tiedm)  «M  ai  IikhMtt  aiaot  of 
fiw  blood;  that  m  ycri^  MJd  BflgBT  w— of  the  iMgitn  of 
O'HodotMoD^HdBotortlieiinieorCnldoB;  nidKJaij 
fomd  Aefrete  to  be  fli^  vboeiqiQo  dK  insooer  was  aoqaitted. 
Smitfa,  in  Ui  ^Tulory  o/  W^Oerfard,  voL  1,  fi.  127,  deteib 
acte  of  bhter  bortilily  br  the  O^edeneoD  ni  the  Poen 
sgpyiMt  Oe  citkeoe  ofthsft  M^wKt.  Tlie  Four  MMtcn  raxxd 
tfafoug^ioot,  in  fineqneot  Amnb^Ae  wwrjfjwnn  of  the  chiefr 
of  tUb   Sept;  and  idate  m  memnraMe  pflgnmage  of  the 


BimntmL  Rthniotn,  p.  ^ 


^^  -  " 


o'donovaw'8  infantry.  723 

ODrisooU  more  Fynnin  (anglicked  Florence)  and  Teigue  his 
son,  in  1472,  according  to  the  piety  of  the  day,  to  the  shrine 
of  St.  James  of  Compostella  in  Spain.  The  father  died  on 
his  return,  as  did  his  son  within  a  month  after. 

In  Perrot's  Parliament  of  1585,  the  Sept  was  represented 
by  the  above  Fynnin,  described  in  lineage  as  son  of  Connor, 
son  of  Fynnin,  son  of  Connor.  He  took  an  active  part  in  the 
war  of  Munster,  adhering  to  O'Neill  and  the  Spanish  invaders 
in  1599,  as  fiiUy  set  forth  in  the  Pacata  Hibemia.  When 
Don  Juan  de  Aguila  brought  over  money  from  his  King  for 
the  native  chiefs  that  joined  him,  £500  thereof  was  appro- 
priated to  Sir  Fynnin  O'Driscoll  and  Connor  his  son.  The 
fatality  of  national  division  on  grounds  of  private  feuds,  is 
powerfiilly  evinced  by  a  Report  of  the  Lord  President  of 
Munster  to  the  Council  of  England  afler  the  battle  of  Kin- 
sale  : — '^  As  for  Sir  Fynnin  O'DriscoU,  O'Donovan,  and  the 
two  sons  of  Sir  Owen  Mac  Cartie,  they  and  their  followers 
are  so  well  divided  in  factions  amongst  themselves,  as  they  are 
fisdling  to  preying  and  killing  one  anotiier,  which  we  conceive 
will  much  avail  to  the  quieting  of  these  parte."  ^  It  may  be 
here  mentioned  that  tins  Sir  Fynnin  was  the  son  of  Donogh 
O'Driscoll  by  Mary,  only  daughter  and  heiress  of  Gerald, 
Lord  Courcey,  who,  by  his  will  of  June,  1599,  disinherited 
her,  and  gave  all  his  estates  to  his  next  cousin  and  heir  male, 
John,  son  of  Edmund  Courcey,  in  tail ;  and,  in  de&ult  of  such 
his  issue,  to  revert  to  Queen  Elizabeth  and  her  successors  for 
ever.  This  lady  survived  her  husbaiid,  and,  afta:  his  death 
married,  in  1611,  John  Galwey  of  Kinsale,  between  whom 
and  John  Lord  Courcey  much  litigation,  as  might  be  expected, 
ensued. 
^^^^-^^~~~— — — —  '  ■        .1  - 

*  Pacata  HHwrna^  voL  Sf'p.  506, 


724  Knro  ^amxb^b  nam  asmt  ust. 

Inwnadktrfy  after  Hk  btttde  of  KioMfe,  tin  Fymim** 
eldest  ton,  Camior,  and  Coonar  <]^  lik  bob  and  heir,  tlica 
aged  nine  yean,  fled  io  a  maD  baik  to  %wil  IXxmell, 
another  aoa  of  Sir  Fynnin,  paaard  ako  to  Spun  with  Doo 
Joan  de  Agnila,  aa  did  likewise  Demiot  Mac  Connq^her 
O*Dri0eoil,  with  his  bother  and  aona,  and  three  acma  of  '  Iffie 
0*DriMolL*  Connor  oge  afkerwarda  served  in  the  Spaniali 
BftTy,  and  was  slain  in  an  engngement  witb  the  Trnka  in 
1618*  Old  Sir  Fynnin,  yidding  to  the  iMessure  of  circon^ 
stances,  and  on  the  eztinetion  of  most  of  his  &niily,  soReo- 
dered  in  1608  to  the  Bjng  all  the  temtofy  of  CollynuHe, 
ealled  0*Driseoli's  country,  and  the  acnl,  shore,  and  strand  of 
the  haren  of  Baltimore,  with  the  Islands  of  Inisholdn  and 
three  others.  The  wide  extent  of  thb  distiJct  within  the 
Connly  of  Coric  is  defined  in  the  grant  theieof  to  ThcHnae 
Cfoeke  ci  Baltimore,  Esq.,  which  immediately  followed.  In 
1611,  however,  it  appears  on  record,  that  said  Crodce  had 
license  to  alienate  aU  CoIlym<n:e  to  said  Fynnin  O'Dnaodl, 
Walter  Coppinger,  and  D<mogh  0*DrisoolL  In  1615  the 
0*Driseolls*  territory  was  defined  as  containing  the  following 
parishes  in  the  Baiony  of  Carboiy ,  viz. :  Myross,  Gknbanr 
ban  (Castlehaven),  TuUa^,  Creagh,  Kikoe,  Aghadown,  and 
Clare  Island* — ^The  Attainders  of  1643  present  the  names 
of  Teigoe  and  Florence  O'DrisooU  of  Ballymao-Irrene, 
Dermot  O'Driscoll  of  Cmldroot,  Fynnin  Mac  lasts  of 
BaUinetemgh,  ComeUns  O'Driscol  of  DonegaU,  and  Donogh 
O'Diiscoll  of  the  same  place,  all  in  the  County  of  Cork.  The 
last-named  was  then  ehief  of  the  sept,  and  died  in  four  years 
after  his  attainder.  His  son  Connor  married  Catherine  Mao 
Cartie,  and  died  before  his  fitther,  leaving  another  Donogh 

*  aDawvan'M  Book  qf  Bigkt,  ^  i7. 


o'donoyam^'s  infantry.  725 

then  a  minor  his  heir,  who  in  1654  was  expnlsed  from  his 
inheritance  by  the  Cromwellians*  His  son  was  the  above 
Lieutenant-Colonel,  who,  in  1662,  being  then  a  Lieutenant, 
received  the  Boyal  thanks  through  the  Act  of  Settlement, 
*•  for  services  beyond  the  sea;'  as  did  also  Florence  O'DriscoU 
of  Ballyhan. 

A  Captain  Driscoll  iis  stated  to  have  had  an'  independent 
company  after  the  battle  of  the  Boyne.  On  the  2nd  of 
October  after  that  engagement,  'the  Loid  Marlborough  came 
to  Kinsale  with  the  army ;  on  the  drdj  Major«General  Felton 
and  Colonel  Fit2>Patrick  stormed  the  old  fort  called  Castle- 
ni-Park,  whereupon  the  enemy  retired  into  the  castle ;  at  the 
same  time  three  barrels  of  powder  took  fire  at  the  gate,  and 
blew  up  with  about  forty  soldiers ;  at  length  the  Governor, 
Colonel  O'DriscoU,  and  200  of  his  garrison  being  killed,  the 
rest  surrend^:ed  upon  quarteri"  [Li  the  November  following, 
according  to  a  Williamite  account,  a  Colonel  O'Driscoll,  with 
Captains  O'Donovan  and  Cronin,  were  slain  in  an  attack  on 
the  garrison  of  Castletown,  in  the  Coimty  of  Cork.] 

On.  the  authority  of  the  Appendix  to  King's  State  of  the 
Protestantey  it  would  appear  that  a  Francis  Napper  was  Lieu* 
tenant-Colonel  of  this  Begiment  in  1690.  The  O'DriscoUs 
attainted  in  1691  were  the  above  Colonel  ComeUue  O^DriscoU, 
Cornelius  ODriscoU,  jun.,  and  eight  others  in  the  County  of 
Cork,  viz. :  Thadeus,  Alexander,  Dermod,  Coursie  and 
Daniel  his  son,  Michael,  son  of  Brown  Driscoll,  with  Dennis 
and  Florence  O'DriscoU  of  Bally-island.  One  of  these  was  a 
Captain  in  Colonel  Owen  Mac  Cartie's  In&ntry.  Cornelius, 
junior,  appears  identical  with  an  officer  in  Spain,  styled 
Le  Sieur  Comeille  O'DriscoU,  distinguished  during  the  great 
War  of  the  Succession  in  1707  and  1708,  when  he  was 
Lieutenant-Colonel  to  the  Regiment  of  Dragoons  of  the 


726  KING  James's  irish  army  list.' 

famous  Count  Daniel  O'Mahony,  before  alluded  to  {ante^ 
p.  502^3).  At  the  Court  of  Chdms  in  1700,  the  Archbishop 
of  Dublin  claimed  and  was  allowed  an  estate  in  fee  in  some  of 
the  Cork  confiscations  of  the  above  Lieutenant-Colonel;  while 
the  castle,  town,  and  lands  of  Bally-Mac-Bowan,  other  parts 
thereof,  were  in  1703  sold  to  the  Hollow  Swords'  Blades 
Company.  From  the  above  Lieutenant-Colonel  Cornelius 
has  lineally  descended  the  present  William-Henry  O'DriscoUt 
his  great-great-grandson  and  heir  male,  now  the  head  of  this 
ancient  sept. 

Shortly  afler  the  termination  of  this  war,  Colonel  Cornelius 
O'DriscoU  addressed  a  petition,  on  behalf  of  the  inhabitants 
of  Carbury,  td  the  Lord  Viscount  Clare,  Grovemor  of  the 
County  and  of  the  City  of  Cork;  wherein  he  shewed  *that 
King  William  had  been  graciously  pleased,  for  the  preserva- 
tion of  his  subjects  and  kingdom,  to  order  several  places  of 
strength  in  Cork  to  be  demolished^  through  fear  of  the 
rebellious  intentions  of  disaffected  persons ;  most  of  which 
had  been  accordingly  rased^  but  that  the  fortress  of  Aghadown 
was  left  near  the  Sea^  in  the  same  state  it  hath  hitherto,  been, 
being  a  place  for  securing  above  1,500  men;  which  puts  a 
great  terror  on  his  majesty's  subjects  thereabout,'  and  that  it 
should  be  demolished  was  the  prayer  of  this  petition. 


MAJOR  SIR  ALPHONSO  MOTTIT. 

[Sib  Alphonso  appears  to  have  been  one  of  the  French  officers, 
who  came  over  early  in  1689  for  King  James's  service,  at 
which  time  he  had  ranked  a  Captain,  and  soon  after  was  made 
a  Major  in  this  Regiment.] 


o'donovan's  iKFAirrBT  727 


CAPTAIN  DANIEL  BEGAN. 

The  O'BeganB  were  a  native  aept  of  Meath,  of  whom  was 
Maurioe  Began,  reputed  secretary  of  Dermot  Mc  Murrough, 
firom  wkom  the  anonymous  author  of  a  well-known  Anglo- 
Norman  poem,  on  the  Invasion  of  Ireland,  derived  much 
information  for  his  narrative;  a  very  incorrect  ver^on  of 
which  has  been   published    in   the  first    part   of  Harris's 

Hibemica. The  above  officer  appears  to  have  been  the 

'Major'  Began  who  was  afterwards  killed  at  the  siege  of 
Derty;  The  most  remarkable  of  the  name  in  this  war  was, 
however^  Sir  Teigue  O'Began,  a  truly  gdknt  and,  to  his 
king,  loyal  officer.  In  May,  1690,  he  was  Governor  of 
Charlemont,  ''when,'*  says  Story,  "cannon  and  mortar  were 
sent  up  to  force  old  Teigue  from  his  nest,  if  he  would  not 
quit  it  otherwise.'*  On  the  12th  of  that  month,  this  veteran, 
"his  provisions  having  been  spent,  and  no  hopes  of  relief 
appearing,  desired  a  psurley,**  and  ultimately  surrendered  on 
terms  of  the  garris6n  being  allowed  to  march  out  with  their 
arms  and  baggage.*  Next  year  this  veteran^  after  the  battie 
of  Aughrim,  Was  deputed,  with  such  aid  as  he  might  obtun 
from  Brigadier  Baldeaig  O'Donnell,  to  defend  Sligo;  'but 
though,  by  his  desertion,  deprived  of  every  chance  of  relief,' 
says  O'Callaghan,  'old  Sir  Teigue  did  not  give  up  his  post, 
until,  with  only  600  harassed  men  and  twelve  days*  provisions, 
and  the  town  of  Sligo  and  the  outworks  of  his  fort  in  the 
enemy's  hands,  he  found  himself  exposed  to  the  assault  of 

*  Clarke's  Janm  ILy  v.  3,  p.  386. 


72S  KIKO  JAME8*8  IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

5,000  fresh  men,  sent  agunst  him  firom  Dublin  nnder  Loni 
GnmArd ;  the  fort  was  then  (Sept.  14th)  given  op  en  good 
terms,  namely,  that  the  garrison  with  arms  and  baggage 
should  be  allowed  to  join  the  rest  of  the  Irish  anny  in 
Limerick,  that  it  should  receive,  out  of  the  stores  in  the  Fort, 
for  support  during  the  march  there,  twelve  days'  beef  and 
bread,  and  that  all  the  little  Irish  garrisons  in  the  ooontry 
about  Sligo  should  have  the  benefit  of  the  capitulation.' 


CAPTAIN  JOSEPH  FOX. 


This  fiunily  name  has  been  in  some  instances  anglicised  fiom 
an  Irish  Sept,  O*  '  Sionagh,'  who  were  seised  in  TeflBa, 
County  of  Westmeath,  of  a  territory  extending  ovsr  parts 
of  the  baronies  of  Bathconrath  and  Clonlonan,  with  parcel 
of  the  barony  of  Kilcoursey,  in  the  Eong's  County.  The 
head  of  the  Sept  in  the  time  of  Elizabeth  was  known  by  the 
title  of  the  Fox;  and  he  it  was  who  obtained  large  grants 
from  her  Majesty  in  the  latter  county^  mtix  the  title  of  Lord 
Kilcoursey.  In  1607,  1610,  and  1611,  Pat.  Fox  of  Dublin, 
had  grants  of  sundry  lands  in  the  Counties  of  Longford, 
Westmeath,  Dublin,  and  City  of  Dublin.  In  1608  he  had  a 
grant  of  the  wardship  of  Richard,  son  and  heir  of  William 
Delamare^  late  of  Fulmont  in  Westmeath ;  and  his  obituary, 
in  1618,  styling  him  Patrick  Fox,  knight,  says  he  died  seised 
of  sundry  premises  in  that  county,  and  that  Nathaniel  Fox, 
his  son  and  heir,  was  at  the  time  of  Ids  father's  decease  aged 
thirty  years  and  married.  This  Nathaniel  died  in  1634, 
seised  of  the  Castle  of  Sariagh  and  other  lands  in  Longford 
and  Westmeath,  leaving  Patrick  Fox  his  son  and  heir,  then 


LOBD  itbaoh's  infaktbt.  729 

aged  twenty  and  married.  Nathaniel  had  seven  other  sons, 
Matt.,  James,  John,  Francis,  Martin,  Simon,  and  Michael, 
with  three  daughters.  The  only  individual  of  the  name 
recorded  as  attainted  in  1642  was  Arthur  Fox  of  Cromlin, 
County  of  Dublin,  who  was  afterwards,  by  Cromwell*s  Act 
of  1652,  excepted  from  pardon  for  life  and  estate. 

In  1666  this  Captain  Joseph  had  a  confirmatory  grant  of 
3,676  acres  in  Waterford,  and  3,045  in  Tipperary.  Four 
other  officers  of  the  name  appear  on  this  Army  List,  while 
that  of  the  Attainders  of  1691  presents  eight 


*  t  ft 


REGIMEKl'S  Ot  INFANTRY. 

BBTANi  LOBD  IYEAGH'S. 
HkB  CSolonel.  •.--- .^  ........ 


Conn  Magennis*  *«.•..*.«.*  William  Cair. 


730  KING  JAMSB'B  IBIgH  ABMT  LIST 


BRYAN  MAOENNIS,  LORD  IVEAOH. 

Thjs  Magennifles  were  frcnn  rery  andent  tiine  the  territorial 
Lords  of  lyeagh,  in  Dalaindia  (County  of  Down),  olii^miiig 
their  descent  from  the  fionons  warrior  ConnaU  Ceamach,  and 
ranking  as  the  head  of  the  Cknna  Rory.  Li  1314,  when 
Edward  the  Second  sought  the  aid  of  the  magnates  of 
Lneland,  he  directed  an  especial  letter  missiye  to  Admilis 
'  Mac  Anegus,  Diiei  Hibemieorum  de  Onenagh^  he  being 
then  the  Magennis.  In  1380,  when  Edmund  Mortimer,  who 
had  married  the  grand-daughter  of  Edward  the  Third,  came 
over  to  Lreknd,  various  natire  chiefs  waited  upon  him,  and 
amongst  them  Art  Magennis,  the  Lord  of  Iveagh,  ^'  who," 
says  the  Four  Masters,  "  was  treacherously  taken  prisoner  at 
Mortimer's  residence,  in  consequence  of  which  the  Irish,  and 
many  of  the  English  themselves,  beeame  afnud  to  pkoe  any 
confidence  in  him,  or  trust  themselves  to  his  power."  This 
Magennis  died  in  two  years  after  of  the  plague,  at  Trim, 
where  he  was  imprisoned.  In  1402  King  Henry  the  Fourth 
granted  to  John  More  the  fee  of  the  manor  of  Rathskeagh, 
described  as  lying  on  the  marches  of  Dundalk,  near  O'Neill, 
Magennisj  and  O'Hanlon,  Irish  enemies,  to  bold  at  the  yearly 
render  of  a  sparrow-hawk. 

In  1418  the  celebrated  Lord  Fumival,  having  made  a  foray 
on  Iveagh)  sustained  a  severe  defeat;  and  an  immense  number 
of  the  English,  say  the  Four  Masters,  were  slain  or  taken 
prisoners  by  Magennis  on  that  occasion.  In  1426  Manus 
Mac  Hynnous  was  constituted  Constable  of  Trim,  and  in 
1550  Arthur   Magennis   was   Bishop    of  Dromore,  while 


LORO  iyeagh's  infantby.  731 

Eugene  (Owen)  Magennis  was  about  the  same  time  Bishop 
of  Deny.  At  Perrot's  Parliament  of  1585  this  Sept  was 
represented  by  Hugh,  the  son  of  Donal  oge^  son  of  Donal  dar 
(of  the  dark-brown  hair).  On  the  Plantation  of  Ulster, 
Bryan  Oge,  son  of  Rory  Magennis  of  Edenticallow,  County 
of  Down,  having  surrendered  all  his  lordship,  precinct,  or 
circuit  of  Killwarlin,  with  all  the  townlands  within  said 
territory,  obtained  a  re-grant  thereof  in  1611,  to  hold  same 
thenceforth  free  from  Boyal  coiiiposition.  Other  members  of 
the  Sept  obtained  grants  of  estates  in  the  same  county.  Sir 
Arthur  Magennis,  also,  releasing  to  the  £[ing  all  his  daim 
and  right  to  the  territory, of  Iveagh,  had  in  1613  a  grant  of 
various  and  extensive  townlands  of  his  old  inheritance  within 
Iveagh,  the  extent  of  which  was  soon  after  directed  to  be 
ascertained  on  Inquisition:  Many  others  of  the  Sept  were 
then  induced,  in  prudence  to  seek  similar  compromises  of 
their  ancient  titles. 

Arthur,  Lord  Viscount  Magennis,  and  Daniel  Magennis 
of  Angestown,  County  of  Meath,  were  attainted  in  1642. 
At  the  Supreme  Council  in  1646  sat  Arthur  Magennis, 
Bishop  of  Down  and  Connor,  as  one  of  the  Spiritual  Peers, 
while  of  the  Commons  were  five  of  the  Sept.  Cromwell's 
denouncing  ordinance  of  1652  excepted  from  pardon  for  life 
and  estate Magennis,  Viscount  Iveagh,  Sir  Con  Magen- 
nis of  the  County  of  Down,  Knight,  and  four  others  of  the 
name.  The  declaration  of  Royal  thanks  in  the  Act  of 
Settlement  includes  Captain  Fhelim  Magennis  and  Lieutenant 
Bryan  Magennis  of  the  Province  of  Ulster,  with  Lieutenant 
Con  *  Mac  Gennis '  of  Iveagh,  County  of  Down.  In  1681 
Anthony,  son  of  Brian  Mc  Gennis,  had  a  confirmatory  grant 
of  372  acres  in  Galway ;  as  had  Bryan  Mc  Ginnis  of  482  in 
the  same  county ;  while  Elizabeth  Magennis  passed  patent 


732  KING  JAMES'8  IBI8H  ABMT  LIST. 

for  3,012  in  BoBcommon.  On  the  Pension  List  c^  the 
EstaUishment  for  1687-8,  the  name  of  Arthur,  Lord 
Viscount  Iveagh,  appears  for  an  annuity  of  £300.  Besides 
Colonel  Lord  Ivea^h,  the  name  of  Magennis  is  oonmiissioned 
on  six  other  Begiments,  viz.,  in  Colond  Maxwell's  and  Sir 
Neill  O'Neill's  Dragoons,  and  in  the  Earl  of  Antrim's,  John 
Hamilton's,  Cormuck  O'Neill's,  and  Art  Mac  Mahon's  Begi- 
ments of  Infiintrj. 

The  Lord  Iveagh  and  his  Sept  furnished  King  James  with 
two  Begiments,  one  of  Dragoons  and  the  other  of  Lifiuitry. 
This  nobleman  sat  in  the  Parliament  of  1689  (his  outlawiy  of 
1642  having  been  reversed) ;  while  in  the  Commons,  Murtagh 
Magennis  of  Greencastle  and  Eiv^  Magennis  of  Castlewellaa, 
Esqrs.,  represented  the  County  of  Down,  and  Bernard 
Magennis  of  BaUygorionbeg  was  one  of  the  Members  for  the 
borough  of  Killileagh.  Lord  Iveagh  was  also  appointed 
Lord  Lieutenant  of  Down,  while  two  other  Magennises  were 

his  Deputy  Lieutenants In  June,  1691,  two  offioers  of 

this  Sept  were  killed  at  Athlone,  and  at  the  battle  of 
Aughrim  was  taken  prisoner  laeutenant-Colonel  Murtogh 
Magennis  (for  to  that  rank  had  a  Captain  of  Sir  Neill  O'Neill's 
Dragoons  arrived,  by  reason  of  the  slaughter  of  that  gallant 
Begiment  at  the  Boyne).  When  Galway  surrendered  in  a 
few  days  afler,  Lady  Iveagh  and  her  daughter,  being  then 
resident  in  the  town,  had  an  especial  protection  for  themselves 
in  the  Articles  of  Capitulation. 

Lord  Iveagh  married  the  Lady  Margaret  De  Bur^ 
daughter  of  William,  the  seventh  Earl  of  Clanricarde.  At 
the  dose  of  the  war  of  the  Bevolution  in  Ireland,  he  did  not 
accompany  the  Irish  army  to  France,  but  entered  the  Imperial 
or  Austrian  service,  with  a  choice  battalion  of  500,  part  of 
2,000|  Irish  troops  of  King  James's  old  army,  who  were  landed 


LORD  IVEAGH^S  IKFAKTBY.  788 

from  Cork  at  Hamburgh,  in  June,  1692.  See  ante,  p.  368. 
Another  portion  of  this  Sept  did,  however,  go  to  France,  and 
was  there  embodied  with  followers  of  M'Mahon,  Maguire, 
and  other  Ulster  Begiments,*  The  Attainders  of  1691 
present  twelve  of  the  name. 


FRANCIS  WAUCHOP,  LIEUTENANT- 

COLONEL, 

He  was  a  Scottbh  gentleman,  a  descendant,  it  might  seem, 
of  James  Wauohop  of  Ballygraphen,  naturalized  by  James 
the  First  on  the  plantation  of  Ulster,  and  doubtless  atdn  to 
Brigadier  John  Wauohop  hereafter  noticed,  Tyrconnel  gave 
him  this  Commission.  I{e.  served  throughout  all  this  war  in 
Ireland,  and,  on  its  termination*  accompanpng  the  exiles  to 
France,  he  was  engaged  in  the  Brigade  service  in  the  many 
Continental  campaigns,  that  succeeded  fSrom  the  treaty  of 
Limerick  to  the  dose  of  the  great  war  of  the  Spanish 
succession ;  after  which  he  passed,  with  the  permission  of  the 
French  monarch,  from  bis  service  to  that  of  Spain. 


^•m^rmimm* 


ENSIGN  WILLIAM  CARB. 

A  Thomas  Cabb  had  a  confirmatory  grant  of  360  acres  in 
the  Queen's  County  in  1668,  but  this  officer  appears  to  have 

*  aCaOaghanU  Green  Book^  p.  353,  and  Irish  Brigades^  yoI.  1,  p.  859. 


734  Knro  jamks's  ibibh  abmt  ubt. 

been  a  cadet  of  the  fiunilj  of  Carr,  who,  on  the  plantation  of 
UlateTy  or  rather  earlier,  were  enfeoffed  on  the  lands  of  Balle- 
dock  or  Carrstown  in  the  Little  Ardes,  hj  the  Savages  of 
Portaferry.  That  property  descended  in  the  Canrs  fiom 
&ther  to  son  until  abont  1762 ;  when  it  vested  in  three 
daoghters  c£  Bowland  Carr,  of  whom  one  having  died,  and 
the  other  two  having  intermarried  with  persons  of  the  name 

of  Mao  Hemy,  Uie  property  was  sold  in  1792  to Fitter, 

in  whose  representatives  it  now  is.* 

*  Per  iiifi}fiiistioii  of  John  W*  BsmiSy  £sq-t  Dowi^Nitxidi^ 


M'ELLICOTT'S  INFANT9T, 


785 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 


COLONEL  BOOEB  M'ELLIGOTT'S* 


The  Colonel 

Teigne  M'Carty, 
lieatenant-ColmieL 

[Maurice  HnsBey,  sobtti- 
tated  as  lient-CQlone) 
.    in  1690.] 

[Edmund  Fitzgerald, 
Major  ] 

Daniel  M^Cartjr. 

Oliyer  Stephenson. 

Daniel  O'DonQghoo. 

OwenMK^fftj. 

John  Fitz-Geiald. 

Geoi^  Aylmer. 

Eedmimd  Feiriter. 

Chariea  M*Cajty. 

Da^d  F!tc>Gerald. 

Edmund  Fltc-lfianrice. 

Teigue  M<Cart7, 


Lhuteitaittt, 

Ponoogh  Mac  Fineei^. 
(M*Cart7.) 


JMffiUj 
Chailes  MK:;art7. 


Maiding. 


Teigne  M*Anliffe. 
Nicholas  Stephenson. 
Callixtns  O'Donoghoo. 
f—  CDonoghoe. 
Ganett  Fits-Maurice. 
Peter  Aylmer. 
David  Rice. 
Tnriogh  Sweeny. 
James  Fltz-Oeiald. 
niomas  Ellicott 
William  Harding, 


Daniel  Doiding. 
John  CoQamors. 
Charles  MK}arty. 

Callaghan. 

Nicholas  Fita-Gersld. 
John  Connor. 
Maurice  Ferriter. 
Owen  MK:;arty. 
John  M*£llicott 
Valentine  M'EUicott 
Daniel  Connor. 


736  UNO  JAXsalB  xbuh  abxt  un. 


COLONEL  ROGEB  MAC  ELLICOTT, 

This  lumie  is  wholly  distinct  firom  that  of  M'Gilficoddj,  and 
its  earlj  conneotion  with  Kerry  is  shewn  bj  the  fiict,  that  one 
of  the  parishes  of  this  Coonty  is  called  Bally-Mao-EUioott. 
In  1604  John  William  Mac  EUigot  and  Thomas  Mac  EUigot 
had  two  of  those  pardons,  which  the  policy  of  King  James 
the  First  so  liberally  dispensed;  yet,  when  in  1613  Sir 
Thomas  Roper,  Knight,  passed  patent  for  various  lands  in 
Monster,  amongst  these  were  estates  in  the  County  of  Kerry, 
described  as  parcel  of  the  lands  of  Ulick  Mac  EUigott, 
attainted.  In  the  Patent  Rolls  of  1625,  is  a  pardon  of  aliena- 
tion to  Maurice  M'EUigott,  saQCtiimiqg  his  granting  over  to 
his  nephew  and  heir,  John  M^miigott,  {inter  alia)  TuUy- 
garron,  Lisardbouly,  Glandonellane,  and  Tourreagh,  all  of 
which  afterwards  passed,  by  the  marriage  of  an  heiress  of  this 
name,  into  the  Chute  family,  and  are  still  in  the  possession  of 
lUchard  Chute  of  Blennerville,  late  Sheriff  of  Kerry.  An 
Inquisition  was  held  on  Maurice's  estates  in  1624,  as  was 
another  on  those  of  John  M^EUigott  in  1631. 

From  the  Roll  of  this  Reg^ent  it  seems  to  have  been 
thoroughly  of  Kerry  formation,  and  it  wa»  part  of  the  Irish 
army  which  King  James,  before  his  abdication,  brought  over 
to  England,  as  a  force  on  whose  fidelity  he  could  rely.  On 
one  occasion  during  its  sqjoum  in  England,  ^'the  King,** 
writes  the  Earl  of  Clarendon  in  his  Journal,  ''went  to 
Hampton  Court  to  see  *  Mac  Gillycudd's*  R^m^t,  lately 
come  out  of  Ireland.***    In  June,  1688,  this  force  was  ordered 


*  Smgei's  OorrBtpondence  i^lfiitd  Clarmdon^  &c,  vol  2,  p.  190. 


m'ellicott's  ihfantbt.  787 

to  return  to  its  native  country;  on  the  way  to  which,  at 
Chester,  the  Colonel  receiyed  intelligence  of  the  birth  of  the 
young  Prince,  when  he  wrote  (16th  June),  ''  I  am  enraptured 
at  the  birth  of  a  Prince,  and  Secretary  Bkthwayte  may  be 
assured  that  the  whole  Regiment  shall,  according  to  their 
duty,  at  the  hour  appointed,  with  rery  signal  tokens  express 
their  overflowing  joys  for  our  new-bom  Prince."  Accord- 
ingly, he  again  wrote  from  thence  the  30th  June  to  Blath- 
wayte,  promising  a  full  relation  of  his  journey  into  Ireland, 
and  heggixkg  to  learn  if  his  appearance  at  c6urt  immediately 
were  necessary.  "  Among  the  Southwell  Jf/SS.,"  writes  Mr. 
Bowan,  "  was  a  letter  from  Chestei^  to  this  Secretary  of  State, 
setting  forth  hoW  enthusiastically  the  Irish  Begiment  (».«., 
McEUigott's)  drank  the  health  of  the  new-bom  Prince  of 
Wales;  while  another  from  the  authorities  of  that  citgr  com- 
plained that  the  excise  would  suffer,  from  the  way  in  which 
the  Irish  force  had  marched  away  without  paying  their  tavern 
bills.*"  "  My  ears,"  writes  Captain  Shakerly,  the  Govem6r  of 
Chester  Castle  (August  29th,  1688),  '*are  filled  with  the 
debts  the  officers  have  left  unpaid,  which  if  not  speedily  paid, 
the  public  houses  wiU  be  broken  here  and  the  revenue  of  th« 
excise  unpaid."  In  the  PaJrli&ment  of  1689,  this  Colonel 
Boger  McEllicott  and  Comelius  M<i6illicuddy  of  the  Irish 
Sept  of  the  Beeks,  were  the  Bepresentatives,  in  the  Parlia- 
ment of  Dublin,  for  the  borough  of  Ardfert.  Of  McEllicott, 
who  was  then  Governor  of  Kinsale,  D*  Avaux*  wrote  to  M.  de 
Seignelay ,  immediately  before  the  meetiiig  of  that  Parliament, 
'  En  attendant.  Monsieur,  que  j*aye  Fhonneur  de  vous  fidre 
scavoir  celuy  que  j'auray  choisy^  vous  pouvez  ordonner  aux 
maistres  de  bastemens  qui  porteront  des  lettres,  les  donner  a 

*  NegotiaHonSi  p.  184. 
VOL.  II.  8  B 


7S8  KDIO  JAMMtfB  mBH  AEMT  LUT 


bbL  MijcKIhgoiAy  gonttneMtt  de  Kionky  cot  im  rart  hoiiffjito 
h^tmwn^  de  meg  amifl,  et  qid  me  Ibb  ficm  teDcr  fart  pooctiidle- 


In  SepConberf  1690t  uecmied  the  fliege  of  Coik,  wbere  the 
fntare  Duke  of  MulbonNi^g^  AaxAatart  die  fiicnd  of  James 
die  Seeond,  fiooglit  egniHt  him.  The  Citj  wwb  niunerwialy 
gKriMmed,  and  its  governor  mm  this  Colond  Mac  EQicotti 
who,  acooiding  to  King  James,  **  showed  more  oomage  tlwa 
pmdenoe,  in  reAiaingd»  good  conditioDS  which  were  offiered 
him  at  fint*  Indeed,  the  Dnke  of  Berwick  had  so  little 
thought  of  its  sostaimng  a  n^e,  that  he  oideied  him  to  bom 
die  town,  and  retire  with  Us  garrison  into  Keny.  But, 
instead  of  that,  he  soflfered  himsdf  to  be  beaeged,  and, 
tfaoo^  in  no  oonditioa  to  hold  it  out,  did  so  however  for  five 
dajssgainst  Msrlboioagh  at  the  head  of  a  regokr  beneging 
force  of  above  10,600  Foot  and  1,500  Horse,  provided  with 
every  reqmsite  for  soooess,  and  aided  by  the  fire  of  two  shipe 
(^  war,  diat  played  their  cann<m  through  the  walls,  and  threw 
their  bombs  into  the  place.  At  last,  a  conadenble  breach 
being  made,  and  no  more  than  two  small  barrels  of  powder 
left,  the  garrison,  on  the  approach  o(  a  last  general  asaanlt 
whidi  it  would  be  imposdble  to  reost,  snrrendered  as 
prisoners  of  war,  to  the  nmnber  of  between  four  and  five 
thonsMid  men.  The  terms  of  the  cajntulation  (a  copy  of 
which  is  preserved  in  Harris's  MS8.  Dob.  Soc.,  voL  10,  p.  158) 
were,  however,  most  disgiacefiilly  violated.*  Colonel  Roger 
was,  on  dus  sarrendert  sent  over  a  prisoner  to  the  Tower  of 
Ixmdon,  where,  as  appears  from  his  own  petition,  he  was 
detained  three  or  fonr  years;  having,  however,  die  liberty  of 
the  Tower  at  large,  and  sometimes  going  out  into  the  town 


*  See  (TCaUaghan's  Oreen  Book^  pp.  235-8. 


M'BLLIGOTT*8  JSFXSTKT.  739 

to  the  bagnio  for  his  health,  on  order  of  the  governor.  The 
continuance  of  his  imprisonment,  it  is  averred,  resulted  from 
Lord  Clancarty's  escape  (see  ante  p.  117),  after  which  he  was 
abo  kept  close  prisoner,  '*  without  ^ving  any  new  cause  of 
offence,  and  was  reduced  in  health  to  the  last  extremity.*"  In 
June,  1697,  he  was  exchanged  and  permitted  to  pass  over  to 
France,  where,  on  the  formation  of  the  Segment  of  Clan- 
carty,  he  was  appointed  its  Colonel,  Edward  Scott  its  Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel, and  Cornelius  Murphy  its  Major. 

This  Regiment  was,  with  Dillon's,  engaged  at  the  memor- 
able siege  of  Barcelona,  the  capture  of  which  rewarded  their 
valour  and  led  to  the  treaty  of  Byswick,  and  the  termination 
of  the  war.*  From  the  mention  of  a  General  McElligott 
amongst  a  number  of  great  military  or  civil  officers  of  Irish 
birth  or  descent  in  the  Austrian  service,  who  dined  together 
in  Vienna  at  a  banquet  on  St.  Patrick's  Day,  1778  (see  anUi 
p.  503),  it  is  probable  that  the  brave  Colonel  McEllicott 
emigrated  to  and  settled  in  the  Imperial  dominions,  where 
the  name  was  perpetuated  in  the  Austrian  Army  till  the 
close  of  the  last  century  (see  post^  at  Colonel  Cuconaught 
McGuire).  Before  the  liberation  of  La&yette,  his  family  and 
companions,  in  1797,  from  their  confinement  by  the  Austrian 
government,  it  appears  that  a  Captain  McElligott  was 
entrusted  with  their  detention  ajs  state  prisoners ;  and  that  to 
his  treatment  of  and  conduct  towards  them,  the  prisoners 
bore  gratefid  testimony ."f 

*  O'Connor's  Milit,  Mm.  pp.  199  and  230. 
t  (yCaUagharCs  Green  Bocky  p.  286. 


740  KIVO  JA]Cn*8  IBI8H  ASMT  UST 


[XJEnTENANT^OLONEL  MAUSICE 

HUSSET.] 

His  nune  or  nmk  does  not  ^ppcBr  on  the  present  Anny  List, 
bat  is  inserted  on  the  aothoritj  o(  the  appendix  to  Kingi^M 
State  of  Hu  PrctegtanUt  ss  is  also  the  name  o( 

[MAJOB  EDMUND  FITZGERALD.] 

The  pfeoeding  remark^  on  the  Lieutenant-Coloneli  eqnallj 
9ffpUeB  to  this  Major. 


CAPTAIN  DANIEL  DONOGHUE. 

Ths  O'Donoghues  6on0titated  hn  andent  Se][>t  of  the  County 
of  Cork,  from  which  they  were  expelled  in  the  twelfth 
oentuy  by  the  McCartys  and  O^Mahonys.  Thence  settling 
in  Keriy,  they  displaced  the  O'CarroUs  and  other  fiunilies  of 
the  race  of  Conaire,  who  had  pteyionsly  inhabited  the  country 
round  Lough  Lene  and  Ejllamey;  erected  a  new  territory 
there^  to  which  waiB  given  the  naine  of  Onagh-i-Donoghue. 
The  O^Donoghues  of  Lough  Lene  were  of  Royal  Munster 
lineaget  their  ancestor,  Dubh-da-Bhoireann,  who  was  slain 
in  957,  having  been  King  of  that  province,  and  his  eon 
Donald  commanded  the  forces  of  Louth  iojid  Munster  at  Uie 
battle  of  Clontarf.*    The  Sept  was  distinguished  into  the 

*  (7Ihnooan^$  Book  of  Bighi»t  pp.  60  and  73. 


M*BLUOOTT'8  IIWANTBT,  741 

I 

lines  of  O'Donoghue  More  and  O'Donoghue  Rosb,  and  the 
annals  of  Innis&llen  are,  as  niight  be  expected,  very  fxdl  in 
notices  of  each.  They  do,  however,  record  an  atrocious 
sacrilege  perpetrated  in  1180  by  Maoldun,  son  of  Daniel 
O'Donoghue  on  that  lovely  island.  "He  carried  away  all 
temporal  treasures  and  other  goods,  that  were  kept  therein  as 
in  a  sanctuary,  and  under  the  care  of  the  clergy;  he  also 
gathered  the  gold,  silver,  with  all  preciQus  vestments  and 
other  clothes,  without  respect  to  God  or  man."  It  would  seem 
that  as  an  atonement  for  this  desecration,  the  noble  religious 
house  of  Jerpoint  was  fouaded  about  this  time,  for  Cister- 
dans,  by  Donogh  O'Donoghue,  styled  Prince  of  Qsspry ,  whose 
tomb,  sculptured  in  bold  relief,  is  shown  in  the  Chancel  of 
that  interesting  ruin.  This,  it  may  be  added  was  long  reputed 
one  of  the  most  influential  and  wealthy  of  the  monastic  order, 
which,  in  Ireland,  spread  itself  over  the  fertilest  districts  of 
the  cotmtiy,  and  acquired  such  political  influence,  that  the 
abbotts  of  twelve  of  its  Irish  establishments  sat  and  ranked  as 
Mitred  Lords  of  Parliament. 

The  O'Donoghue  continued  to  be  a  powerftil  Sept  in  Kerry 
until,  in  the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  taking  part  with  the 
unfortunate  Earl  of  Desmond,  their  estates  were  confiscated 
and  their  strength,  broken  down.  In  1605,  Theobald  Bourke, 
Baron  of  Castleconnel,  had  a  grant  of  {inter  alia)  Glenflesk, 
containing  twenty rone  caruct^tes,  *  almost  all  mountain  bog, 
and  unprofitable,'  part  of  the  estate  of  6eoffi:ey  O'Donoghue 
of  Glinne, '  dead  in  rebellion  f  and  in  1613,  Valentine  Browne 
of  Molahifie  had  a  grant  of  Qnaght-O'Ponoghue  More,  in 
the  country  of  Desmond,  the  manor  and  site  of  the  Castle  of 
Boss-0'Donoghue,  the  islands  of  Innisfallen  and  Mucruss,  and 
sundry  other  islands  therein,  with  all  the  waters  and  fishings 
to  sidd  manor  appertaixiing,  all  which  premises  (says  the 


743  KIKG  JAMBS'8  IBISH  ABKT  LIST. 

patent)  had  been  pnrohafled  hj  the  grantee's  fiither,  Sr 
Nicbolas  Browne,  from  the  Earl  of  Clancar,  who  held  same  in 
tail  male  under  letters  patent  of  1588.  Teigne  O'Donogfane 
of  Westmanehj  in  the  oountj  of  Cork,  is  the  single  individnai 
of  the  Sept  who  appears  on  the  Boll  of  1642  Attaind^-s ; 

and  on  these  of  1691,  are  named  only  Donoghue  of 

Kilfinan  and  William  Dono^ue  of  Newtown  in  the  same 
county;  yet  were  there  engaged  in  this  campaign,  besides  the 
above  Captain  Daniel  and  Lieutenant  Callixtus,  Geo&ey 
Donoghue  of  the  Glynns  in  Colonel  Nicholas  Browned 
Regiment,  with  a  Captain  in  Owen  MaoCartie's,  and  a  third 
an  Ensign  in  Major-General  Boisseleau's. 


CAPTAIN  GEORGE  AYLMER. 

Of  this  &mily,  see  ante^  p.  197,  &c.  The  original  appoint- 
ment of  this  officer,  '  our  trusty  and  well  beloved  George 
Alymer,'  to  be  '  a  Captain  in  our  Regiment  of  Guards,' 
notifies  the  Royal  will  and  pleasure  that  he  do  *  take  place  and 
command  upon  occasion  in  our  army,  as  youngest  LieutenanU 

Colonel  therein,  Ac. **  Given  at  our  Court  at  Dublin 

Castle,  the  24th  day  of  August,  1689,  and  in  the  fifth  year  of 
our  reign, — ^By  his  Majesty's  command,  Ri.  Nagle.***  This 
Aylmer  was  of  the  old  line  of  Lyons,  and  theretofore,  as 
appears  by  the  Army  List,  had  been  placed  a  Captain  in 
that  Regiment.      Four  years  previous  to  the  date  of  the 

*  The  originiil  commission,  endorsed  No.  122,  is  in  the  possession  of 
Michael  Valentine  A7lmer,  Esq.,  the  lineal  representative  and  heir  male  of 
the  aboTe  George. 


m'sllicott's  iNFAirrRT.  743 

commission,  lie  married  Mary,  eldest  daughter  of  Sir  Valentine 
Browne,  subsequently  created  Baron  Castleross  and  first  Vis- 
count Kenmare;  and  himself  ytba  one  of  the  Bepresentatiyes 
of  the  County  of  Kildare  in  King  James's  Parliament  of  1689. 
Walker,  in  his  History  of  the  Siege  of  Derry^  says  that  a  Sir 
George  Aljrmer  was  taken  prisoner  there;  but  if  the  remark 
applies  to  this  individual,  he  was  subsequently  engaged  in  the 
war,  and  was  comprehended, '  as  then  Colonel  George  Aylmer,* 
in  the  Articles  of  Limerick.  At  the  Court  of  Claims  in  1700, 
he  sought  and  was  allowed  in  right  of  his  wife,  her  portion  off 
the  lands  forfeited  by  Lord  Kenmare;  he  abo  claimed  an 
interest  in  the  lands  of  Athcame,  *  late  of  the  private  estate/ 
f.«.,  of  James  the  Second  when  Duke  of  York.  Captun 
Geoige  died  in  1729,  and  ¥ra8  interred  in  the  family  vault  at 
Lyons.  His  grandson,  Michael  Aylmer,  sold  in  1796  the 
Lyons  property,  which  had  been  for  previous  centuries  in  his 
line  of  ancestors,  to  the  first  Lord  Cloncurry. 


LIEUTENANT  NICHOLAS  STEVENSON. 

*'  The  Stephensons,*'  writes  the  Beverend  Mr.  Bowan,  *^  were 
of  Ballyvohane,  County  of  Limerick,  correlatives  of  Mo 
Ellicott ;  their  mother  having  been,  as  was  his,  a  daughter  of 
Bishop  Cros^ie.*^  They  were  also  connected  with  the  Kenmare 
Brownes  and  the  McCarthies. 


744  KINO  JAMS8*8  IBISH  ABMT  LIST. 


LIEUTENANT  WILLIAM  HARDING. 

The  name  of  *  Harden*  is  of  record  in  Ireland  from  the  time 
of  Edward  the  Third ;  but  nothing  is  known  of  this  officer  or 
his  immediate  family.  In  1442,  QeQ&ej  Harding  was 
appointed  to  the  office  of  Ch^ef  Seijeant  of  the  County  of 
£[ildare.  In  1611,  Bichard  Harding  had  a  grant  of  certain 
lands  in  Muskeny,  forfeited  by  Daniel  MacFyneeiii  son  of 
Owen  MacCarthie;  and,  in  1667,  Thomas,  Henry,  and  John 
Harding,  had  confirmatoiy  grants  of  lands  in  Limerick,  as  had 
Richard  Harding  in  two  years  after,  of  589  acres  in  Wexford. 
-- — :  ^  ^aIdin,*  was  the  Surgeon  on  Colonel  Parker's  Horse. 


ENSIGif  JOHN  COLLAMORE. 
NoT9iifa  has  been  fMcertai^ied  of  this  ofl^cer, 


O'REILLT'S  nnTASTBT. 


745 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 


COLONEL  EDKUND  O'BEILLT'S. 


Captamim 

Limiteiumt$, 

Emignt, 

XSW  \AfLVMMOkM 

L11X0  Rdlly, 

N.  Smith 

Philip  Beilly. 

Lieatenant-Colond . 

PhUip  Refllj, 
Major. 

^WMMWVM^^WMA 

JohsBdlly. 

Edmmid  BeOly . 

John  BeiUy. 

Fittpatiick. 

Fitzpatridc 

t Fitcpatriek. 

Bryan  Bdlly. 

Charles  Beilly. 

Owen  Beilly. 

MacCabe. 

•, —  MacCah?. 

.-^Bcdlly. 

Sdmund  Beilljr. 

James  Beilly. 

Charles  Beilly. 

John  BeiUj,  Senr. 

Bryan  Beilly. 

Charles  Beilly. 

JohnBeOly. 

Owen  Beilly. 

Bryan  Beilly. 

Owen  Brady. 

Thomas  Brady. 

James  Brady. 

.. Keraan. 

John  BelUy. 

OwenBdlly. 

Edmmid  Beilly. 

JohnBeilly. 

James  Beilly, 

Hngh  Beilly.. 

Charles  BeiUy. 

Edmnnd  Beilly, 

.—  Daly. 

Jamee  Beilly. 

Owen  Beilly. 

Owen  Beilly. 

mcholas  Smith. 

Ed.  Smith. 

Thos.  Smith. 

Hugh  B^y. 

]d.  Beilly. 

. Daly. 

Edmond  Beilly. 

Art  Callaghan. 

Thos.  Beilly. 

Beverend  Hugh  Beilly,  Cktgfktm, 
Lnke  Tnlly,  Surgeon. 


746  KIVO  JAMBS'S  aUBH  AXXT  LOT 


COLONEL  EDMUND  O'REILLY. 

The  old  hutoric  Sept  of  O^BdUj  is  rery  fbllj  duonided  in 
the  Annals  of  the  Four  Matten ;  its  Clneft  were  Lords  of 
East  Brefbey  (tlie  dmatj  of  CsTan),  mod  when  Edwsid  the 
Seoondf  in  1314,  sought  aid  firom  the  Irish  Magnates,  he 
directed  an  espedal  ktter  misaye  for  that  object  to  Gillys 
0*lleilly,  *  duel  Hibermeamm  de  Brefney.^  The  ecclesiastical 
rank,  to  which  thdr  learning  and  worth  exalted  them  within 
their  ancient  territory,  may  be  estimated  by  the  frequency  of 
their  soocesnon  in  the  Sees  of  Ulster.  Five  Bishops  of 
Kilmore,  oUom  Brefiiey,  were  of  the  name,  two  of  Clogher, 
one  of  Derry,  and  five  others  Primates  of  Armagh. 

In  1310,  Mahoon  *  MaoK^^  0*Bayky',  of  the  County 
Meath,  had  letters  of  protection  Ux  himself  and  his  Sept; 
whfle  in  1333,  Robert  Poer,  clerk,  had  a  gnmt  of  £20  for  his 
services  in  the  suite  of  the  Justidaiy  at  the  '  storming'  of 
Richard  OlteiUy  in  Kells.  Jn  1388,  Mahon  and  Mah^hy 
OlEUilly,  Irishmen,  had  liberty  to  sojourn  amongst  the  King's 
li^es;  and  in  1401,  Owen  O'RdUy  bound  himself  and  his 
Sept  by  indenture  and  oath,  to  be  H^e  subjects  to  the  King, 
during  the  minority  of  the  heir  of  Roger,  then  late  Earl  of 
March.  In  1409,  Bang  Henry  granted  to  Canir,  son  of 
Gillesy  O'Reyley,  and  Cormook  his  brother,  with  their 
followers,  liberty  to  inhabit  in  the  marches  of  Kells. 

In  1413,  the  O'Reillys  and  Mac  Cabes  made  a  desperate 
incursion  into  Meath,  burning  and  committing  these  depreda- 
tions,  which  the  struggle  for  independence  too  obTiously 
sngg^ted;  ^they  were  however'  say  the  Four  Masters, 
'  orertaken  by  the  English,  who  slew  Mahon  Mac  Cabe, 


o'bbillt's  infantbt.  747 

Loughlin  Mac  Cabe,  and  a  great  many  of  their  people.*  In 
1422,  the  O'Connors  and  O'Reillys,  having,  with  a  great 
multitude  of  '  Irish  rebek  and  English  enemies',  committed 
great  devastation  on  the  Pale,  the  Sheriff  of  Dublin  was 
ordered  to  proceed  with  the  po^se  comitatus  to  Trim,  in  aid  of 
the  Justice  in  these  parts.  In  1441,  Richard  O'Reilly  had  a 
liberate  of  100  marks,  for  his  services  in  retaining  soldiers 
towards  the  suppression  of  these  enemies. 

The  death  of  the  O'Reilly,  Hugh  Conallaoh,  son  of 
Maolmora,  son  of  John,  son  of  Cathal,  in  1583,  and  of  his 
wife  Isabel  Bamewail,  is  glowingly  commemorated  by  the 
Annalists.  His  son  John  roe  O'Reilly,  daimed  to  represent 
the  sept  in  Perrot's  Parliament  of  1585.  Submitting  to  the 
English  government,  he  repaired  to  London,  where  he  was 
honourably  received  at  Court,  and  knighted  by  Queen  Eliza- 
beth. Overcome  by  Royal  favour,  he  consented  to  hold  his 
extensive  estates  as  under  the  Crown,  and  to  abandon  the 
ancient  tenures  and  customs  of  tanistry ;  but  was  soon  after- 
wards induced  to  take  part  with  the  Earl  of  Tyrone  against 
the  English.  He  died  at  Cavan  in  1596,  and  on  his  death, 
his  brother  Philip,  who  had  some  few  years  previously  been 
confined  in  the  Castle  of  Dublin,  but  escaped  with  red  Hugh 
O'Donnell  in  1592,  was  appointed  *  Prince  of  Brefiiey'  by  the 
Earl  of  Tyrone.  He  however  held  his  Lordship  for  but  a 
short  time,  having  been  accidentally  killed  in  the  November 
afier  his  mauguration.  -Maolmora,  the  son  of  Sir  John,  '  a 
young  man  of  fine  person,  great  valour  and  ambition,'  who 
was  married  to  a  niece  of  the  Earl  of  Ormond,  on  the  death  of 
his  uncle  Philip,  aspiring  to  the  lordship,  joined  the  English, 
repaired  to  London  on  his  father's  policy,  and  was  received 
with  no  less  favour  by  the  Queen,  who  gave  him  a  grant  of 
lands  in  Cavan  under  letters  patent,  with  the  promise  of  an 


m  vpa 


748  KXSQ  Jamba's  uasa  abut  list. 

Earid<mi.  He  commaiided  a  Begiment  of  CaTaliy  in  the 
English  service^  and  iraa  called  ^  the  Queen's  0*Beilly/  He 
was  slain  in  1598,  at  the  great  battle  of  the  Yellow  Ford  in 
Armagh. 

In  the  time  of  James  the  First,  Sir  John  Dayis,  the 
Attorney-General,  wrote  an  interesting  Seport  relative  to  the 
County  of  Cavan  and  its  ancient  rolers,  which  is  preserved  in 
the  MSS.  of  Trinity  CoU^e,  Dnblm,  (F.  iiL  16,  fol.  121,  &c.) 
and  in  1606,  a  oommission  was  directed  to  Sir  Grairett  Moore 
and  others,  to  ascertain  what  lands  were  come  to  the  Crown 
in  Cavan ;  in  pursuance  whereof,  an  Inquisition  found  that 
Philip  CBeilly  was  sased  in  the  36th  year  of  the  rdgn  of 
Elizabeth  (whoi  be  went  into  open  rebellion  and  was  slain), 
of  the  entire  region  or  territory  of  Bre&ey  O'Beilly,  contiuning 
seven  entire  Barqnies,  '  into  which,  on  the  day  after  Philippe 
death,  Edmund  Q*Beilly  entered,  and  levying  open  war 
against  the  Queen,  was  also  slain;  when  the  aforesaid  Sir 
John  O'Beilly,  claiming  the  said  country  by  tanistry,  was  for 
a  time  received  into  the  Queen's  favour,  but  he  adhered  to 
Tyrone  and  died  a  rebel/  No  less  than  52  of  this  name, 
extensive  proprietors  in  Cavan»  were  thereupon  attainted.  In 
1608,  Sir  Garret  Moore  of  Mellifont,  the  above  Commissioner, 
had  a  grant  of  a  large  portion  of  the  Cavan  estates,  of  Brian 
son  of  Phelim  CBeilly,  an  outlaw ;  as  had  Mary,  Lady  Delvin, 
widow,  and  her  son  Sir  Richard  Nugent,  Lord  Delvin,  of  other 
Cavan  Estates  of  O'Eeillys  att^ted.  In  1610,  Sir  Thomas 
Bidgeway  passed  patent  for  yet  more  of  the  O'Beillys' 
Cavan  property  on  the  plantation  system,  parcels  of  which  are 
described  as  having  come  to  the  Crown  *  by  the  killing  in 
rebellion  of  Bryan  ne  Sawegh,  in  Mona^ian  ;*  while  at  the 
same  time  and  under  the  terror  of  the  Plantation,  Hugh 
O'Beilly  and  Maolmurry,  son  of  Philip  '  O^Reillie,'  and  others 


'  0*REILLT*8  INFANTRY.  ^4d 

of  the  Sept,  were  fain  to  take  out  patents  fol^  ceriain  de^ 
nominations  within  their  ancient  territory; 

An  Inquisition  of  1629,  found  that  John  Hamiltoii,  the 
Lord  Aubignj,  and  James  Hamilton,  to  whom  King  James 
had  granted  lands  in  Ulster,  had  neither  of  them  taken  the 
prescribed  oath  of  supremacy,  and  that  they  had  also  underlet 
to  mere  Irish,  (the  ancient  occupants,  chiefly  the  O'Reillys)^ 
'  whereby  the  premises  did  escheat  and  coilie  to  the  Crown,* 
and  sundry  others  of  the  Plantation  forfeited  their  grants  foir 
the  same  reason.  In  1635,  Colonel  Philip  O'Reilly,  of 
Ballinacargy  Castie  in  tixe  County  of  Cavan,  was  recognised 
as  the  O'Reilly;  he  was  son  of  Hugh,  son  of  the  before 
mentioned  Sir  John,  and  when  a  young  man  had  served  some 
time  in  the  Spanish  Army.  Shortly  after  his  return  to 
Ireland,  he  became  One  of  the  chief  leaders  ih  the  great 
<  rising'  of  1641,  and  was  a  distiiiguished  commander  for  miemy 
years  in  co-operation  with  Owen  Roe  O'Neill,  to  whose  sister 
Rose  he  was  married.  He  was  attainted  in  1642,  as  were 
seven  others  of  the  name.  In  1652,  Colonel  Phillip  was 
further  denounced  by  Cromwell's  Act,  as  was  also  Mablmulry 
O'Reilly  of  the  County  of  Cavail.  Philip  was  necessitated  to 
expatriate  himself,  and,  entering  the  Spanish  service  in  the 
Netherlands,  died  there  in  the  year  1655,  and  was  buried  in 
the  Irish  Monastery  at  LOuvain.  His  relative^  Colonel  Miles 
O'ReiUy  of  Camett,  was  High  Sheriff  of  the  County  of  Cavan 
in  1641,  and  was  a  commander  of  note  at  that  period.  He  also 
retired  along  with  Philip,  and  afterwards  went  to  France,  where 
he  died  about  1660,  and  was  buried  in  the  Irish  monastery  at 
Chalons-suivMame.  Hugh  Roe,  the  son  of  Colonel  Philip^ 
was  killed  in  battie  with  the  Parliamentary  forces  in  1651:* 

*  These  remarks  on  the  O^BeOlys  are  chiefly  gathered  from  Dr.  Mat 
Dermotitt  Notes  to  the  Foot  Matten. 


750  KING  JAXES'S   IRISH  ARMY  LIST. 

The  Colonel  here  under  consideration,  was  popularly  styled 
'Eamun  buidhe.^  He  accompanied  James  the  Second  from 
France  to  Ireland,  and  was  by  that  Monarch  appointed 
Governor  of  the  County  of  Cavan.  He  was  there  in  1690, 
when  the  sharp  encounter  took  place  between  the  Duke  of 
Berwick  and  Colonel  Wolseley ;  and,  amongst  the  Jacobite 
officers  mentioned  as  slain  on  that  occasion,  were  a  Lieutenant- 
Colonel,  a  Major,  and  a  Captain  O'Reilly.  This  Colonel 
subsequently  fought  at  the  Bojme,  at  Limerick,  and  at  the 
second  siege  of  Athlone.  In  1691  he  was  Grovemor  of 
Lanesborough,  and  when  Wauchop,  the  Governor  of  the 
Castle  of  Athlone,  learned  that  De  Ginkell  intended  to  cross, 
he  gave  warning  to  O'Reilly,  directing  him  in  case  of  any 
danger,  to  send  for  the  Earl  of  Antrim's  Regiment,  which 
was  ready  to  advance  on  the  first  signal  for  Lanesborough, 
and  to  drive  the  English  into  the  river.  Colonel  O'Reilly 
accordingly  threw  up  strong  works  in  the  only  accessible  part 
of  the  bank  at  the  Connaught  side,  and  De  Ginkell's  idea  of 
passing  over  there  was  consequently  abandoned.*  At  the 
time  of  the  surrender  of  Galway  (July  1691),  this  Colonel 
being  in  the  town  was  one  of  the  hostages  for  its  due  surrender, 
and,  in  its  articles  of  capitulation,  an  especial  protection  was 
inserted  for  his  wife's  mother  and  family,  then  residing  there 
with  him ;  similar  protection  being  also  given  to  his  brother, 
Lieutenant  Luke  ReiUy,  and  to  Philip,  with  their  respective 
wives  and  families,  all  then  likewise  in  the  town.  After  the 
Capitulation  of  Limerick,  Colonel  Edmund  and  many  of  his 
own  regiment  retired  with  the  Irish  refugees  to  France,  where 
he  died  in  1693,  leaving  by  his  wife  Joan,  daughter  of  Bryan 
O'Ferrall  of  the  County  of  Longford,  a  son  Eogan  (Owen), 

•  (TCaUaghan^s  Green  Booh,  p.  317. 


o'bsillt'b  infantrt.  751 

who,  on  his  father^s  decease,  entered  into  Dorrington's,  after- 
wards Dillon's  Brigade,  married  at  St.  Gennains  the  daughter 
of  Colonel  Felix  O'Neill  (who  was  killed  at  Aughrim),  and 
died  in  1735,  leaving  a  son,  Edmund  O'Beilly,  bom  in  1722, 
who  entered  the  Brigades  in  four  years  after  his  father's  death, 
was  a  Captain  in  Lally's  in  1757,  in  the  following  year  was 
created  a  Knight  of  St.  Louis,  in  1763  a  Captain  in  Dillon's 
Begiment,  in  1773  ranked  as  a  retired  Lieutenant-Colonel, 
and  was  living  in  Paris  at  the  commencement  of  the  French 
Bevolution.* 

Besides  Colonel  Edmund,  Luke  Beilly  ranks  on  this  Begi- 
ment  as  Lieutenant-Colonel,  with  thirty-four  other  officers  of 
the  name.  In  Colonel  Art  Mao  Mahon's  Infantry  no  less 
than  fourteen  of  this  sept  held  commissions ;  while  one  of  the 
name  was  a  Lieutenant  in  Lord  Gormanston'S)  and  another 
was  an  Ensign  in  Colonel  Bichard  Nugent's.  John  Beyley 
of  Garryrobuck  and  Philip  O'Beilly  represented  the  County 
of  Cavan  in  the  Parliament  of  1689.  The  former  raised  a 
Begiment  of  Dragoons  for  King  James's  service  at  his  own 
expense,  assisted  at  the  si^^e  of  Deny  in  the  same  year,  was 
particularly  distinguished  at  the  afiair  of  CaVan  in  1690» 
fought  afterwards  at  the  Boyne,  and  at  Aughrim,  and  threw 
himself  into  Limerick,  where  be  was  included  in  the  articles 
of  Capitulation,  and  thus  saved  his  estate.  He  remained  in 
Ireland  himself,  but  his  Begiment  was  disbanded.f  He  lived 
to  the  year  1716,  when  he  was  buried  in  the  old  church  of 
EaU,  in  the  parish  of  Crosserlough,  County  of  Cavaui 
''where,"  writes  Dr.  MacDermott,  ''still  remain  his  monu'* 
ment  and  many  others  commemorating  his  sept."  His  eldest 
son,  Connor  O'Beilly,  who  also  served  with  distinction  in  this 

*  See  full7  aCaUaghan's  Irish  Brigades,  vol.  1,  p.  275,  Ac.   t  Idem,  p.  273* 


752  KiKO  jaxbs'b  ibish  arht  list. 


war,  had  been  (nclnded  in  the  ArtideB  of  lamerick.* 
On  the  Attainders  of  1691  appear  Philip  (oge)  and  Hugh 
O^Beilly,  who  sat  for  the  Borough  of  Cavan  in  the  aforesaid 
Parliament;  Luke,  who  had  been  Sheriff  of  that  Conntjr  in 
1687;  and  twentjnrix  others  of  the  name.  It  is,  however, 
confidently  stated  that  there  are  above  20,000  persons  of  the 
name  yet  in  Cavan,  and  many  also  in  the  Counties  of  Meath, 
Longford,  and  Leitiim.  The  aforesaid  Hugh  O'fieilly  had 
been  a  Mast^  in  Chancery,  was  in  1689  made  Clerk  of  the 
Privy  Council,  and  subsequently  was  titular  Chancellor  for 
Ireland,  bA  he  would  have  been  the  actual>  had  James 
succeeded. 

In  the  subsequtat  Brigades  of  the  Continent,  in  France, 
Austria  and  Spain,  officers  of  this  great  Irish  sept  may  be 
traced,  distinguished  for  their  militaiy  services.  In  the  reign 
of  Charles  the  Third  in  Spain,  General  Count  Ale3cander 
O'Reilly  was  a  distinguished  officer,  and  appointed  to  com- 
mand the  army  of  the  Pyrenees  in  1794,  when  he  died.  He 
was  son  (says  Dr:  Mc  Dermott)  of  Captain  Thomas  O'Beilly 
of  Baltrasna;  by  Rosa,  daughter  of  Colonel  Luke  Mac  Dowell 
of  Mantua,  and  grandson  of  the  above-mentioned  Colond 
John  O'Reilly  of  Garryrobuck.  {le  had  married  Donna 
Rosas  Las  Casas,  by  whom  he  had  Don  Dominic  O'Reilly, 
who  died  a  Lieuteni^t-General  in  1796,  and  Don  Nicholas,  a 
Brigadier-General  in  1797.  Many  interesting  particulars 
concerning    Couiit    Alexander   are   noticed    in  SunnburrCs 

TVavels  in  Spain  and  other  histories  of  these  times. 

[Andrew  O^Reilly  of  BaUinlough  in  Westmeath,  bom  in 
1742,  died  at  Vienna  in  1832  a  'Veldt'  Marshal  and  Com- 
mander of  the  Military  Order  of  Maria  Theresa  in  Austria.] 

*  Burke^s  Landed  QtrUnyn  p.  970. 


o'reillt's  infantbt.  758 

Count  Honore-Charles-Michael^oseph  Beille,  a  distin- 
guished   General    of   Cavalry    in    the    French    service    in 
/  Buonaparte's  campaigns,  and  at  present  a  Peer  of  France,  is 
a  descendant  of  one  of  the  O'Keilljs  of  the  Irish  Brigades. 

For  many-  other  O'Reillys  distinguished  in  the  Austrian 
service,  see  O'Callaghan's  Brigades,  vol.  1,  p.  276,  &c.,  and 
yet  more,  the  Notes  and  Appendix  to  Dr.  O'Donovan's  edition 
of  TTie  Four  Masters, 


CAPTAIN  AND  LIEUTENANT  MAC  CABE. 

The  MacCabes  were  a  powerful  sept  of  Cavan  and  Monaghan, 
an  interesting  Genealogy  of  whom,  'extracted  from  the 
archives  of  James  the  Second  kept  at  Paris,'  was  forwarded 
to  the  compiler  of  the  present  work.  It  is  officially  certified 
by '  Jaques  Terry,  Athlone,  seul  Genealogiste,  Juge  de  Blazon, 
le  Grarde  Armorial  de  sa  Majesty  Jaques  Second,  Boi  de  la 
Grande  Britagne,'  and  drawn  up,  at  the  instance  of  Sieur 
Alexander  Mac  Cabe,  theretofore  a  Lieutenant  of  Horse  in 
the  Regiment  of  Chevalier  William  Wallace  for  the  expedition 
to  Scotland,  his  brevet  bearing  date  2l8t  April,  1692,  signed 
by  King  James,  and  countersigned  by  Lord  Melfort,  Secretary 
of  State. 

(Premising  that  this  family  supplied  in  old  time  the  here- 
ditary Constables  of  the  two  Brefneys,  Cavan  and  Leitrim,  as 
well  as  of  Fermanagh  and  Monaghan,  the  Four  Masters 
record  Malachy  Mac  Cabe,  Constable  of  the  Brefneys,  &c.,  as 
having  died  of  the  plague,  which  prevailed  in  1424 ;  and  that 
his  son  died  so  entitled  in  1455 ;  while  in  1460  the  Mac  Cabe 
expired  suddenly  at  Lissard,  in  the  County  of  Longford, 

VOL.  II.  3  c 


754  RING  JAMES'S  IBISH  ABMT  LIST. 

when  ''his  venuiins  were  attended  by  fourteen  score  Gsllo- 
glasses  with  their  battle-axes,  oonyeying  him  to  his  bniial 
place  in  Cayan.*')  ^' We  have  made,""  says  the  Herald^  "an 
exact  searoh  in  ike  memoriali  of  our  office^  for  the  genealogy 
and  armorials  of  said  Alexander,  and  we  have  foond  tliat 
himself  is  sojourqing  in  Vltez  in  Normandy ;  is  married  to 
Dame  Christine  Fleming,  daughter  of  Bichard  Fleming, 
Esq. ;  who  is  the  son  of  Christopher,  son  of  James  Fleming, 
Lord  Baron  of  Slane ;  that  said  Alexander  was  the  son  of 
Patricia,  the  son  of  Alexander,  son  of  Darius ;  which  Darius 
was  the  son  of  Edmund  MacCabe,  the  last  chief  of  the 
Mao  Cabes  who  enjoyed  the  fiunily  estates  in  Cavan,  and  his 
spouse  was  the  daughter  of  the  great  MacMahon  of  the 
County  of  Monaghan,  where  Edmund  possessed  many  lewd- 
ships  down  to  the  time  of  Elisabeth;  their  chief  house  being 
then  Moyne-'Hall;  from  which  have  shot  out  many  branches.'* 
The  document  then  certifies  the  armorials  to  be,  ''Vert,  a 
fesse  wayy,  between  three  salmons  naiant  ai^ent.  Crest,  a 
demi-griffin  acgreant  Motto,  *Aut  yincere  aut  mori,'  as 
borne  by  the  Mao  Cabes  for  many  previous  ages  in  Ireland; 
and  confirms  them  to  said  Alexander  and  his  lawful  posterity 
in  his  escutoheons  triumphal  as  well  as  funereal ;  dated  on  the 
9th  day  of  Fdi^nuiryf  in  the  first  year  of  the  reign  of  James 
the  Third,  at  the  castle  of  St.  Germains-en^Laye.  A  sub- 
sequent testimonial,  dated  at  Versailles,  25th  February,  1721, 
being  the  28th  year  of  the  reign'  of  our  moat  high^  most 
puissant,  most  serene  Prince  James  the  Third^  &a,  seeks  to 
Airther  verify  this  pedigree,  &c.  The  above  Alexander 
Mac  Cabe,  according  to  the  fiunily  tradition,  had  lived  in  the 
established  chief  seat  at  Moyne-Hall,  while  he  also  purchased 
the  Castle  of  Stradone,  with  sixteen  townlands  in  the  County 
of  Cavan,  from  John  Fisher,  a  CromweUian  officer,  for  £800. 


MAC  quibe's  ikfantbt.  755 


On  the  occasion  of  levying  the  poll  tax  in  1690  for 
James,  over  the  several  Counties  of  Ireland,  this  Alexander 
was  one  of  the  influential  gentry  appointed  to  assess  or  collect 
it  from  Monaghan,  vide  ante  p.  37.  He,  however,  forfeited 
all  his  estate  in  1691,  having  in  that  year  fought  at  the  head 
(^  his  clansmen  at  Aughrim.  Of  these  adherents,  they,  who 
survived  that  &tal  day,  served  at  Limerick,  and  such  as  out- 
lived its  capitulation  departed  to  France  with  Sarsfield,  never 
to  return.  A  Biyan  Mac  Cabe  was  also  attainted  in  1691, 
when  his  estates  in  Cavan  were  sold  to  Bobert  Johnson* 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY. 

COLONEL  CUCONAUGHT  MAO  GtJIBE. 

His  Regiment  is  not  filled  on  this  Army  List.  King's 
State  of  the  Protestants  gives,  from  a  subseq^uent  Muster 
Roll,  Alexander  Mac  Guire  as  its  Lieutenant-Colonel,  and 
Cornelius  Mac  Guire  its  Major.  Colonel  Cuconaught  was 
Sheriff  of  the  County  of  Fermanagh  in  1687;  he  was  killed 
at  the  battle  of  Aughrim,  where  his  Regiment,  after  fighting 
most  gallantly  and  successfrdly  till  towards  the  close  of  the 
action,  was  nearly  all  destroyed,  and  his  Lieutenant-Colonel 
talcen  prisoner.*     At  the  Court  of  Claims,  Mary  Mac  Guire, 

*  OCaUaghmC9  Macaaria  Exddkmi,  p.  312. 


756  KINO  JAMES'S  IBI8H  ABUT  LIST. 

Colonel  Cnconaaglit*8  widow,  waa  allowed  a  jointare  off 
Tempo  and  other  Fermanagh  lands ;  as  was  Bryan  Mac 
Guire  a  remainder  in  tail  therein.  Dominick  '  Magwexr,* 
*'  commonly  called  Primate  of  Ireland,*  was  then  also  attainted. 
A  letter  in  SUater^s  Public  Gazetteer  of  1760,  says  that  one 
of  the  Mac  Guire  Sept,  quitting  Ulster  on  the  troubles  of 
1641,  retired  to  the  parish  of  Mc  Elligott  near  Tralee,  and 
that  his  grandson  passed  thence  to  Vienna,  where  he  had  a 
kinsman,  through  whose  interest  he  procured  a  commission  for 
his  son  in  the  Imperial  Army,  That  son  '*  commanded  at 
Dresden,  and  was  in  1760  Colonel  of  a  Begiment  of  Four 
battalions,  a  Count  of  the  Holy  Boman  Empire,  and  a 
Lieutenant-General  of  their  Majesty's  Imperial  Armies.  It 
is  to  him  and  his  near  kinsman  and  countryman,  the  brave 
Migor-General  Baron  Mac  Elligott,  who  is  inde&tigably 
climbing  to  military  glory,  that  their  Imperial  Majesties  are 
indebted  for  forming  the  Croats,  Pandours,  and  other  irregular 
free-booters  into  as  regular  and  well  disciplined  troops  as  anj 
others  of  their  subjects,*'* 


BEGIMENTS  OF  INFANTBT. 

COLOKEL  WALTER  BOUBKE'S. 


Ct^ptami.  LimOenanit.  Eimgnt. 

Loke  SheilL  Peter  Daly. 

Robert  FitcG«nld.  Walter  D'Alton. 

Philip  Fox. 


♦  Stealer,  ire,  vol.  3,  p.  749. 


BOUR]LE*8  INTAKTBT.  757 


COLONEL  WALTER  BOURKE. 

But  even  this  scanty  muster  does  not  appear  upon  the 
present  Army  List*  To  Colonel  Walter,  however,  and  his 
Regiment  was  entrusted  the  custody  of  the  old  Castle  of 
Aughrim,  on  the  day  of  the  last  momentous  battle  there ;  and 
of  his  defence  of  this  important  post  Mr.  O'Callaghan  says, 
[*  The  fire,  that  might  have  been  directed  firom  the  Castle, 
would  have  commanded  the  sole  passage  at  that  side  by  which 
the  enemy's  cavalry  could  assail  the  Irish  position,  that 
passage  being  only  vride  enough  to  admit  the  advance  of 
horsemen,  in  some  parts  one  by  one,  in  no  part  more  than 
two  abreast,  with  difficulty  through  a  narrow  boggy  way, — 
and  this  at  within  thirty  yards  of  the  building.*  The  enemy 
by  their  own  account  were  unsuccessful  all  along  their  centre 
and  left,  when  their  cavalry  advanced  here,  on  their  right, 
under  what  were  apparently  hopeless  circumstances,  since  it 
is  evident  that  the  shooting  down  of  a  comparatively  small 
number  of  their  horse  in  such  a  defile,  by  a  due  discharge  of 
musketry  from  the  Castle,  would  render  that  defile  impassable 
for  the  remainder.  But  when  Colonel  Walter  Bourke,  on  the 
appearance  of  the  hostile  cavalry,  ordered  the  two  barrels  of 
lead  or  ball  which  he  had  at  the  Castle  to  be  opened,  he  found 
cannon  instead  of  musket  bullets  had  been  sent  to  him;  so 
that  the  Williamite  Horse  were  thus  enabled  to  get  beyond 
the  defile,  and  to  take  the  Irish  in  flank ;  to  which  '  untoward 
event '  and  to  St.  Ruth's  death  when  about  to  set  matters  to 
rights,  where  alone  there  was  any  occasion  to  do  so,  the  loss 
of  the  battle  was  attributable.  The  Colonel  nevertheless 
maintained  the  Castle  with  his  Regiment,  till  himself,  eleven 


758  KIKG  JAMES'S  IBIBH  ABMT  LIST. 

Other  officers,  and  forty  soldiers,  were  all  that  remamed  to 
surrender  as  prisoners.'] 

On  the  formation  of  the  Brigades  in  Fiance  this  Walter 
Bourke,  who  was  of  the  County  Mayo  Turlough  line,  was 
appointed  Colonel  of  what  was  styled  the  'Regiment  of 
Athlone/  of  which  Owen  Mac  Cartie  was  Lieutenant- 
Colonel,  and  Edmund  Cantwell,  Major.*  It  was  distin- 
guished  for  its  services  on  the  Continent,  as  before  spoken  of 
at  the  notices  of  the  Duke  of  Berwick  and  of  Lord  Galmoy. 
At  Cremona,  in  1703,  "  when  the  rest  of  th^  garrison  was 
sunk  in  licentiousness  and  revelry,  the  two  Begiments  of 
Bourke  and  Dillon,  stationed  near  the  Po  Grate,  alone 
observed  the  rigour  of  military  discipline,  or  were  alone  found 
regularly  under  arms  on  parade  or  at  the  post  assigned  to 
them.  They  had  not  been  corrupted  by  example,  nor 
debauched  by  the  luxuries  of  a  country  in  which  they  were 
perfect  strangers,  and  spoke  not  the  language."!  I^  the 
subsequent  conflicts  this  Regiment  suffered  severely,  especially 
in  those  on  the  Betorto  in  1705,  where  it  was  forced  to  yield 
to  the  giant  arms  and  mighty  strength  of  the  renowned 
Guards  of  William,  the  first  of  the  Prussian  monarchs. 
*'  Crossing  the  Pendino,  however,  they  rallied  behind  under'- 
wood  and  bushes  on  its  banks,  took  a  sure  and  deadly  aim  at 
these  Goliahs,  laid  hundreds  of  them  prostrate  on  the  groundi 
and  remained  secure,  from  the  inability  of  thdir  opponents  to 
return  their  fire,  thevr  cartouche  boxes  having  been  all  wet  in 
passing  the  Betorto.}  This  Walter  Bourke  died  a  Field 
Marshal  of  France  in  1715,§  ^Thereupon  his  Brigade  went 
into  the  Spanish  service,  and  thence  into  the  Neapolitan,  in 

♦  (yCmor^s  MiUL  Mem.^  p.  199,  f  Idem,  pp.  242-3. 

t  Idem,  pp.  306-.7.  §  (yCaJOagharCs  Macar.  Exdd,  p.  450. 


B0UBxs*8  iKYAimtr.  759 


which  latter  it  was  distiiigQiflhed  in  Sicily^  Africa,  and  Italy. 
Changing  its  name  to  that  of  '  the  King's  Hegiment/  it  was 
extended  into  four  battalions;  and  0*Conor,  in  his  Military 
Memoirs  (p.  380),  says  it  still  exists  at  Naples. 


M-^ 


CAPTAIN  LUKE  8HEIL. 

The  O'Sheills  wete  an  ancient  dan  of  the  Comity  of  Antrim, 
and  accordingly  an  officer  of  the  name,  Lieutenant  Patrick 
O'Sheale  stands  on  the  roll  of  Colonel  Cormuck  O'Neill's 
Infantry.  Another,  Luke  Sheill,  was  a  Lieutenant  in  Colonel 
Henry  DiQon's  Mayo  muster*  The  name  was  also  established 
in  Westmeath,  where,  in  1628^  died  Donat  O'Sheale,  leaving 
Bory  his  son  and  heir  then  aged  forty  and  married ;  while 
in  Down,  Patrick  and  Owney  O'Sheale  were  attainted  in 
1642,  as  landed  proprietors.  In  1668,  James  Sheile  had  a 
grant  of  a  small  allotment  in  Westmeath,  as  had  Bryan 
Sheile  of  358  other  acres  there  in  1670,  and  in  1684,  Turlogh 
Sheile  and,  Jean^  his  mother,  passed  patent  for  236  in  Gralway. 
The  Captain  here  under  consideration  was  of  Ballinderry, 
near  Mullingar,  by  which  description,  he,  William  Sheill,  and 
Denis  Sheill  were  attainted  in  1691.  There  were  also  then 
outlawed  Daniel  '  O'Sheal'  of  Creggan,  County  of  Antrim; 
Francis  O'Sheil  of  Boviddy,  County  of  Derry ;  Hugh  O'Sheil 
of  Drumgolan,  County  of  Down,  clerk;  and  Patrick  *  Sheile' 
of  Annabeg  in  the  County  of  Sligo,  one  of  these  was  an 
Ensign  in  Colonel  Cormuck  O'Neill^s  Infantry.  In  1695, 
Boger  Sheill,  the  eldest  son  of  the  above  William  of  Ballin- 
derry, petitioned  the  Irish  House  of  Commons,  stating  that  he 
was  a  Protestant  and  the  eldest  son  of  a  Papist,  and  praying 


760  KINO  JAM£8*8  1RI0H  ARMT  LIST. 

that  a  Committee  might  be  appointed  to  prepare  heads  of  a 
Bill  to  preTent  his  being  disinherited  by  his  said  fiither.  To 
this  petition  William  Sheill  replied,  setting  forth  ^^  that  he 
was  willing  without  an  Act  of  Parliament  to  settle  his  estates 
on  his  Protestant  sons  and  none  else,  and  that  he  had  no 
design  to  disinherit  his  eldest  son,  Roger  Sheill,  as  being  a 
Protestant,  though  he  be  less  dutiful  to  him  than  his  other 
sons ;  and  praymg  that  in  regard  his  real  estate  is  not  worth 
above  £10  per  annum,  and  that  the  allegations  of  his  son 
Boger  are  false,  that  the  House  would  examine  into  the  truth 
on  both  sides/'  A  Committee  was  accordingly  appointed  for 
the  purpose.  In  1747,  a  Captain  ^  Sheill'  was  lulled  at 
Lauffield  in  Dillon's  Regiment. 


REGIMENTS  OP  INFANTRY. 

COLONEL  F£LIX  oVeILL'S. 

Captaim*                            Lieutenanti*                         Enngm* 
HieColoneL  • 


Con  O'Neill,  

Lieutenant-ColoDeL 

Daniel  Gilmore.  Teretice  O'NeOL 


VSLIX  0*NEILL*S  INFANTBT.  761 


COLONEL  FELIX  O'NEILL. 

Colonel  Felix  O'Neill  was  the  son  of  Turlough  O'Neill, 
who  was  an  active  royalist  in  the  Civil  War,  while  King 
Charles  was  living.  He  then  betook  himself  to  the  bar,  and 
was  a  Master  in  Chancery  previously  to  1689,  when  he 
resigned  the  gown  for  the  sword.  His  re^ment  continued  on 
the  muster  rolls  of  the  Irish  Army  throughout  the  war.  The 
Colonel  was  himself  killed  at  Aughrim,*  when  an  interesting 
letter,  written  by  Kim  regarding  the  previous  capture  of 
Athlone,  was  found  upon  his  person  and  has  been  preserved. 
On  his  fall,  his  Regiment,  it  would  appear,  was  shaken  in  dis- 
cipline and  allegiance,  and  at  the  2l8t  November,  1691,  Story 
has  a  notice,!  which,  although  the  christian  name  assigned  to 
the  Colonel  differs  somewhat,  yet  clearly  refers  to  the  above 
J^giment.  ''  Near  this  time.  Colonel  Phelim  O'Neill^s 
Regiment,  being  encamped  in  the  County  of  Kerry  as  part 
of  the  Irish  designed  for  France,  came  over  to  our  side,  as 
several  others  did  daily  ;'^  and  again  the  same  writer  says, 
''  Rumours  of  the  ill  reception  of  the  first  troops  that  passed 
over  from  Ireland  to  France  having  been  circulated,  on  the 
Sth.  of  December,  Colonel  M^Dermott's,  and  Colonel  Brian 
O'Neill's,  and,  a  day  or  two  after.  Colonel  Felix  O'Neill's,  who 
were  part  of  the  Irish  forces  designed  for  France,  quitted  the 
design,  and  refused  to  go  on  board,  returning  to  Clare,  where 
some  of  them  delivered  up  their  arms  to  Colonel  Tiffin,  and 
went  homewards.^ 

♦  CCallagJianU  Green  Book^  p.  322. 
t  Story^s  Impart,  HisL^  pt.  U.,  p.  285.  %  Idem,  p.  291. 


763 


N  DANIEL  GILMOBE. 


The  wane  of  Gikooie,  in  an  Ulster  Bepmeni,  raggeste  the 
descent  of  this  Caqptain  Iran  the  old  sqit  of  line  GioDn 
Moire,  alias  0*Moooa,  lAo  originally  pmwnird  (writes  Dr. 
CXDonoran)  the  Banmies  of  Lecale  and  Caatlereagli,  and  part 
of  Einelartj^  in  the  County  of  Down;  but, after  the  Kngfiah 
inTaoon,  their  territory  was  modi  circinnscribed  by  the 
encroadunents  of  the  Whites  and  Savages,  and  aficrwaids 
of  the  0*Ndlls  of  Cknaboy  and  Mac  Artanes.  It  woohl 
appear  from  the  Ang^Irish  Annals,  that  the  Mac  Gihnoriea 
or  Gilmors  were  stout  opposers  of  the  English  in  their  old 
territory^  to  the  eonunenoement  of  the  fifteenth  oentory.  The 
Cknaboy  O'Neill  gave  to  them  the  lands  of  Hollywood,  and 
the  parish  of  Dmidonald  appears  to  have  been  likewise  theiia. 
Harris  writes  that  they  were  '  a  natiye  sept  in  Down,  a  strong 
sort  of  people,*  and  always  followers  to  the  ONeills  of 
Clanaboy/ 

While  sndi  appears  to  have  been  the  source  of  Captain 
Daniel*s  lineage,  it  is  to  be  remarked  that  the  surname  had  a 
striking  affinity  in  the  Danish  parlance,  and  in  members  of  that 
race<  At  the  time  of  the  English  Inyauon,  a  fiunily  of  Mac 
Gillemory  was  settled  in  Waterford,  to  whom^  styling  them 
Ostmen  or  Danes,  Henry  the  Second,  when  he  stormed  that 
city,  gave  charters  of  denization,  which  his  son  John  and  hia 
successor,  Edward  the  First,  confirmed.  Conformably  there- 
with, the  Four  Masters  allege  that  on  the  occasion  of  the  siege 
of  that  little  city,  '  Gillemaire'  was  Governor  of  the  remarkable 

*  Hittory  of  the  Couniy  of  Dawn^  p.  45. 


W^JAX  O'NSILL'S  tSTAWTRY.  763 

round  citadel  which  still  BuryiveB  there, — ^Reginald's  Tower. 
A  short  time  previous,  1159,  Gillamuire  died  an  anchorite  of 
Armagh.  In  1244,  when  Hemy  the  Third  summoned  the 
'Fideles*  of  Ireland  to  assist  him  in  his  war  against  Scotland, 
Mac  Gillemurri  received  an  especial  Royal  Mandate.  In  1276 
died  Dermott  Mac  Gillemuire,  Lord  of  Lecale  (in  the  County 
of  Down).  In  1318  Roger  Mac  Gillimurry  sued  out  a  patent 
of  pardon ;  and  in  1408,  says  Ware  in  his  AnnaU  of  Ireland^ 
'  Hugh  Mac  Gilmore  was  slain  at  Carrickfergus,  within  the 
Church  of  the  Friars  Minors,  which  church  he  had  before 
destroyed  and  broke  down  the  windows,  through  which  his 
enemies,  the  Savages,  had  entered  upon  him.  At  the  disso- 
lution of  the  monasteries,  James  '  Mao  Guilmere'  was  Abbot 
of  Moville  in  the  Ardes  (County  of  Down),  and  so  seised  of 
various  lands,  tithes,  chief  rents,  and  advowsons,  as  found  by 
Inquisition,  temp.  James  the  First)  in  whose  reign  the 
memorable  Plantation  of  Ulster  occurring,  this  theretofore 
territorial  family  was  fain  to  glean  some  possession,  through 
under-leases  from  the  new  settlers.  At  the  Supreme 
Council  of  Kilkenny  in  1646,  Charles  Gilmore  was  one  of  the 
Confederates;  and,  whilst  Charles  the  Second  was  'beyond 
the  seas,'  one  of  his  faithful  adherents  was  Owen  '  Gilmer,* 
who  is  therefore  especially  thanked  in  the  Act  of  Settlement. 
The  Attainders  of  1691  describe  the  above  Daniel  Gilmor  as 
of  Bodare,  County  of  Antrim,  with  an  Owen  Gilmor  of  the 
same  locality.  Another  of  this  surname  was  a  Captain  in 
Colonel  Cormuck  O'Neill's  In&nt]74 


-    ^m  .«. 


764  KING  jaxbs'b  ibish  abmt  list. 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTRY- 


COLONEL  HUGH  MAC  MAHON^S. 


TlieColoneL  


LientenADt-Golcaiel. 

[Christopher  Plankettt         * *- 

Major.] 

Owen  Mac  Mahon.  James  M^Gfllalkin. 

This  Regiment  is  thus  deficient  in  the  present  Army  List. 
The  name  of  the  Major  is  supplied  from  the  appendix  to 
King's  State  of  the  Protestants^  ftom  which  authority  also  it 
appears  that  Major  Owen  Mac  Mahon,  the  Captain  here,  was, 
in  1690,  the  Lieutenant-Colonel.  See  of  this  family  ante^  at 
Colonel  Art  Mac  Mahon. 


REGIMENTS  OP  INFANTRY. 
Colonel  denis  mac  gillicubdt's. 

TheColoneL 


lieatenanl-ColoiieL 


M^jor. 
John  Butler. 


MAC  OUXICimOT'S  INFANTRT.  765 


COLONEL  DENIS  MAC  GILLICUDDY. 

"  The  name  of  Mac  GilUcuddy,"  writes  the  Reverend  Mr. 
Rowan,  "  is  distinct  from  that  of  Mc  EUigot.  It  was  in  fact 
originally  the  distinctive  title  of  the  head  of  an  offshoot  of  the 
O^SuUivans,  which  after  the  wars  of  1641  was  more  generally 
assumed  by  the  members  of  that  branch.^  In  accordance  with 
this  construction,  when  Eang  James  the  First,  in  1605,  made 
a  grant  to  Theobald  Bourk  of  Castleconnell,  of  certain  lands 
in  the  County  of  Kerry,  they  were  described  as  *  parcel  of  the 
estate  of  Denis  Mac  Dermott  O'SuUivan,  otherwise  'Mac 
Gillicuddie,' '  dead  in  rebellion/  It  appears  firom  a  Book  of 
Obits  in  Trinity  CoUege,  Dublin,  MSS.  (F.  iii.  27)  that  in 
the  year  1630  Connor  Mac  Gillicuddy,  of  Castlecarrick, 
County  of  Kerry,  was  shipwrecked  and  drowned ;  that  he  had 
married  Joan,  daughter  of  John  Cosby,  Bishop  of  Ardfert, 
by  whom  he  had  issue  Donogh,  Daniel,  Connor,  Catherine, 
and  Ellen ;  that  he  married  a  second  wife,  Sheelah,  daughter 
of  Daniel  Oge  Cartie  of  Dingle,  in  that  county,  by  whom  he 
had  one  son,  Neal;  and  it  would  seem  that  the  Donogh, 
named  in  the  foregoing  pedigree  as  the  eldest  son  of  Connor 
Mac  Gillicuddy  by  Joan  Cosby,  was  the  Colonel  called 
'  Denis*  on  this  list.  As  Sheriff  of  Kerry  in  1687,  he  is 
named  Donogh  Mc  Gillicuddy,  and  by  that  appellation  was 
adjudged  entitled  to  the  benefit  of  the  articles  of  Limerick. 
In  Lord  Kenmare's  Regiment  of  Infantry,  < Mac  Gilli- 
cuddy was  a  Lieutenant,  and  another  of  the  name  an  Ensign. 


766  kutg  jambs's  ibish  asmy  ust. 


REGIMENTS   OP   INFANTRY. 

COLONEL  JAKSS  ?XJBCXLL'8. 
Hie  Golood.  -r 


Tiirotmitnt-OotoiiL 


Denis  Kelly. 


Nothing  has  been  ascertained  of  this  Colonel^  ezoept  that 
he  is  mentioned  with  the  rank  of  Colonel,  among  the  noblemen 
and  gentlemen  who  landed  firom  the  Continent  in  the  Spring 
of  1689,  to  support  the  cause  of  King  James, 


LOBD  HUNSDON'8  ihfaktbt.  767 


REGIMENTS  OF  INFANTBY. 
LOBD  mnrgooN's 

This  Begiment  is  wholly  unfilled  oa  the  Army  List.  The 
names  of  Ingram,  Giflbrd,  and  Gyles  are  given  on  the 
authority  of  a  subsequent  Muster  Boll,  noted  in  King' 9  State 
of  the  ProteitanUj  (Appendix).  This  Lord,  Sir  Bobert  Carey, 
was  one  of  the  officers  who,  early  in  1689,  came  over  from 
France  to  Ireland  to  serve  S^ng  James ;  and  the  Begiment 
here  styled  by  his  name,  is  not  to  be  found  on  the  muster 
rolls  later  than  1690^  He  became  the  sixth  Baron  Hunsdon 
on  the  death  of  John  Carey,  the  fifth  Lord,  without  issue; 
the  latter  had  also  enjoyed  the  titles  of  Viscount  Bochfort 
and  Earl  of  Dover,  but  these  died  with  him. 

It  appears  from  an  entry  in  the  Archives  of  Bruges, 
preserved  there  in  the  Hotel  de  Yille,  that  a  Darby  *  Morphy* 
was,  in  December,  1689,  appointed  by  £ing  James  a  *  Captain- 
Lieutenant'  in  Lord  Hunsdon's  Infantry.  Of  the  old  and 
respectable  fiunily  of  Murphy,  see  ante.  p»  76,  &c. 


'm*0»  m— 


mm 


768 


KOTO  JAME8*8  XBI8H  ABMT  U8T. 


BEGMENTS  OF  INFANTBY. 


COLONEL  BICHABD  SUTLER  8. 


TheColoneL 

Bvtkr, 

Uenlouuil-Gokpiid* 

Archer. 

^—-  BoUer,  Moior. 

FiuHuiy. 

KeUjr, 

Batkr. 

—  Butler,  junior. 
— .LincoliL 


FiteCknOd. 


Cmmy.                       — 

—  Butler. 

Butler.                         ^ 

—  Fegia. 

—  FiUGetali 

.. Sutton.                        — 

—  Bognet. 

^— *RyaB.                          — 

—  SuiTont. 

, Boch.                          ^ 

—  Kern. 

KeDjr.                          — 

^Kel^y. 

Ifandevflle.                 ^ 

Vam^Ia 

Bonlger.                      — 

—  Walih. 

*CokeIy.»                      _ 

■^Jordan. 

TiizGen}^                — 

—  Lsngton. 

BiKV. Moiphy,  (^4igMm, 

^—^  Kelly,  Aoyson. 

As  on  this  and  the  ensuing  Infantry  B^giment  of  Lord  Clare, 
no  Christian  names  appear  to  identify  the  officers,  no  illostnir 
tions  may  be  attempted,  and  the  surnames  have  been  nearly  all 
hereinbefore  noticed. 


LOBD  CLABS  8  IKFAKTBT^ 


769 


BEGIMENTS  OF  INFANTBY, 


LORD  Clare's. 


Lord  Clare, 
ColoneL 

Arthur, 

lieutenant-Colonel. 

Hangny, 

Major. 

Rowe« 

Callaghan. 

Boclie. 

Ryan, 

—  Lacy. 

O'Brien, 

-*— Barry. 

— —  HaiToId. 

— —  Rawleigh, 

Carol 


-Connard, 
•  Bulk. 


—  O'Brien. 

—  CaUaghan 
_  CaUaff|ian. 

—  Ryan. 
-Lacy. 

—  Bgan. 

—  Lane. 

—  Greagb. 

—  Samon, 

—  Ryan. 

Kennedy,  C^kaplam. 


-Fits  Gerald, 
-Bnik. 


Maneileld. 

Bonrk. 

Stiitohe, 

Tnbbes. 

Lacy. 


Bonrk. 
Harrold. 
Rawleigh, 
Macntmee. 


TOL.   11, 


3  D 


'm,-J  ^mmfmammi 


770  KING  JAMXS'S  IRUH  ABMT  LIST. 


INDEPENDENT  COMPANIES  AND  TEOOPS. 

After  the  aforesaid  enumeration  of  the  Colonels  of  Begi* 
ments  in  this  Army  List,  the  Officers  are  named,  who  were 
designed  to  command  smaller  bodies  of  Infantry  and  Cavahry. 
These  were:  1st,  Colonel  Garret  Moore;  2ad,  Captain  Patrick 
Bourke;  3rd,  Captain  Michael  Bourke;  4th,  Captain  Michael 
Cormaek;  5tb,  Captain  Henry  O'Neill,  the  grandson  of  Sir 
Phelim  of  1641 ;  6th,  Colonel  Hugh  Mac  Mahon  (Troop  of 
Dragoons) ;  7th,  Colonel  Frande  Toole  (Independent  Company 
of  Fusileers);  8th,  Provost  Marshal;  9th,  Charles  White  of 
Leixlip;  10th,  Colonel  Richard  Butler;  11th  and  Idth, 
Colonels  James  and  Robert  Fielding.^  All  these  surnames 
have  been  herei4-before  noted,  except  the  fourth, 


CAPTAIN  MICHAEL  COBMICK. 

In  reference  to  whose  family  it  xoay  be  said,  that  the  Mac 
Cormicks  constituted  a  sept  of  Annaly,  County  of  Longford, 
and  were  also  located  in  Fermanagh ;  while  the  O'Cormicks 
were  chiefs  of  Down.  They  branched  at  an  early  period  into 
Mayo,  whenoe  William  Cormiek  passed  down  to  Munster  to 
the  war  of  1599,  and  he  was  one  of  those  who  sailed  for 
Spain  with  Don  Juan  de  Aguilii.  In  1607,  John  King,  of 
the  City  of  Dublin,  granted  to  Michael  Cormiek  of  Innis- 
moyne.  County  of  Mayo,  various  lands  there,  which  had  been 

*  This  Colonel  Robert  Fielding  retained  to  England,  to  become  a  tyrant 
and  a  duped  bigamist.    See  the  State  TriaLi. 


DISOOHTINUSD  RB«iliSNT8.  77t 

the  estates  of  proprietors  recently  attainted.  The  above 
Captam  Michael  was  of  the  Mayo  faniily,  and  was  probably 
his  grandsoa,  as  he  is  desoribed  in  the  Inquisition  for  his 
outlawry,  <of  Buppagh  in  that  oounty/  where  John  Connick, 
of  Tobber  and  Ballinrobe,  was  also  attainted.  Captain 
Michael  was  however  saved  harmless  by  the  Articles  of 
Capitulation  for  the  island  of  Boffin,  made,  in  August,  1691, 
between  its  Jacobite  Colonel,  Timothy  *Sayrdaa,*  and  the 
Williamite  Grovemor  of  Oalway,  Brigadier  Sir  Henry 
Bellasyse.    This  name  is  still  respectable  in  Mayo. 


DISCONTINUED  REGIMENTS, 

Additional  Regiments  are  ^ven  on  some  authority,  but 
they  appear  to  have  been  early  disbanded,  or  drafted  into 
others,  viz.^  those  of  Lord  Castleconnel^  the  aforesaid  Colonel 
Roger  O  Conor  of  Corrasduna,  Sir  Charles  Geoghegan^  Colonel 
Manue  O'Donnely  Colonels  James  Roth^  Roger  G'Cahane^ 
Christopher  Kelly y  Bryan  MeDermotty  James  Talbot^  Ulick 
Bourke^  Sir  Edmund  Scott^  Myles  Kelly ^  John  Browne^  James 
Butler,  and  Edward  Nugent  Of  these  it  is  only  necessary 
here  briefly  to  notice  that  of 

COLONEL  BRYAN  McDERMOTT. 

Of  his  ancient  and  historic  Irish  sept  very  full  notes  are  given 
ante  p.  273,  and  in  the  Annals  of  Boyle^  vol.  1,  p.  138,  &c. 
That  this  Bryan  had  the  command  of  a  Regiment  in  1689 


•  J, 


in 


Imi  bccB  seen  bj  tw  com^kr,  poipoitniig  to  be  an  ippomt* 
mMi  ftem  Bjog  Jmms  hoMcif;  of  Flni  Dftvk  to  'tfae 
Cflpteinef  of  ft  CompHij  ia  dio  lU'giif  lit  of  Colond  Brjraa 
McDmnott:*  it  it  dotad  ot  DoUni  OMtle.  21it  An^oBt, 
1689,  oad  i«  eomiten^Bod,  Bidbnd  N^e.  In  tbe  Inqiii^ 
tioB  ibr  tlie  ottoindpr  of  tfai§  oflfeer,  he  i«  li— rrihfd  as  of 
KSromiif  Cuuiilj  of  Koeeoiiimoa^  md  henoe  ftppean  to  Iiftve 
been  of  die  ito^  of  lie  Denrfott  Boe.  Thow  of  bb  Bigi- 
meot  who  eurvived  tbe  CMiwhiei  of  lUt  w  vere.  Eke  tbe 
otber  Jftoobite  coipti  ditboded  sfter  die  Cftpitnbitioii  of 


APPENDIX. 


NOTES  OF  F&BNCH  AND  OTHSB  OtTIOSBS  OF  EAMK,  toAo 

were  distinffuished  m  iTtnjif  Jameses  aertfice  in  this  War^  but 
not  enroUid  with  the  RegimenU  of  the  foregwng  Asmt  List* 


FllENCH  OFFICERS. 

DE  ROSEN. 

This  gallant  iiidividual,  with  Field  Marshal  de  Maulnont  as 
his  Lieutenant-General,  and  Messieurs  Pusignan  and  de  Lery, 
Brigadiers,  aooompanied  Eling  James  in  the  paasage  from 
Brest  to  Eonsale.  Early  in  the  war  these  officers,  with 
the  exception  of  Pusignan,  triumphantly  crossed  the  river  at 
the  pass  of^  Lifford,  with  only  two  troops  of  Horsey  one  of 
Dragoons,  and  eighty  of  Ejiig  James's  Infantry  Guards,  in 
ftont  of  an  entrenched  enemy  ten  times  their  number;  who 
fled  at  the  first  discharge,  as  Mr.  O'Callaghan  writes,*  and 
were  pursued  with  fatal  execution  for  three  or  four  miles. 
De  Bosen  was  afterwards  engaged  with  Lieutenant-General 
Hamilton  at  the  siege  of  Derry.  [Writing  to  Eling  James, 
in  June  1689,  respecting  the  reduction  of  that  place,  this 

*  Grttxi  Bofiky  p.  260. 


774  APPENDIX. 

Mareschal-General  attributes  its  being  able  to  hold  oUt  to  the 
misplaced  lenity  shown  by  that  monarch  towards  the  insur- 
gents. 'You  would  have  been  master  of  the  town  long  ago, 
if  my  advice  had  been  followed,  which  was,  not  to  grant  pro- 
teetions  nor  receive  any  persons  coming  from  them;  by  which 
means  they  u>ould  the  sooner  consume  their  provisions^  and  be 
obliged  to  surrender  themselves  toith  the  halter  about  their  neeks.^ 
De  Rosen  here  aUuding  to  Kiag  James  having,  on  his  coming 
before  Derry  in  April,  1689,  pennitted  so  many  as  10,000 
out  of  30,000  persons  to  leave  it ;  whereas  if  all  had  been 
rigorously  shut  up  there  (concludes  our  authority),  it  is 
evident  that  the  pkce  must  have  been  starved  into  a  sub* 
mission  long  before  the  appearance  of  any  succour  firom 
England.] 

This  officer  was  superseded  in  1690  by  the  Comte  de 
Lauzun,  and  left  Ireland  in  the  French  fleet,  which  brought 
over  that  officer  with  the  contingent  of  Loui^  the  XIV.'s 
troops  that  he  commanded.  In  some  years  after  his  return  to 
France  (1703),  he  was  made  a  Marshal  of  France,  but,  not 
being  placed  at  the  head  of  an  army,  he  retired  to  his  estate 
in  Alsace,  where  he  died  in  1714,  at  the  advanced  age  of 
eighty-seven.* 


DE  LAUZUN. 

He  was  early  in  life  the  £ivourite  of  Louis  the  Fourteenth, 
and  the  accepted  lover  of  that  monarch's  cousin,  the  Princess 
de  Montpenaier,  whose  hand  he  had  "  the  effix>ntery  to  seek 
from  the  King,  and  to  request  that  their  marriage  should  take 

*  (TCaUagkan^s  Mac  Exdd.,  p.  836. 


DS  LAUXUV.  775 

pkce  with  Bojal  magnificence.'*  The  King  indignantly 
reAiaed,  but  afWw)ardB,  '' despite  this  impertinence,  offered 
to  forget  the  past,  and  to  make  him  Duke,  Marshal  of  France 
and  Goremor  of  Proyence,  provided  he  would  give  up  his 
pretensions  to  the  lady.  Tins  De  Lauzun  declined  in  a 
manner  so  provoking,  that  the  King  cast  him  into  prison 
in  the  Castle  of  Pignerol,  where  he  remained  some  years; 
until  the  Princess,  who  had  already  married  him,  bribed  the 
Duke  of  Mayence  with  the  Principality  of  Dombes  to  obtain 
his  release.'*  He  made  his  escape  to  England,  and  there  it 
was  that,  on  the  eve  of  the  abdication.  King  James  confided 
to  his  care  the  Queen  and  Prince  of  Wales,  when  their 
removal  to  France  was  resolved  upon.  It  was  considered, 
and  not  unwisely,  that  ^'  under  the  notion  of  the  Count  de 
Lauzun  returning  to  his  own  country,  a  yacht  might  be 
piepared  for  him^  and  the  Queen  and  Prince  pass  unsuspected 
in  his  company."* 

He  it  was  whom  aflerwards  Louis  the  Fourteenth  appointed 
to  the  command  of  the  veterans  (6,000  men)  who  were  sent 
over  ftom  France,  in  exchange  for  those  young  Irish  BoldietB 
of  the  same  number,  coming  thither  under  Lord  Moimtcashel 
In  the  sunmier  of  1689  De  Lauzun  was  appointed  to  super- 
sede Bosen,  and  with  this  force  he  arrived  in  Ireknd  some 
months  before  the  landing  of  King  William.  Immediately 
on  his  landing  he  came  to  Dublin,  with  his  forces  well  armed 
and  clothed;  and  early  issued  an  order,  which  has  been 
preserved  in  the  Southwell  Manuscripts^  whereby  he,  as 
Commander-in-Chief  of  the  French  forces,  '*  forbad  their 
taking  anything  but  what  they  paid  for,  and  also  prohibited 
their  molesting  Protestant  assemblies/' 

*  Oarke^i  Life  of  James  IL^  voL  2,  p.  244. 


776  APPENDIX. 

He  it  was  who,  after  the  defeat  at  the  Boyne,  adyised  King 
James  ''to  take  his  own  Begiment  of  Hone  and  some 
Dragoons,  and  make  the  best  of  his  way  to  Dublin;  for  fear 
the  enemy,  who  was  so  strong  in  Horse  and  Dragoons,  should 
make  detachments  and  get  thither  before  him,  which  he  was 
confident  they  would  endeavour  to  do :  but  that,  if  his  Majesty 
arriyed  there  first,  he  mighty  with  the  troops  he  had  with  him 
and  the  garrison  he  found  there^  prevent  their  possessing 
themselves  of  the  town,  till  Monsieur  Lauzun  himself  could 
make  the  retreat,  which  he  prayed  him  to  leave  to  his  conduct^ 
and  advised  him  not  to  remain  at  Xhiblin  either,  but  to  go 
with  all  expedition  for  France/'  On  the  King's  departure, 
De  Lauzun  joined  Tyrconnel  in  ''  assembling  the  greatest 
part  of  the  army :  and  retired  towards  Limerick,  still 
struggling  with  ill  fortune  and  universal  wants."*  On  his 
inspection  of  Limerick  and  its  fortifications,  he  is  said,  in 
Colonel  O'Kelly's  narrative,  to  have  declared  it  imtenable,  and 
under  that  impression  he  withdrew  his  forces  from  the  place, 
taking  with  him  a  great  quantity  of  ammunition,  and  not 
returning  it  until  after  tiie  termination  of  the  siege.  "  The 
Irish,''  says  the  Colonel,  *'  had  good  reason  to  be  dissatisfied 
witii  the  proceedings  of  him  and  his  French  troops ;  for,  in 
lieu  of  assistance  and  encouragement,  they  daily  disheartened 
tiie  people;  and  the  irregularities  they  committed  in  tiieir 
march  and  quarters  were  so  exorbitant,  that  it  must  needs 
alienate  from  them  the  hearts  of  the  Irish."  f  After  King 
William  abandoned  his  siege  of  Limerick,  De  Lauzun  accom- 
panied Tyrconnel  to  France,  where  it  is  said  King  Louis 
would  have  put  him  in  prison,  but  for  the  intercession  of 
James  the  Second  and  his  Queen.     After  the  death  of  his 

^  Chrke'8  James  11.^  vol  2,  p.  414.       f  OfCaUagharCs  Exdd.  Afac^  p.  65, 


THE   MABQUESS  DS   PUSI0NAN.  777 

wife,  the  Princess,  he  married  the  daughter  of  Marshal  de 
Lorges,  by  whom  he  had  no  issue.  '^  The  King  of  England/' 
adds  the  Duke  of  Berwick,  in  his  Memoirs  (p.  81,  &c.), 
^'  conferred  upon  him  the  Order  of  the  Garter*** 

O'Conor,  in  his  Military  Memoirsy  describes  him  as  a 
Gascon  by  birth  and  disposition,  '*  devoid  of  military  talents, 
who  had  pushed  himself  into  favour  at  Vetsailles  by  tact  and 
address,  till,  no  more  than  a  minion  of  Louis  the  Fourteenth, 
he  had  such  credit  at  Court,  that  he  was  able  to  treat  the 
ministers  and  mistresses  With  the  utmost  hauteur.  Aspiring 
to  marry  the  King^s  niece,  he  fell  into  disgrace  and  was 
confined  for  years ;  but,  having  afterwards  regained  the 
King's  favour,  he  was  sent  to  colnmand  in  Ireland,  Where  he 
showed  neither  resolution  nor  capacity,***  [except  in  the  share 
which  he,  at  the  head  of  his  French  Infantry,  had  vrith  the 
Irish  cavalry  in  conducting  the  good  retreat  from  the  Boyne 
to  Dublin.] 


-"  • 


THE  MAtlQUESS  DE  PUSIGKAN. 

When  (as  before  mentioned,  antey  p.  23)  King  James,  on  his 
arrival  in  Dublin,  24th  March,  1689,  ordered  Berwick  north- 
ward to  the-Ban^  to  strengthen  General  Richard  Hamilton, 
he  directed  Pusignan,  with  a  select  body  of  Irish  Cavaby  and 
Infantry  and  two  light  field  pieces,  to  advance  in  the  same 
direction  by  Charlemont  and  Dungannon,  along  the  west  of 
Lough  Neagh  and  the  Ban ;  and,  by  sweeping  away  all 
intervening  opposition,  to  open  a  communication  through 
Portglenone   Bridge    with    Hamilton    and   Berwick ;    who. 


*  C^ Conor's  MiUL  Mem,^  p.  106^ 


778  APPfiNDIX. 

fiiYouied  by  this  moyement,  were  to  respond  by  attemptmg 
to  cross  the  river  at  that  point.  By  this  plan,  if  suooessful, 
the  enemy  should  abandon  Colendne  to  Hamilton  and  Ber* 
wick,  to  ayoid  being  out  off  from  Deny  through  Pusignan's 
advance  towards  that  town,  after  contributing  to  Hamilton's 
and  Berwick's  success  at  Portglenone.  Early  in  April, 
Pusignan  cleared  with  rapid  slaughter  Moneymore,  Maghen^ 
felt,  Dawson's  Bridge,  Balloghy,  New  Ferry,  and,  in  short, 
all  the  passes  on  the  left  of  the  Ban  leading  to  Coleraine,  as 
fiur  as  Portglenone.  There,  though  the  bridge  had  been  burnt 
and  the  pass  guarded  by  the  redoubt,  the  river  had  in  the 
mean  time  been  crossed  by  the  Irish  oflSicers  and  Hx&r  troops, 
in  the  fiuse  of  the  enemy.*  [The  Marquess  was  mortally 
wounded  at  Deny  in  April,  1689,  on  the  same  day  in  which 
his  countryman,  De  Maumont,  was  killed;  both  falling  in  a 
most  gaUant  repulse  of  very  superior  numbers,  and  both  as 
much  lamented  for  private  worth  as  for  professional  ability.] 


MONSIEUR  DE  MAUMONT. 

Of  this  gaUant  officer^  le  Comte  D'Avaux  wrote  on  the 
6th  May,  1689,  to  Monsieur  de  Louvoisi  then  the  French 
Minister  of  Wars — '  The  King  of  England,  on  his  departure 
from  Deny,  left  Monsieur  de  Maumont  Commander-in-Chief, 
with  orders  on  his  departure  to  advance  with  300  or  400  men 
to  take  the  Castle  of  Culmore,  within  three  leagues  of  Deny. 
M.  de  Maumont,  who  saw  himself  separated  six  great  miles 
from  the  main  body  of  the  anny,  sent  to  seek  a  reinforcement 
of  200  men.       These  troops,  coming  by  a  height,  were 

*  (yCaOaghan's  Gr$en  Booky  p.  260. 


CHEVALIBB  DB   TE88£.  779 

distinctlj  seen  from  the  towiii  80  that  the  citixeDS  made  a 
iallj  of  500  foot  and  300  horse,  to  cut  off  this  R^pment. 
M.  de  Maumoot,  when  he  peroeived  this,  mounted  on  horse- 
hack  with  the  other  general  officers  at  the  head  of  forty 
Cavaliers  and  sixty  Dragoons,  for  all  the  test  were  gone  for 
forage.  The  Cavalry  marched  to  the  right  of  Mondeur  de 
Maumont  on  the  border  of  the  sea,  but  a  party  of  InfSmtry 
had  thrown  themselves  behind  the  hedges,  so  that^  at  the 
first  discharge,  M.  de  Maumont  was  killed,  as  was  one  of  his 
aid-de-camps  and  a  brother  of  Lord  Carlingford,  with  seven 
Cavaliers.'* 


DE  POINTEE* 

Th£  great  Engineer  on  the  Irish  side  was  also  Wounded  at 

Derry,  and  soon  after  died. Captain  Ren^  de  Cam^  and 

Lieutenant  Ren^  de  Cam^  are  alluded  to  ante^  p.  146,  while 
amongst  the  French  *  Officiers  a  la  Suitte  *  may  be  seen  many 
of  that  nation. 


CHEVALIER  DE  TESS^. 

Hs  came  over  to  Ireland  vrith  Monsieur  D'Usson  early  in 
May,  1691,  in  the  equipment  of  St  Ruth,  who  gave  him 
command  of  the  right  wing  of  his  Horse  at  the  battle  of 
Aughrim.  [By  this  vring  the  Williamite  left,  under  Ginkell, 
was  repeatedly  repulsed,  and  then  brought  to  a  stand ;  until, 
from  the  result  of  events  elsewhere,  (see  ante  at  Colonel 
Walter  Bourke's  Regiment),  the  Dutch  General  was  at  last 

*  Negotiations^  p.  117. 


780  AFPENDIX. 

enabled  to  advance  and  cany  the  day.]  De  Teea^  and 
DTJsson  were  afterwaida  partaes  to  the  military  artidefl  of 
Limerick,  which  the  former  agned,  as  one  of  the  Commandera* 
in-Chief  of  the  Iriah  army.  In  1703  a  Marquess  de  Tess^ 
was  engaged  against  Prince  Eugene  in  the  campaign  of 
Piedmont;*  while  M.  le  Chevalier  de  Tess^  ranked  as  a 
Brigadier  and  Fiehi-Maiahal  in  France^  undef  brevet  of  7th 
March,  1704. 


ilONSIEUR  D'USSON. 

[At  Athlone  this  Monneor  D'Usson  was  appointed  to  act  as 
governor,  but,  while  taking  i^fineshment  at  some  distance  from 
the  town,  the  sudden  Williamite  assault  occurred,  by  which 
the  place  was  surprised ;  for  which  negligence  St.  Ruth,  if  he 
had  livedo  would  have  had  him  tried,  but  imder  existing 
circumstances  he  only  removed  him  to  Gralway,  where  he 
remained,  until  its  capitulation  on  St.  Ruth*s  death.]  After 
the  fatal  day  of  Aughrim,  D'Usson  **  had  much  ado  to  keep 
the  rapporeeS)  that  came  thence,  from  mutinying,  until  he 
promised  them  that  if  a  supply  of  money,  ammunitioui  and 
provisions  came  not  from  France  in  twelve  days,  he  would 
dismiss  them.'^t  In  the  mean  time,  according  to  King 
James's  Memoir,^  he  and  the  other  French  officers  generously 
declared  that  what  money  they  had  of  tiieir  own,  amounting 
to  50,000  livres,  should  be  distributed  amongst  the  soldiers. 
On  the  26th  of  July,  D^Usson,  being  Lieutenant-General  in 
Galway,  surrendered  the  town  to  the  besiegers,  the  garrison 

*  (/Qmnor's  MOiL  Mem.,  p.  S40. 
t  Diary  in  Harleian  MitCj  t.  7,  p*  484.    %  darkens  James  11^  y.  2,  p.  462. 


8T,  BUTH.  781 

marohing  thereout  and  the  English  entering.  D^Usaon  him- 
self  came  to  the  English  camp,  and,  **  after  staying  there 
about  half  an  hour  (writes  Story),  he  hiul  a  guard  thence  for 
his  person  to  conduct  him  towards  Limerick."  At  the  last 
siege  of  that  place,  on  Tyrconners  death,  he  assumed  the 
command,  and  it  is  attributed  to  his  hasty  order,  that  the 
Mayor  closed  the  gates  against  the  gallant  Coloi^el  Lacy, 
whereby  that  officer  and  his  foUo'v^ers  i^ere  cut  down,  as 
before  related.  O'Conor,  ifho  in  his  Military  Mertwirs 
(p.  167),  makes  this  charge  against  D^Usson,  roundly  attri- 
butes to  his  mistakes  (which,  howeyer,  he  admits  were  more 
the  results  of  indolence  than  of  wwt  of  spirit),  most  of  the 
disasters  of  this  war^ 


ST.  RUTH. 

His  early  life  and  achieyements,  when  Lieutenant-General  of 
the  French  army  in  Savoy,  are  alluded  to  ante^  at  Lord 
Mountcashers  Infantry.  [After  a  service  of  above  twenty 
years,  during  which  he  fought  in  the  wars  of  Holland, 
Flanders,  and  Germany,  this  officer  was  made  a  Lieutenant* 
Gen^ul  in  1688;  and,  in  1690,  was  appointed  to  command 
the  force  of  French  and  Irish  (the  latter  of  MountcasheFs 
Brigade),  designed  for  the  reduction  of  the  Duchy  of  Savoy, 
which,  by  reason  of  the  bravery  of  his  Irish  foroe,  he  rapidly 
subdued.]  He  was  thereupon  nominated  to  act  as  General  of 
Eang  James's  army  in  Ireland ;  and  then  it  was  that  the  King 
of  France  is  reported  to  have  said  of  him,  *^  whatever  he,  a 
Captiun  of  great  conduct  and  experience,  after  arriving  in 
Ireland,  and  informing  himself  upon  the  place,  should  judge 
necessary  for   the   work,    he    (Louis)    would    not    fail    in 


782  APPSKDIX. 

despatching  to  Ireland.'**  On  the  8th  of  May,  1691,  as 
before  mentioned,  he  arrived  in  Limerick,  (the  siege  of  the 
Irish  town  having  already  commenced),  brining  with  him 
146  officers,  150  cadets,  800  English  and  Scotch,  24  sni^geons, 
180  masons,  2  bombardiers,  18  cannoniers,  800  horses,  19 
pieces  of  cannon,  12,000  horse-shoes,  6,000  bridles  and  saddles, 
16,000  muskets ;  uniforms,  stockings  and  shoes  f<»r  16,000 
men,  some  lead  and  balls,  and  a  large  supply  of  biscuit  ;"t  but, 
adds  the  London  Gazette,  no  men  or  money. 

On  the  20th  of  June  following,  having  received  advice  that 
the  English  town  of  Athlone  was  besieged  (the  siege  at  the 
Irish  side  had  commenced  before),  he  '* advanced  with  a  body 
of  Horse  and  Foot,  and  encamped  within  a  ceavenient  distance 
of  the  Irish  town,"  which  he  thought  De  Ginkell  could  not 
take.  But  his  own  over-confidence  facilitated  the  event;  it 
was  taken  on  the  last  day  of  that  month,'  On  this  defeat, 
St.  Ruth  retired  to  Ballinasloe,  and  there  held  a  council  of 
war,  where,  by  the  influence  of  Sarsfield's  opinion  and  that  of 
the  majority  of  the  Jacobite  officers,  it  was  resolved  to  offer 
battle  on  ground  that  seemed, advantageous  to  the  Irish,  who 
were  in  other  respects  ill  qualified  to  compete  with  the  enemy. 
[They  were  at  most  but  15,000  men,  and  thdbr  artillery  9 
field  pieces ;  while  the  Williamites  mustered  27  Begiments  of 
Foot,  19  of  Horse,  and  nearly  4  c^  Dragoons ;  or  at  least 
25,000  men,  consisting  of  choice  British  and  Continental 
levies,  superiorly  paid  and  equipped,  and  with  a  vast  artillery.] 

The  ground  so  selected  by  St  Buth  and  his  Council  was 
Aughrim,  three  miles  beyond  Ballinasloe.  De  Ginkell's  army 
came  in  sight  of  this  place  on  the  12th  of  July ;  the  battle 


*  C^CaiiagharCn  MaoaricB  Exddium^  jk  95* 
:  MeuL^  p.  134,  dtiiig  Qmqf^  thie  Historuu] 


ST.   KUTH.  788 

was  joined  without  delay,  and  continued  from  noon  to  sunset; 
at  which  time  the  victory  seemed  with  the  Irish,  when  a 
cannon  ball  felled  St.  Ruth,  and  the  Irish  Cavalry  thereupon 
gave  way  and  quitted  the  field,  the  flower  of  their  army  and 
nation  having  been  lost  there  that  day,  with  the  Dynasty  in 
whose  service  they  fought.  The  spot  where  St,  Ruth  fell  is 
traditionally  marked  by  a  white  thorn  bush,  while  on  the 
southern  slope  of  the  hill  are  yet  trax^es  of  an  old  burial 
ground,  in  which  it  is  said  his  body  was  first  interred,  but 
afterwards  removed  to  Athenry,  Story  says  be  never  could 
learn  what  became  of  St.  Ruth's  corse.  He  fell  at  the  critical 
minute,  when  he  was  avowedly  about  to  lead  a  charge  of 
cavalry  down  the  hill  of  Kilcommodon  against  the  advancing 
enemy.  *' Impartial  posterity,"  writes  O'Conor,*  ''must  do 
jTistice  to  St.  Ruth;  he  considered  the  Irish  an  injured  and 
oppressed  people,  martyrs  to  their  religion  and  victims  to 
loyalty,  and  he  devoted  to  their  cause  all  the  ener^es  of  his 
mind  and  body.  He  had  not  been  in  Ireland  ten  weeks,  and 
his  activity  during  that  period  in  collecting  the  scattered 
troops,  in  organizing  them,  and  providing  them  with  neces- 
saries, had  scarcely  admitted  intermission  for  the  needful  rest 
which  exhausted  nature  required." 

The  numbers  of  the  killed  and  wounded,  on  each  side  on 
this  day,  are  reported  with  the  usual  and  natural  variances. 
The  Williamite,  Captain  Parker  who  was  at  the  engagement, 
says,  'we  had  above  3,000  killed  and  wounded;*  while,  accord* 
ing  to  King  James's  Memoir^  '  the  Irish  lost  near  4,000  men* 
nor  was  the  loss  of  the  English  much  inferior/*  Of  the 
officers,  &c.,  who  fell  or  were  taken  prisoners,  the  subjoined 
may  be  considered  a  tolerably  accurate  detail. 


*  (TConor^i  MUiL  Mem,,  p.  138. 


784 


APPEMBIX. 


"A  LIST  OF  THE  CONSIDERABLE  IRISH 
OFFICERS  KILLED  AND  TAKEN  AT 
AUGHRIM,  JULY  12,  1691. 


In  the  Provotfi  handi. 


PriBOH^rt  not  womded       Qffio&n  kObd  on  A$  FiM. 
nor  MS  tke  Prowftfs  kandg. 


Oolond  Walter  Boarke. 
lient-Col.  John  Baggot. 
LieqL-Col.  John  Bradiea 
Major-Qenenl  Roorke. 
Major  Edmund  Bntlsr. 
Major  William  Bourke. 
9Captaina. 
198  Private  Men. 


/•  th0  htmda  oftk€  DtOch 
ProvotL 


Uent-CoL  John  OhapeU. 
Uent-GoL  Mnrt  MtQennia. 
Major  Henr^  Kell;^. 
Major  Patrick  Lawless. 
317  Private  Men. 


Major  General  Dorringtoo, 
now  in  Dublin  Castle. 

LordSlane. 

Lord  Kilmaine. 

LordBophin. 

LordKenmaie. 

Colonel  Bntler. 

Colonel  Grace. 

Lord  Baltimore's  son. 

CoL  Thonpui  Bntler  of 
KBlcash. 

Lient-Col.  John  Bntler  his 
brother. 

Colonel  Dan.  O^NeOl. 

Colonel  Cormnck  0*NeilL 

Colonel  Bellew. 

Colonel  EdmnndO*Madden. 


Priionen  that  are  fDounded, 


Prisoners  died  o/their 
wounds. 


Mijor-Gen.  John  Hamilton. 
Brigadier  William  Taite, 
Lord  Bellew. 
Colonel  O^ConnelL 
Brigadier  Gordon  O'Ndlt 
Iient.-CoL  Boberts. 
Lieot-Col  Fit2-patrick. 
Lient-CoL  Bossiter. 
IAent.-Col.  Alex.  Magaire. 
Miyor  Edmnnd  Braoghall, 
Major  John  Hewson, 


Lient-Gen.  St  Rnth< 
Brigadier  Henzy  O'NeilL 
Lord  Dillon. 

BrigadierManrice  0*Connen. 
Lord  Kflmalloek. 
Lord  BUMhe. 
Col.  Daniel  Mac  Carthy. 
Colonel  James  Talbot. 
Cols.  DavidandmickBiDke. 
Colonel  Ozbugh. 
Colonel  Porcell. 
CoL  Cnchonaght  M*Gnire. 
Col.  FeUx  0*NeQl,  Ute 

Master  of  Chancery. . 
Sir  John  Everard. 
Colonel  Massey. 
Colonel  Walter  Nngent 
Colonel  Mnlledy. 
Colonel  Delahide. 
Colonel  CMahony. 
Major  0*Donnell. 


Lord  Gi|lway. 
Brigadier  Barker, 
Colonel  Charies  Moore. 
Lieut-Col.  Baggot 
Lieut-Col.  Moigan, 
Colonel  Aithitr. 


Inferior  Officers^  ^ 
27  Captains. 
81  lieutenants. 
SOEnaigna. 

4  Comets. 

5  Quarter-Masters, 
1  Adjutant. 

81  Colours. 
U  Standards. 

1  Kettle  drum. 

9  Cannon   all    their 

tentB,  bag,  and  baggage," 


EDWABD  GHETEBS.  785 


IRISH  OFFICERS,  &c. 


EDWARD  CHEVERS,  COMMONLY  CALLED 

MOUNT  LEINSTER. 

This  family  name  was  introduced  into  England  on  the 
Nonnan  Conquest,  and  the  great  surrey,  entitled  the 
Domesday  Book,  reports  William  *  Chievre*  a  tenant  in  capite 
in  Devonshire,  which  was  the  officiiia  gentium  of  many  of  the 
distinguished  Anglo-Norman  settlers  in  England.  Sir  William 
Chevre,  a  namesake,  and,  it  may  be  presumed,  a  descendant 
of  this  settler,  was  one  of  the  companions  of  Strongbow's 
invasion  of  Ireland,  and  the  name  has  since  been  of  frequent 
record  in  that  country.  In  1355  Heyn  Chevyr  appears  on  the 
roll  of  proprietors  in  Wexford,  and  in  that  county  the  name 
was,  for  many  succeeding  years,  most  influential.  Richard 
Chevyr  was  seised  of  lands  in  Kilkenny  in  the  following  year; 
and  in  1405  John  Chevyr  was  appointed  one  of  the  Justices  of 
the  Peace  for  the  same  County,  as  well  as  for  Waterford,  with 
power  to  array  and  assess  the  -inhabitants  for  military  service. 
He  was  afterwards  entrusted  with  various  ministerial  appoint- 
ments ;  and  in  the  last  year  of  the  reign  of  Heiuy  the  Fifth 
had  a  grant  of  the  custody  of  all  those  matiors,  lands,  d^.,  in 
Wexford,  of  which  Gilbert  Talbot,  late  Lord  Wexford,  had 
died  seised.  In  1425  William  Chevyr  had  a  confirmation 
from  the  Crown  of  the  manor  of  Ballyhaly  with  BaUyclem- 
hay,  and  Ballycullen,  in  that  County,  to  hold,  as  he  and  his 
ancestors  held  them  theretofore,  and  he  was  in  ten  years 
afterwards  appointed  Justice  of  the  King's  Bench  in  Ireland.^ 

VOL.  II.  3  E 


786  APPENDIX. 

In  1459  John,  son  of  the  aforesaid  John  CheTjr  of  1405,  a 
clergyman,  was  constitated  Keeper  of  the  RoUs,  with  all  fees 
and  customs,  in  lieu  of  which,  however,  as  a  better  proTision, 
the  King  granted  to  him  the  royal  manor  of  Esker,  in  the 
Coonty  of  Dublin,  excepting  the  water-mill  thereon. 

About  the  year  1580,  Christopher  Cheevera  of  Ballyhaly, 
Benight,  a  lineal  descendant  of  the  aforesaid  William  of  1425, 
settled  all  his  estates  to  the  use  of  John,  his  son  and  heir,  who 
died  in  1599,  leaving  Christopher,  his  son  and  heir,  then  aged 
19,  who  married,  and,  dying  in  1603,  left  Marcus,  his  son  and 

heir. Another  branch  of  the  Cheevers  family  was  settled 

at  Monkstown,  in  the  County  of  Dublin,  of  which  estate 
Walter  Cheevers  had  livery  of  seisin  in  1605,  and  he  and 
Thomas,  both  described  as  of  that  locality,  were  attainted  in 
1642.  However,  in  1666,  Walter  Cheevers  got  a  grant  of 
said  lands  of  Monkstown  alias  Carrickbrenan,  and  Newtown- 
of-the^Strand,  total  1715  acres.  In  1646  Arthur  Cheevers  of 
Ballysesken,  in  the  County  of  Wexford,  sat  in  Ealkenny,  as 
a  Member  of  the  Confederate  Catholics.  In  1665  an  Inqui- 
sition post  mortem  was  taken  at  Wexford,  which  found  that 
George  Chevers  had  been  seised  of  Ballyneclush,  Killiane^ 
and  other  lands  in  Wexford,  containing  upwards  of  1,600 
acres,  and  that  he,  on  the  Ist  March,  1641,  with  others 
abetting  his  rebellion,  joined  with  the  besiegers  of  Duncannon 
against  Lord  Esmonde,  who  then  kept  that  fort,  and  therefore 
he  had  been  attainted. 

Here,  to  return  to  Christopher  of  1580,  he,  marrying  Anne 
Plunkett,  acquired  by  her  the  estate  of  Macetown,  in  the 
County  of  Meath,  wherein  he  was  succeeded  by  his  eldest  son 
Walter,  who  married  Eleanor,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Wells, 
Chancellor  of  Ireland  temp,  Edward  IV.  His  great-great- 
grandson.  Sir  Christopher  Chevers  of  Macetown,  Knight, 


EDWARD   CHETEBS.  787 

passed  patent  in  161 1<  for  the  manor,  castle,  and  water  mill  of 
Eathmore,  with  appurtenances,  in  Kildare  and  Carlow,  also 
for  the  manor,  castle,  and  lands  of  Grangeforth,  in  Carlow; 
the  castle  of  Haystown,  the  townlands  of  Three  Castles,  &c. 
He  died  in  1640,  leaving  issue  by  his  wife  (who  was  a  sister 
of  the  first  Earl  of  Westmeath)  six  sons  and  three  daughters, 
and  was  succeeded  by  his  eldest  son  John,  who  shortly  after 
married  Joan,  daughter  of  Edward  Sutton,  Esq.,  and,  though 
he  took  no  active  part  in  the  civil  wars  which  at  that  time 
devastated  Ireland,  he  was  deprived  of  his  extensive  estates  in 
Leinster,  and  transplanted  by  Cromwell  to  an  allotment  of 
less  value,  both  in  quality  and  quantity,  situate  in  the  Baronies 
of  Killyan  and  Dunkellin,  in  G«lway.  A  decree  of  the  Court 
of  Adjudications,  which  sat  at  Loughrea,  in  1656,  established 
this  expulsion,  and  many  interesting  particulars  connected 
with  it  are  to  be  found  in  Orrenfa  State  Letters^  vol.  1,'  in  the 
Lords'  JoumaU  (Jrish)^  vol.  2,  and  in  an  Appeal  Case  of  the 
18th  century. 

This  John  who  had  been  so  transplanted,  died  in  1688 — 
leaving  three  sons,  Edward,  this  Viscount  Mount  Leinster, 
Andrew,  and  John-~^his  widow  married  Lord  Castle  Council. 
Edward  the  eldest  son,  forgetful  of  the  spoliation  of  his 
father,  became  an  active  supporter  of  James  II.,  in  whose 
army  he  was,  as  above,  an  ofScer;  immediately  before  the 
meeting  of  the  Parliament  of  Dublin,  that  Monarch  created 
him  Viscount  Mount  Leinster,  and  the  civil  articles  of 
Limerick  contained  a  clause,  that  he,  Cheevers  of  Macetown, 
commonly  called  Mount  Leinster,  with  other  officers  therein 
named,  whose  Regiments  w^re  beyond  the  seas,  should  have 
the  benefit  of  the  articles,  provided  they  returned  within  eight 
months  of  the  date,  submitted  to  their  Majesties'  Government, 
and  took  the  oaths  of  allegiance.    Mount  Leinster,  who  had 


788  APPENBIX. 

married  Anne,  sister  of  Patrick  Sarsfield,  Earl  of  Lucan, 
declining  to  aviul  himself  of  the  amnesty  thus  offered,  still 
adhered  to  the  dethroned  Monarch,  and  was  attainted,  where- 
upon his  confiscated  estates  were  sold  to  the  Hollow  Swords' 
Blades  Company, — by  whom  they  were  resold  to  Terence 
Geoghegan. — The  outlawed  Viscount  died  abroad  in  1709,  s,p. 
The  others  of  this  name  attainted  in  1691,  were  Christopher, 
John,  Patrick,  Bobert  and  James  Cheevers  of  Camstown  in 
LfOUth ;  Paul  of  Wexford,  Peter  of  Tomcoole,  and  Arthur  of 
Adamstown  in  the  County  of  Wexford ;  one  of  these  was  a 
Lieutenant  in  Lord  MountcasheFs  Infantry,  another  a  Captain 
in  Lord  Slane's,  and  a  third  in  Colonel  John  Grace's. 

After  much  litigation,  Andrew,  and  John  Chevers  the 
brother  and  heir  of  Viscount  Mount  Leinster,  succeeded  in 
preserying  a  portion  of  the  estates  allotted  to  the  fiunily  in 
Galway ;  and  the  male  line  of  Andrew  becoming  extinct,  on 
the  death  of  his  son  Hyacinth,  John  Chevers  became  the 
representative  of  the  House  of  Killyan.  This  John,  having 
married  Ellis,  daughter  of  Edward  Geogh^an,  .Esq.,  of 
Castletown,  County  Westpaeath,  had  by  her  (with  a  daughter, 
who  married  Sir  John  Burke  of  Glynsk,  Baronet,)  four  sons, 
viz.,  Michael,  Edward,  Christopher  and  Mathias,  the  latter  a 
Lieutenant-Colonel  in  the  Spanish  service  and  a  Knight  of 
San  Fernando.  The  eldest  son,  Michael,  married  a  daughter 
of  OTlyn*  of  Furlough  in  the  County  Galway,  and  had  by 
her,  John,  who  died  without  issue;  Christopher,  married  to 
the  Honourable  Miss  Nugent,  who  also  died  without  issue; 
Hyacinth;  and  a  daughter,  married  to  Michael  Blake,  Esq., 
of  KiltuUa  Castle,  in  the  County  of  Gralway.  The  youngest 
son,  Hyacinth,  married  about  the  year  1782,  Mary,  daughter 

*  Of  this  family  see  ante  p.  d37. 


WILLIAM  TUITE.  789 

of  the  late  Patrick  Lynch,  Esq.,  of  Cottage,  in  the  same 
County,  and  had  issue  by  her,  three  sons  and  two  daughters, 
viz.,  John ;  Christopher,  who  married  Miss  Lynch,  and  has 
issue ;  Patrick,  married  to  Eleanor  Cashell,  who  has  a 
daughter;  Mary,  married  to  Michael  B.  Plunkett,  Esq.,  an 
officer  in  the  Army,  lately  deceased,  who  left  issue;  and 
Eliza,  married  to  James  D'Arcy,  Esq.,  of  New  Forest  in 
Galway,  and  Rockyale,ijaJ21are- 

John  Cheyers  the  eldest  son  of  Hyacinth,  married,  in  1822, 
Eleanor,  eldest  daughter  of  the  late  John  McDonnell,  Esq., 
of  Camacon  in  the  County  Mayo,  of  whose  lineage  see  ante^ 
p.  172,  &c.,  and  has  issue. 

Michael  Joseph  of  Killyan^  D.L.,  High  Sheriff  of  the 
County  of  Gralway^  and  male  representative  of  the  abore 
officer. ^-^Christopher  of  Lincoln's  Inn,  Barrister,  who  now 
bears  the  additional  surname  of  McDonnell,  in  pursuance  of 

the  will  of  his  maternal  uncle; Joseph,  deceased  without 

issue ; Edward  of  Fisher  Hill,  in  the  County  Mayo ; 

Hyacinth ^and  Maria,  a  Nun. 


BBIGADIEB-GENERAL  WILLIAM  TUITE. 

BiCHABD  DE  TuiTE,  the  founder  of  this  fiunily  in  Ireland, 
came  over  hither  with  Strongbow;  and  obtained,  by  the 
interference  of  that  leader  and  by  his  own  valour,  '  fair 
possessions'  in  Teffia,  including  Sonnagh,  Imper,  &c.  He 
was  one  of  the  witnesses  to  Hugh  de  Lacy's  grant  of  lands 
and  churches  to  the  Abbey  of  St.  Thomas  the  Martyr,  in 
Dublin;  and  when  Meath,  the  mensal  demesne  of  the  Irish 
Elings,  was  erected  into  a  Palatinate,  this  Bichard  became  a 


790  APPENDIX. 

Palatine  Peer,  by  the  title  of  Baron  of  MoyashiU,  which  he 
transmitted  to  his  posterity,  through  many  generations.  He 
was  killed  in  1211  by  the  iall  of  a  tower  in  Athlone,  and 
buried  in  the  Cistercian  Abbey  near  Granard,  which  himself 
had  previously  founded,  and  where  he  had  also  raised  a  frontier 
Castle.  The  Lords  Howth  in  early  time  held  the  manor  of 
Kilbarrock,  under  the  Barons  de  Tuite.*  The  son  of  this  first 
Baron,  Richard  de  Tuite  the  younger,  to  whom  Henry  the 
Third,  in  1224,  committed  the  custody  of  the  Castle  of  Clon- 
macnois,  marched,  in  eight  years  after,  under  the  standard  of 
William  de  Lacy  into  Upper  Brefney,  against  the  O'Reillys, 
by  whose  Sept,  however,  the  invaders  were  defeated  with  great 
loss ;  Richard  de  Tuite  and  Simon  de  Lacy  being  amongst  the 
wounded.  Li  1244  Richard  had  military  summons  to  a  Royal 
expedition  against  the  Scots.  According  to  the  Four  Masters, 
he  (styled  the  great  baron)  was  killed  in  1289  near  Athlone, 
by  the  resistance  of  the  O'Melaghlin. 

John  de  Tuyt,  a  nephew  of  Richard,  had  summons  to  serve 
with  King  Edward  in  1302  in  the  war  of  Scotland;  and 
he,  dying  soon  after,  was  succeeded  by  his  son,  Richard,  who 
sat  in  the  Parliament  of  1310  as  a  Palatine  Knight,  was  in 
1311  required  to  attend  that  of  Kilkenny,  and  in  six  years 
aft^r  was  commanded  to  continue  his  exertions  for  the  defence 
of  Lreland  against  the  enemy.  In  1318  he  was  one  of  the 
officers  under  John  de  Bermingham,  when  that  leader  marched 
out  the  Eang's  power  against  Edward  Bruce  at  Dundalk ;  in 
1323  he  was  ordered  to  attack  and  pursue  Roger  de  Mortimer, 
in  the  event  of  his  taking  refuge  in  Ireland  ;t  in  the  following 
year  he  was  summoned  to  the  defence  of  Aquitaine,  and  in 
1325  again  sat  as  a  peer  in  Parliament.    His  eldest  son,  John 

*  Lynch  on  Feudal  Dignities^  p.  137.         t  Parliamentaiy  Writs. 


WILLIAM   TUITE.  791 

de  Tuite,  Lord  of  Sonnagh,  sat  iu  that  of  Dublin  in  1333, 
and  in  two  years  after  was  knighted.  The  eldest  son  of  this 
Sir  John  died  without  issue  male,  when  the  family  estates, 
which  were,  on  an  inquisition  post  mortem^  found  to  comprise 
nine  manors  and  about  forty  extensive  townlands,  vested  in 
lus  brother,  Thomas  de  Tuyt,  as  heir  male,  and  who  was  in 
1373  and  subsequently  summoned  as  a  Knight  to  great 
Councils  and  Parliaments.  Andrew  Tuite  was  one  of  the 
great  men  of  the  Pale,  who  signed  the  memorable  memorial 
in  favour  of  Liord  Fumival  in  1417.  In  1556  Thomas  Tuite 
of  Sonnagh,  and  other  Tuites  representing  the  lines  of 
Baltrasna  and  Monilea,  were  summoned  to  appear  in  person 
with  their  men  and  horses  at  a  General  Hosting  against  an 
expected  invasion  of  the  Soots  in  the  North  of  Ireland.  In 
1622  Oliver  Tuite  of  Sonnagh  was  created  a  Baronet,  a  title 
which  still  exists  in  his  lineal  heir  male.  They,  and  the  other 
members  of  the  Tuite  family,  distinguished  themselves  by 
their  attachment  to  the  Stuart  Dynasty,  and  suffered  severely 
for  that  allegiance.  In  the  confiscations  of  1641  alone,  they 
lost  most  extensive  tracts  in  the  Counties  of  Longford,  Meath, 
and  Westmeath ;  which  were  distributed  to  Lord  Wharton, 
Robert  Cooke,  and  many  other  patentees. 

In  the  clause  of  wordy  thanks  from  Charles  the  Second  for 
services  beyond  the  seas^  three  members  of  this  family  are 
included,  Captain  Jasper  Tuite,  Lieutenant  Harry  Tuite,  and 
Ensign  William  Tuite.  The  last  appears  identical  with  the 
above  Brigadier^General,  and  was  the  son  of  Edmund  Tuite 
of  Tuitestown,  by  Mary,  daughter  of  the  aforesaid  Sir  Oliver 
Tuite,  Baronet.  In  1680  he,  by  the  style  of  Captain  William 
Tuite,  passed  patent  for  338  acres  in  Mayo.  His  brother, 
Walter  Tuite  of  Monilea,  served  in  the  same  army  with  this 
Brigadier,  and  was  attainted  with  him  in  1691.     He  married 


Mmrgant,  dtm^ter  of  Ihmd  O'Moie  of  Port  Allen,  in  the 
Qoeeo'a  Conntj,  by  whom  he  had  thirteen  flooa,  eleren  of 
whom  fell  in  the  eunpeign  of  1691,  lesrin^  but  two  anrfiTon 
to  coDtiniie  that  line.*  Brigadier-Creneiml  William  was  taken 
priiODer  at  At^lifim,t  and  with  him  were  attainted  in  1691 
aix  othen  of  thitf  name.  Jcdm  Tnite  wa«  an  Ensign  in  Lord 
Bellew'a  Infimtry. 

air  Mark  Anthony  Henry  Toite  is  the  pteaeut  Baionett 
bttt  the  inheritance  of  the  ancient  estate  of  Sonna^  vesled, 
onda*  fiynily  settlement,  in  his  oonsin  Hugh  Morgan  Tnite, 
who  for  some  years  was  one  of  the  B^nesentatives  of  West- 
meadi  in  Parliament. 


PITZ- WILLIAM,  VISCOUNT  MEBBION. 

Some  genealogists  maintain  that  a  Thomas  Fits^-WilUam,  who 
came  out  of  Normandy  wilh  Edward  the  Confessor,  was  the 
founder  of  this  noble  &mily ;  be  this  as  it  may,  the  officer  here 
tmder  conrideration,  also  named  Thomas,  was  the  fourth 
Viscount  Fitz- William  of  Merrion,  [and  was  among  the  Priyy 
Councilors  sworn  before  King  James  after  his  coming  to 
Ireland,  in  1689*  He  is  not  marked  as  dtling  in  the 
Parliament  of  that  year,  although,  as  so  connected  with  the 
state,  it  is  strange  how  such  an  absence  from  thb  assembly 
could  have  occurred.  In  June,  1690,  his  Lordship  was 
appointed  a  Commiseioner  of  the  Treasury  in  Ireland,  and  in 
the  next  or  final  year  of  the  war  there,  he  was  Colonel  of  one 

*  ArchdaWs  Lodge^B  Peerage^  voL  3,  p.  26-27,  n. 
t  SUHTft  Impart,  HitL^  pt.  IL,  p.  187. 


JOHN   WAUCHOF.  793 

of  King  James's  Begiments  of  Horse.  By  the  intercepting 
of  two  of  Sir  Richard  Nagle's  letters  to  his  Lordship,  some 
interesting  particulars,  respecting  the  last  illness  and  death  of 
Tyrconnel  are  disclosed.]  A  solitary  notice  of  this  Lord  as 
such  Colonel,  appears  in  the  Diary  preserved  in  the  Harleian 
Miscellany  (vol.  7,  p.  483,  old  ed.)  It  says,  '*  1691,  1st 
September,  Brigadier  Levison,  having  learned  where  the  Lord 
Merrion's  and  the  Lord  Brittas's  Horse  were,  marched  towards 
them,  and  by  one  o'clock  in  the  morning  fell  in  with  them, 
killed  a  great  number,  cutting  off  several  entire  troops,  very 
few  escaping ;  and  taking  the  Lord  Castleconnell's  Lady  and 
divers  others  prisoners,  as  also  a  good  prey  of  cattle.''  Vis- 
count Fitz- William  had  been  outlawed  in  1691,  but,  under 
the  protection  of  the  Treaty  of  Limerick,  his  attainder  was 
reversed,  and  in  February,  1704,  he  died. 


MAJOR-GENERAL  JOHN  WAUCHOP. 

This  officer,  Colonel  O'Kelly  says,  *'  was  a  Scotchman  by 
birth,  but  zealous  enough  for  the  Roman  Catholic  religion, 
and  also  seemed  no  less  concerned  for  the  Irish  interest."  It 
ifl  probable  if  he  was  not  the  grandson,  he  was  a  near  relative 
of  James  Wauchop,  described  as  '  of  BaUygraphen,'  and  one 
of  a  batch  to  whom,  on  the  Plantation  of  Ulster,  King  James 
in  1618  granted  "freedom  from  the  yoke  of  the  servitude  of 
the  Scotch  or  Irish  nation,  with  liberty  to  enjoy  all  the  rights 
and  privileges  of  English  subjects.''  That  single  patent  of 
denization  introduced  into  Ulster  upwards  of  one  hundred 
families. 

[John  Wauchop  as  Brigadier  served  King  James  at  Derry 


794  APPENDIX. 

in  1689,  and  commanded  at  Cavan  in  1690 ;  where,  in  defence 
of  the  frontier  against  the  Northern  Williaoutes,  aided  by 
parties  of  Marshal  Schonberg^s  troops,  his  post  was  one  of 
perilous  activity.  In  1691  he,  at  the  Siege  of  Athlone,  as  a 
Major-General,  was  Governor  of  the  Castle,  until,  on  the  &11 
of  the  town,  he  was  obliged  to  surrender  its  shattered  citadel 
to  De  Ginkell,  when  himself  was  made  prisoner,  but  having 
been  soon  exchanged,  he  was  on  active  duty  at  the  second 
siege  of  Limerick.]  When  the  capitulation  of  that  city  was 
necessitated,  at  the  close  of  September,  1691,  Wauchop  and 
Sarsfield  came  into  the  English  camp  to  settle  the  heads  of 
the  proposed  articles  of  surrender,  and  to  arrange  the  exchange 
of  hostages.*  In  the  care  and  responsibility  of  embarking 
the  last  considerable  body  of  the  military  emigrants  from 
Ireland,  on  the  ensuing  heart-rending  occasion,  Wauchop 
was  associated  with  Sarsfield,  see  ante^  vol.  1,  p.  153,  yet 
were  not  their  patriotism  and  good  repute  unassailed  therefor. 
A  memorial  was  published  in  1694,  entitled,  7^  Groans  of 

Ireland,  and  attributed  to O'Neill,  *  the  chief  of  an 

ancient  family  of  Ireland ;'  it  was  dedicated  to  King  William, 
and  contained  the  most  bitter  invectives  against  these  indi- 
viduals, as  the  authors  of  the  personal  miseries  experienced 
by  the  Irish,  who  followed  with  them  the  fortunes  of  King 
James  into  France.  This  document  would  insinuate  that 
Wauchop  and  Sarsfield  but  sought  to  build  their  own  fortunes 
in  France  upon  the  ruins  of  the  eidled  Irish.  *''  Alas  I''  says 
this  accuser,  '4t  is  a  miserable  sight  to  see  the  condition  the 
poor  gentlemen  are  in ;  and  the  women  and  children,  invited 
to  go  along  with  their  husbands,  are  now  begging  their  bread 
from  door  to  door,  and  cannot  get  it.     I  saw  Lieutenants, 

^  Harleum  ifuc,  y.  7,  p.  488. 


n 


JOHN   WAUCHOP.  795 

Ensigns,  and  sub-Lieutenants,  who  were  Lieutenant-Colonels, 
Majors,  and  Captains  in  Ireland,  that  were  forced  to  turn  off 
their  wives,  to  shun  a  misery  equal  to  that  of  the  last  cam- 
paign; and  I  know  others,  who  saw  not  their  children  since 
they  came  to  France,  and  they  know  not  whether  they  live  in 
misery  or  were  starved  to  death ;  for  when  they  were  reduced 
in  France  to  four-pence  per  day,  they  were  obliged  to  leave 
their  children  to  the  wide  world."*  The  utter  falsehood  of 
these  calumnies  succeeded  in  obtaining  a  long  interval  of 
credence,  nor  was  it  until  the  recent  publication  of  the 
Macarice  Excidium,  that  its  diligent  Editor  prostrated  the 
slander.  (Note  282,  pp.  49&--495.)  Wauchop  served  «with 
the  Irish  troops  until  1693,  and  distinguished  himself  at  the 
taking  of  Rosas  in  Catalonia^  under  the  Marshal  Duke  de 
Noailles,  in  June ;  in  the  following  October  he  fell  gloriously 
fighting  under  the  Marshal  Catinat,  at  the  great  overthrow  of 
the  Allies  in  the  battle  of  Marsaglia. 

Story  says  of  the  departure  of  these  patriot  emigrants, 
*^  That  which  they  call  the  Soyal  Regiment,  being  then  1,400 
men,  seemed  to  go  all  entire,  which  the  General  (G inkle)  was 
much  concerned  at.  Then  Lord  Iveagh's  Regiment  of  Ulster 
came  off  entire  to  our  side,  as  did  also  Colonel  Wilson's,  and 
about  half  Lord  Louth's,  and  a  great  many  out  of  most  other 
Regiments.  Brigadier  Clifford,  Colonel  Henry  Luttrell,  and 
Colonel  Puroell  all  appeared  averse  to  the  going  for  France. 
The  following  day.  Lord  Iveagh's,  Colonel  Wilson's,  part  of 
Lord  Dillon's,  Colonel  Hussey's,  and  other  Irish  Regiments 
were  mustered  nigh  the  General's  Quarters,  making  1,046 
men  in  these  days,  besides  double  the  number  that  had  passes 
to  go  home  ;    all  of  whom  were  plentifully  supplied  with 

*  Thorpe's  CataL  SotUkwell  MSS,,  p.  236. 


^ 


796  APPJCNDIX. 

provisions,  as  the  General  was  resolved  to  do  all  things 
possible  to  prevent  the  Irish  going  in  so  great  numbers  out  of 
the  Kingdom,  as  being  a  strengthening  our  adversaries  .  .  . 
The  Earl  of  Lucan  and  l^Iajor-Greneral  Wauchop  engaged  for 
the  due  supply  and  appro{Hiation  of  the  shipping,  and  the 
return  of  the  transports,  while  Colonel  Hugh  Mac  Mahon, 
Colonel  Robert  Arthur,  and  Colonel  O'Gbua  were  left  as 
hostages  for  the  due  performance  of  the  agreements  on  the 
part  of  the  emigrants  ....  On  the  16th  of  October  there 
marched  out  of  Limerick  Sir  Maurice  Eustace's  Regiment, 
Major-Genend  Talbot's,  Lord  Bellew's,  Prince  of  Wales's  (so 
Story  styles  FUz-James's),  Lord  Clanricarde's,  and  Colonel 
Bermingham's ;  yet  they  made  in  all  only  618  men/'*  On 
the  succeeding  11th  and  12th  January,  "  Orders  and  instruc- 
tions issued  for  breaking  up  the  Lish  army,  retaining  no  more 
than  1,400  men  to  be  employed  at  present,  and  those  to  be 
divided  into  two  battalions,  to  be  commanded  by  Colonel 
Wilson  and  Baldeai^  O'Donnell." 

In  the  Appendix  to  King's  State  of  the  Protestants^  p.  88, 
&c.,  is  an  exceedingly  interesting  "  List  of  all  the  men  of  note 
that  came  with  Eang  James  out  of  France,  or  that  followed 
him  after,  as  far  as  can  be  collected ;"  and  who  can  look  upon 
this  venerable  *  hatchment'  of  chivalrous  cavaliers,  without 
feeling  sympathy  for  their  fate?  With  comparatively  little 
more  than  their  own  very  scanty  means,  they  had  been 
abandoned  to  contend  with  powers  of  enormous  superiority, 
directed  against  them  by  the  Prince  of  Orange,  as  King  of 
England  and  Scotland,  Stadtholder  of  Holland,  and  Head  of 
the  League  of  Augsburg,  f    It  has  been  calculated  that  no 

*  Story* i  Impart,  Hist.^  part  II.,  p.  261. 
t  Bee  G'Callaghan's  Brigades,  y.  1,  p.  14^J6. 


JOHN  WAUCHOP.  797 

less  than  30,000  of  the  population  of  Ireland  emigrated  to 
France,  in  consequence  of  this  war  of  dynasties  and  creeds, 
thus  devoting  their  property,  their  lives,  their  estates  of  old 
ancestral  inheritance,  to  the  already  fallen  fortunes  of  the 
Stuart.  They  dung- to  James  as  their  rightful  king;  they 
held  a  faith  opposed  to  that  of  his  rival,  a  faith  which  their 
descendants  still  possess ;  they  were  removed  from  the  feelings 
that  in  England  ijivited  a  dynasty  of  foreigners  to  the  vacant 
throne ;  they  identified  their  country  with  the  race  and 
religion  of  James ;  they  gathered  their  Septs,  their  sons, 
their  soldiers  to  the  awful  struggle.  Youth  inspired  their 
hopes;  reli^ous  enthusiasm  assured  their  success;  yet  the 
foregoing  voliunes  evince  the  fatuity,  the  fatality  of  their 
expectations.  The  details  of  their  Kegiments  wear  a  melan- 
choly interest ;  they  are  as  ship  lists  of  noble  passengers  and 
crews,  that  have  long  since  perished  in  the  stormy  waters; 
nor  did  the  calamities  of  their  race  close  with  their  immo- 
lation. Forfeitures,  expatriation,  religiouB  persecution  rapidly 
ensued,  and  have  at  this  day  scarcely  left  a  trace  of — the 
ancient  aristocracy  of  Ireland, 

Happily  an  Historian  has  risen  up  with  the  most  desirable 
qualifications  for  commemorating  the  career  of  their  glorious 
exile.  The  achievements,  which  brightened  th^r  course  over 
the  various  kingdoms  of  the  Continent,  shall  be  preserved  to 
future  ages  in  O'Callaghan's  Historic  Details  ;  and,  if  I  may 
be  permitted  to  introduce  myself,  when  the  curtain  is  about 
to  fall  between  my  readers  and  me,  I  must  beg  leave  to 
acknowledge  the  valuable  assistance  I  have  derived  from  this 
gentleman,  since  the  publication  of  my  first  Edition, 


THE   END. 


INDEX 


OP 


NAMES    AND    FAMILIES, 

OF  WHOM  ARE  MEMOIRS  OR  NOTICES  TN  THE 

"ILLUSTRATIONS  OF  KING  JAMES'S  IRISH  ARMY  LIST.' 

(The  *  ^.''following  rtfermcea^  digHaguishes  500,  vfhepe  afamUtf  Memoir  occurs.) 


Acton,  i.,  260. 

Allen,  i.,  6,  32. 

Amory,  i.,  268,  269. 

Ankitell,  ii.,  405,  &o, 

Anthony,  i.,  32;  ii.,  613,  &c, 

Archbold,  i.,  7,  40,  308,  &c. 

Archdeacon,  i.,  382,  &c. 

Archer,  i.,  6,  34 ;  ii.,  431,  &o. 

Arthur,  i.,  7, 33,  204, 214 ;  ii.,  13,  && 

Arundel,  i.,  12;  ii.,  43,  &o. 

Asgill,  i.,  229 ;  ii.,  41. 

Ashbumham,  ii.,  235. 

Ashe,  ii.,  667,  &c. 

Athy,  ii.,  679,  &o. 

Atkins,  i.,  12. 

Aylmer,  L,  7,  36,  197,  &C. ;  ii.f  18, 

742,  &C. 
Aylward,  ii.,  227,  &c. 

Babe,  L,  35 ;  ii.,  430,  &c* 
Babington,  i.,  425. 
Bagnall,  i.,  6, 33, 66, 320 ;  ii.,  615,  &c. 
Bagot,  i.,  7,  33,  34,  35;  ii.,  570, 

Ac,  611. 
Baker,  i.,  132,  456,  &c. 
Balfe,  L,  6. 
Bamfield,  i.,  255,  &c. 


Barker,  ii.,  12,  &c 

Bamewall,  i.,  6,  10,  II,  34,  49,  50, 

66,  117,  &c.,  221,  310;    ii.,  238, 

254,  460,  475. 
Baron,  iL,  583,  &G. 
Banet,  ii.,  684,  &c 
Barry,  i.,  7,  45,  324,  443,  &c. ;  ii., 

152,  253,  507. 
de  Bathe,  iL,  53,  &c.,  214,  459. 
Beatagh,  i.,  93,  &c. 
Beckford,  L,  31,  381,  &c. 
Begg,  i.,  328,  &c.,  425. 
BeUew,  i.,  6,  11,   12,  34,  35,  126, 
243,  311,  312;  ii.,  254,  304,  &c., 
420,  452. 
Beresford,  iL,  208,  210. 
Berford,  ii.,  468,  &or. 
Bermingham,  L,  39,  43;    ii.,  149, 

&c,  306. 
Berwick,  Duke  of,  i.,  22,  &&,  39, 

57,  76,  860. 
Bingham,  L,  353. 
Binns,  ii.,  425,  Ac 
Blake,  L,  32,  38 ;  iL,  268,  &c.,  670. 
Blanchyille,  L,  34 ;  E,  581,  &c, 
Blenerhasset,  L,  327 ;  ii.,  375. 
Blount,  i.,  10,  11,57. 


800 


INDEX. 


Bltmden,  i.,  457. 
^  Bodkin,  L,  38,  371 ;  iL,  516,  &c 

Boisseleaa,  i.,  19,  39 ;  ii.,  489,  &c 

Bolton,  ii.,  623. 

Bond,  i.,  38,  40. 

Boole,  iL,  401. 

Boulger,  ii,  587,  &c.,  681 . 

Bowers,  i.,  330,  Ac, 

Boylan,  i.,  7. 

Boyton,  L,  36,  429. 

Brabazon,  L,  96,  184 ;  iL,  247,  272, 
&c. 

Brady,  331,  600,  &o. 

Branagan,  ii.,  315,  &o. 

Bray,  ii.,  415,  &c. 

Brenan,  ii.,  576,  Ao, 

Brett,  L,  7,  88. 

Brice,  L,  330. 

Bridgman,  ii.,  704, 

Browne,  L,  6,  7,  11,  83,  35.6-.8>9^ 
66,  88,  204,  266^7^  322-7,  363, 
437,  452;  iL,  149,  249,  283,  801, 
316,  Ac,  687,  &c.,^9,j&c^^^^ 

Brownlow,  i,,  67,  ••^*- 

Bruoe,  L,  180, 

Bruerton,  ii.,  613,  Ao, 

Bryan,  see  *  O'Brien.* 

Bulkeley,  i.,  11,  359, 

Borke,  Bourke,  Burgh,  de  Burgh,  i., 
3,  6,  10,  12,  27,  28,  31-2-&-7-8- 
9,  66, 137, 155,  280, 377 ;  iL,  131, 
ftc,  151, 251,  275, 289,  291,  &o., 
387,  514,  &c.,  756,  &o, 

Bumeil,  i.,  394. 

Burton,  L,  278,  428;  iL,  137. 

Bushe,  i.,  219,  228. 

Butler,  L,  6,  7,  lO^US,  84,  46,  49, 

A    T^^TKb    *^  ^*'  ^'^^  *^'  *^'  2^®'  ^2, 
w       ^'^  J    '  279,  324,  376;  iL,  115,  238,  396, 

403,  407, 573^  579,  Ac.,  582,  788. 
Byrne,  see  O'Byme. 


Caddell,  iL,  269. 

Caddon,  ii.,  572,  &c 

Cahill,  L,  454. 

Callanan,  ii.,  665. 

Campbell,  L,  378. 

Cantallon,  ii.,  614,  &c 

Cantwell,  i.,  6,  36,  278,  281,  &c. 

Carew,  L,  230,  &c 

Carpenter,  L,  67,  231. 

Carr,  ii.,  733,  &o. 

Carter,  iL,  335,  &c 

Cary,  iL,  694,  &c 

Casey,  L,  1,  238. 

Cashel,  i.,  7. 

Casinone,  L,  6,  98. 

Cassidy,  L,  37. 

Cavenagb,  L,  32 ;  iL,  888,  Ac 

Chalenor,  i.,  457, 

Chamock,  L,  256,  Ao, 

Chamberlain,  L,  14;  iL,  62,  &<^ 

Chappel,  ii.,  437,  Ac 

Charleton,  ii.,  129. 

Chevers,  L,  1 1, 85, 333, 391 ;  ii.,  175, 

785,  &0. 
Clancy,  i.,  383,  Ao. 
Clayton,  i.,  11. 
Cleare,  ii.,  591. 
Clements,  L,  37;  ii.,  361. 
Clifford,  i.,  403,  &c ;  iL,  254. 
Clinton,  L,  7;  ii.,  312,  &c. 
Cogan,  iL,  497,  &c. 
Coghlan,  L,  33,  34,  414,  Ac;  u., 

253,  408. 
Coldough,  L,  7, 32, 34, 156, 319,  Ac 
Coleman,  ii.,  78,  Ac 
CoUey,  Cooley,  Cowley,  L,  33,  90, 

91,251,299;  ii.,  610. 
Collins,  L,  454,  Ac. ;  iL,  401. 
CQlt,i.,  11;  ii.,491,  Ac 
Comerford,  L,  134, 136 ;  ii.,  210,  Ac 
Comyn,  L,  439 '  11.,  705,  Ac 


./ 


INI>£X. 


801 


Condon,  ii.,  108,  &a,  504,  &c. 
Connock,  IL,  515,  &c 
Conroy,  Corny,  iL,  540,  &c.,  598. 
Conway,  L,  327 ;  iL,  168,  254^  373, 

&0. 

Conyngham,  L,  75, 241,  &c. ;  ii.,  342. 

Cooke,  L,  32,  129. 

Copley,  ii.,  26. 

Coppinger,  i.,  447,  &c ;  iL,  720. 

Corbett,  L,  196,  &c ;  ii.,  84. 

Coshene,  ii.,  691,  &c. 

Coetello,  L,  425 ;  ii.,  283,  289,  Ac 

Cotter,  L,  35,  558. 

Courtney,  iL,  369,  &c. 

Cowdall,  i.,  25 ;  iL,  485,  &c. 

Cos,  L,  236,  &c ;  ii.,  623. 

Creagh,  i.,  40 ;  ii.,  650,  &c 

Crean,  L,  34. 

Croflon,  L,  29, 88, 413,  &c ;  iL,  264. 

Croghan,  ii.,  657,  &0. 

Crosby,  i,  441,  &c. 

Crowley,  iL,  314,  &c. 

Cruise,  L,  82,  243 ;  ii.,  81, 217,  &c 

CniTaii,L,  134. 

Curtain,  iL,  495. 

Cusack,  L,  10,  11,  67,  68,  88^  &c. 

D*Alton,  L,  32,  37,  225,  297,  378, 

418,  &c 
Daly,  L,  38;  iL,  148,  &c,  420. 
Daniel,  ii.,  128,  &c. 
Danter,  L,  244. 
Darby,  L,  327,  &o. 
D*Arey,L,6,  11,  229,  346;  ii.,  154, 

&c.,  219,  789. 
Dardis,  iL,  234. 

Davis,  L,  340;  iL,  58,  &c.,  433,  &c. 
Dease,  L,  82,  84;  ii.,  128,  &c 
De-Conrcy,  i.,  35,  147,  156,  &c., 

822,  446 ;  iL,  723. 
De-la-Hoyde,  L,  1 1, 12 ;  ii,  477,  &c 

VOL.  II. 


Delamer,    i^   214,    892,   424;    ii, 

266-7,  485,  &c 
Delany,  L,  32 ;  ii.,  254. 
Dempsey,  L,  71,  111,  &e. 
Denn,L,  227;  iL,  455,  te. 
Derenzy,  i.,  82. 
Deyenish,  L,  176,  &c. 
Devereaz,  L,  32. 
Dillon,  i.,  6,  10,  11,  12,  33,  38,  89, 

50,  74,  96,  119,  300,  422;  iL,  45, 

242,  &c,  261,  276, 277, 278, 298, 

305,  425. 
Dobin,  ii.,  370,  &a,  406. 
Dodd,  ii.,  707,  &c. 
Doddington,  L,  252,  &c 
Dolphin,  ii.,  175,288. 
Donellan,  L,  72 ;  iL,  285,  282,  297, 

&c,  538. 
Dongiin,  L,  11,  12,  48,  49,  66,  890, 

Donnelly,  i.,  87 ;  ii.^  350. 
Donworth,  L,  456. 
Doran,  L,  84 ;  iL,  253i 
Domey^  iL,  495,  &c 
Doinngton,  L,  11,  39;  ii.,  9,  &&. 
Dong^L,  188;  iL,  127. 
Dowdallt  i-t  6,  35,  329;  ii.,  19^  Ac, 

869,466. 
Dowell,  iL,  288,  568. 
Dowling,  L,  34 ;  iL,  666. 
Doyle^  L,  32 ;  iL,  254,  483^  &e. 
Drake,  L,  155 ;  ii.,  654 
Draycot,  i.,  6,  34,  66. 
Dnckeafield,  L,  898,  &c 
Duffe,  ii.,  79,  &c 
Duffy,  ii.,  603,  &c. 
Dnignan,  ii.,  561,  &c 
Dolhnnty,  iL,  665,  &c. 
Dunkin,  L,  462,  &c 
Dunne,  ii.,  94,  239,  &c,  254. 
Dynan,  i.,  457,  &c 

3  p 


ns:    --»i:.. 


802 


INDEX. 


Eocleston,  i.,  253,  &c. 
Edgeworth,  i.,  11,  399. 
Edwards,  ii.,  46. 
Egan,  i.,  32,  36 ;  ii.,  439,  &c. 
Elliot,  i.,  32,  36 ;  ii.,  254,  646. 
EUis,  i.,  33 ;  ii.,  692. 
Eniiiis,  ii.,  482,  580,  &c 
Esmonde,  i.,  174;  ii.,  395,  &c. 
Eustace,  i.,  67,  391^  396;  iL,  238, 

413,  443,  &c. 
Everard)  i.,  135,  278,  &c.,  453;  ii., 

523. 
Even,  i.,  228,  &c. 

Fagan,  i.,  186,  437;   ii.,   16,  &c., 

253-4,  331,  &c. 
Falvey,  ii.,  496,  &c. 
Fanning,  i.,  202 ;  ii.,  620,  &c. 
Fay,  i.,  338,  &c. 
Fennell,  i.,  453,  &c. ;  ii.,  253. 
Ferris,  ii.,  683. 
Feiriter,  ii.,  222,  &c.,  642. 
Fisher,  ii.,  401,  &c 
Fitton,  i.,  11 ;  ii.,  691,  &c. 
Fitz^Enstace,  i.,  437. 
FitzGcrald,i.,  6, 10, 21, 33, 34*5-6-9, 

203,  205,  376,  422;  ii.,  39,  115, 

254,  309,  319,  328,  375,  417,  &c, 

444,  534,  584,  740. 
FitzGibbon,  iL,  509,  Sec. 
Fitz-James,  ii.,  83,  &c. 
Fitz-Manrice,  i.,  82,  269,  37S;  ii., 

28,  152,  253,  329. 
Fitz-Patrick,  i.,  6«  11,  34,  189;  ii.^ 

120,  &c.,  152. 
Fitz-Simon,  L,  32 ;  ii.,  254. 
Fitz-William,  i*,  51, 802;  ii.,792,  &c. 
Fleming,  L,  6,  12,  82,  34,  87,  66, 

243 ;  ii.,  26,  340,  &c,  466,  527. 
Floyd,  i.,  12. 
Forbes,  L,  32,  57;  ii.,  197. 


Forde,  i.,  35;  ii.,  81,  &c. 
Forstall,  ii.,  592,  &c. 
Foreter,  i.,  437 ;  ii.,  590,  &c. 
Fortescue,  i.,  241. 
Fox,  ii.,  126-7,  728,  &c 
French,  i.,  38,  116,  370,  425;  ii., 
210,  410,  428,  534,  670,  673,  &c. 
Furlong,  i.,  7,  379,  &c. 

Gafiiey,  ii.,  585,  &c.  -<^>^A^  )j,  . 

dwey,  i. '  3.5,  ^39,  &^/''^'''^/0^ 
Crarvan,  iL,  228,  &c.  / 

Garvey,  iL,  112.  ./ 

Geoghegan,  L,  32,  34,  38,  296,  &c., 

365;  iL,  557,  581,788. 
Geraon,  L,  11,  35, 130,  &c. ;  ii.,  74. 
Gibbons,  ii.,  78,  578. 
GifiTord,  i.,  249,  &c. 
Gilmore,  ii.,  762,  &c. 
de  Ginkeil,  i.,  295. 
Gough,  i.,  36 ;  ii.,  227,  404,  &c 
Gould,  i.,  86;  ii.,  885,  &c,  646. 
Gower,  iL,  125. 
Grace,  i.,  7,  10,  12,  32,  34,  79,  202 ;  - 

ii.,  564,  &c. 
Grady,  iL,  507,  642,  &c. 
Graham,  L,  345,  &c ;  ii.,  551. 
Grant,  i.,  447,  &c. 
Greene,  i.,  254,  &c 
Griffin,  i.,  378,  429,  &c ;  iL,  371. 

Hackett,  L,  38,  36,  278 ;  ii.,  81,  &c. 

Hadsor,  ii.,  657,  &c« 

Hagarty,  iL,  355,  &c. 

Hales,  ii.,  460. 

Halfjpenny,  ii.,  315. 

Haly,  L,  87,  447 ;  ii.,  505,  &c. 

Hamilton,  L^  10,  11,  12,  23,  39,  50, 

56,  58,  71,  75,  76,  179,  &c ;  iL, 

18,  31,  70,  236,  717,  718. 
ELarding,  ii.,  744,  &c. 


INDEX. 


803 


Harford,  L,  886,  &c 
Harman,  i.  35 ;  li.,  7. 
Harney,  L,  97,  &c. 
Harris,  iL,  241. 
Harrold,  ii.,  75,  &e. 
Harte,  i.,  32 ;  ii.,  254,  290. 
Hastings,  L,  44,  45,  253,  &c 
Haughton,  i.,  11,  172,  &c. 
Hayes,  il.,  648,  &c 
Head,  i.,  36. 
Heaphy,  ii.,  694,  &a 
Heame,  i.,  418;  ii.,'92,  &a 
Henessy,  ii.,  694,  &c. 
Herbert,  ii.,  428,  &c. 
Hickey,  i.,  349,  &c, 
Higgins,  i.,  32. 
Hill,  L,  327. 
Hobb,  1.,  253,  &o. 
Hoey,  i.,  35. 

Hogan,  i.,  11,  324;  ii.,  106,  &c, 
Hollywood,  i.,  6,  243. 
Holmes,  i.,  73 ;  ii.,  239,  &c 
Horan,  ii.,  301,  &c.,  371. 
JBore,  i.,  6 ;  ii.,  573,  &c. 
Houlahan,  ii.,  350,  &c. 
Howiey,  ii.,  414,  &c. 
Hurleston,  ii.,  230,  &o. 
Hurley,  i.,  32, 1 1 6, 321 ,  &c ;  ii.,  376. 
Hussey,  ii.,  457,  &c.,  740. 
Hyde,  ii.,  108,  495,  &c. 
Hynes,  i.,  245,  &c. 

iTorie,  ii.,  108,  &c. 

Jans,  ii.,  652,  &c 

Jennings,  L,  32, 50;  ii.,438,  &c.,  551. 

Jermyn  (Lord  Dover),  i.,  18,  &c. 

Jones,  ii.,  348,  &c. 

Jordan,  ii.,  254,  282. 

Joyce,  ii.,  524,  680,  &c. 


Eeaghley,  ii.,  649,  &c. 

Eeane,  i.,  38. 

Kearney,  L,  36,  133. 

Keating,  L,  11;  ii.,  448,  582,  621, 

&C.,  714. 
Kendelan,  ii.,  91,  &c 
Kenealy,  ii.,  59,  &c. 
Kenney,  ii.,  421,  &c 
Keogb,  iL,  404,  &c. 
King,  i.,  96,  «&c. 
Kinsellagh,  ii.,  400,  &c. 
Kirwan,  i.,  38,  327;  ii.,  517,  &c. 
Knaresborough,  ii.,  578,  &cs. 
Kyan  (see  *  O'Cahane.')  ^ 

Lacy,i.,  6, 234;  ii.,  240, 331, 386, &c. 
Laffan,  i.,  7,  S% 
Lafly,  ii.,  260,  &c. 
I4unbert,  i.,  35,  41^6 ;  ii.,  409,  &c. 
Lane,  i.,  177,  &c,  409.     -    /      ./         / 
Lattin,  ii.,  45,  &c.        ^  ^  «  ^  '^  * '  ■  -^ 
de  Iianzun,  i.,  39 ;  ii.,  774,  &c. 
Lawless,  i.,  34,  225,  &c. ;  ii.,  8. 
Ledwich,  ii.,  658,  &c 
lieicester,  L,  170,  &c.;  ii.,  266. 
Leigh,  Lee,  &c.,  i.,  33 ;  ii.,  106, 591, 

Leonard,  i.,  35,  203,  359. 
L'Estrange,  ii.,  286. 
Levallen,  i.,  438,  &c. 
Leyns,  iL,  13,  519,  &c, 
Lloyd,  i.,  126,  281. 
Locke,  i.,  259,  &c, 
Lofhis,  i.,  120,  251,  320,  393. 
Long,  ii.,  258. 
Longan,  i.,  36.  ^ 
Loughnan,  iL,  592,  &c. 
Jjovelock,  ii.,  525,  &c. 
Lowick,  L,  255,  &c. 
Lowrie,  i.,  46],  &c. 
Lub€,  L,  205,  &c. 


y-u 


804 


IKDBX. 


Lucas,  L,  399,  &c. ;  ii.,  508. 
Lumbard,  ii.,  640,  Ac 
Lnndj,  L,  II,  12,  56,  189. 
Luttrell,  i.,  6, 10-U2, 33, 61-7, 210, 

&c,  389,  &c. ;  ii.,  197. 
Lynam,  ii.,  287,  &c, 
— Lynch,  L,  12;  iL,   175,  271,  414, 

519,  &c. 
Lysagbt,  i.,  277,  373,  &c,  423, 

Mac  Allister,  i.,  101,  &e, 
Mac  Artane,  i.,  11,  37,  461. 
Mao  AuMe,  ii.,  639,  dbc 
Mao  Awley,  iL,  265,  &c 
MacCabe,  L,  37,  94;   iL,  746.7, 

753,  &o. 
Mac  Cann,  ii.,  376,  Ac. 
Mac  Carthie,  L,  6,  10,  32^5.6,  57, 

155,  261-7, 433 ;  ii.,  96,  &o.,  1 15, 

&c,  345,  682-3. 
Mac Cormick,  L,  345 ;  iL,  254,770,  &c. 
,    Mac  Dermott,  L,  32-8,  138,  143, 

185,  425;   ii.,   189,  253^,  260, 

273,  Ac,  284,  771,  &c 
MacDoniiell,  L,  37,  342;  ii.,  160, 

&c,  307,  357,  &c.,  550,  686,  780. 
Mac  DoDOugh,  i.,  32-5;  ii.,  279,  ^c, 

508,  689. 
Mac  EDigott,  ii.,  735,  &c 
Mac  Crettigan,  L,  159,  &o. 
Mac  Gill,  ii.,  200,  &c.,  854,  do. 
Mac  Gillicuddy,  i.,  262 ;  ii.,  764,  fto. 
Mac  Gowran,  ii.,  558,  &c 
Mac  Gmness,  L,  U,  37 ;  ii.,  729,  &c 
Mac  Guire,  i.,  6,  37;  iL,  176,  &c, 

199,  755,  &0. 
Mac  Kenna,  iL,  312,  &c. 
Mac  Kenzie,  i.,  406,  &c. 
Mac  Key,  ii.,  373,  &o. 
Mac  Mahon,  i.,  6,  37,  138;  iL  593, 
&c,  764. 


Mac  Manns,  ii.,  380,  Sec 

Mac  MuDen,  L,  468. 

Mac  Nally,  ii.,  381. 

MacNamaiv,  L,  6, 12, 35-6, 1 65,  &c., 

356,  363,  376-7 ;  iL,  264. 
Mac  Namee,  iL,  382,  Stc 
Mac  KaughtoD,  iL,  355,  &c. 
Mac  QuiUan,  iL,  162,  356,  &e. 
MacSweeuy,  L,  37, 262;  ii.,  491,  &e. 
Mac  Teman,  i.,  345,  &c 
Madden,  ii.,  140,  &a,  261, 525, 535, 

611. 
Magee,  L,  11;  iL,  80,  &c. 
Magrath,  L,  36,  138,  363,  &c,  375. 
Mahon,  iL,  150. 
Malone,  L,   U,  34,    110,  340;  ii., 

412,  &c. 
Malpas,  L,  327,  &c 
Mandeville,  L,  36 ;  ii.,  28,  408,  &c. 
Mannering,  L,  347,  350. 
Manning,  i.,  346,  &o. 
Mansfield,  i.,  36 ;  iL,  46,  624,  &c 
Margetson,  iL,  7. 
Marshall,  L,  257,  &c. 
Martin,  i.,  12,  38,   126;   iL,   123, 

675,  &c. 
Marward,  L,  331. 
Massy,  L,  33,  391 ;  ii.,  784. 
Masterson,  ii.,  467,  &c 
Mathews,  L,  12,  239,  &c. 
de  Maumont,  iL,  778,  Ao, 
Maunsell,  L,  278. 
Maxwell,  L,  39,  76,  275,  459,  &c 
Meade,  L,  35,  285 ;  ii.,  493,  &c. 
Meagh,  L,  285,  &c 
Melfort,  Lord,  L,  57-^,  861. 
Mellefont,  L,  445 ;  iL,  683,  &G. 
Metham,  L,  252. 
Missett,  ii.,  230,  &c 
Moolare,  i.,  215,  &c.,  278,  392. 
Moloney,  iL,  699,  &c 


INDEX. 


805 


Mooney,  ii.,  Q65, 

Morgan,  iL,  256,  &c. 

Moriarty,  iL,  328. 

Morley,  i.,  400,  &c 

Morris,  i.,  34,  215,  &c.;  ii.,  235, 

254,611. 
Morrow,  i.,  36 ;  iL,  683,  Ac. 
Mortimer,  iL,  92,  &c. 
Molhftll,  i.,  32 ;  iL,  535. 
Mulledy,  ii.,  41,  &c. 
MulTaney,  ii.,  113,  &c.,  553. 
Murphy,  ii.,  76,  &c 

Nagle,  L,  32^,  160,  &&,  202,  286; 

iL,  249,  254,  328,  331,  715. 
Nangle,  L,  7, 10, 31-4, 40;  iL,  38,  &c 
Ketterville,  L,  10.1-2,  48, 330,  &c.; 

ii.,  65,  420. 
Neville,  iL,  484,  &c. 
Newcomen,  L,    10-1,  57,  67,   1?0, 

391 ;  ii.,  473. 
Neylan,  iL,  703,  &c 
Nickson,  ii.,  400,  &c. 
Nihill,  ii.,  47,  &c,  512. 
Nisbett,  iL,  551-2-3. 
Koble,  ii.,  430. 
Kottingham,  i.,  131. 
Nugent,  L,  6,  7,  9,  10-2-9,  34-6-7, 

49,  60,  66-7,  288,  296-7,   339, 

377,  410,  424,  425-7;   ii.,  229, 

421-2,  441,  469,  &c ,  654-9,  662, 

787-8. 

O'Bohilly,  i.,  386,  &c. 

0*Brian,  L,  6,   12,  33-6,  98,  138, 

227,  325,  352,  &c.,  368,  482 ;  ii., 

698,  &C.,  769. 
O'Byme,  L,  32-4-5,  357;  iL,  22, 

&c.,  283,  445,  508. 
0*Cahane,  iL,  361,  &c 
O^Callaglian,  L,    12,  26;    ii.,   165, 

687,  &c. 


O'CarroU,  i.,  10,  14,  3^4, 296, 312, 
&c.,  359,  432,  &c ;  iL,  466. 

O'Clery,  L,  354. 

0*Connell,  L,  11;  ii.,  240,  3S0l.], 
344,  &c.,  375. 

O'Connor — Ballintdbber,  &c.,  L, 
136,  &c.;  175,697. 

O'Connor— Kerry,  L,  269 ;  ii.,  325, 

O'Connor— Ofikley,  L,  297,  425. 
O'Connor — Sligo,  i.,  315;  iL,  171, 

188,  279,  529,  &c. 
O'Crilley,  iL,  382,  &c 
O'Dea,  L,  386,  &c 
O'Dohertie,  iL,  192,  877,  &c 
O^Donnell,  L,  37,  51,  395;  iL,  183, 

&C.,  488,  492,  531,  65a 
O'Donogbue,  iL,  318,  &c,  740, 6c. 
O'Donovan,  i.,  35-6 ;  iL,  325,  647, 

708,  &c- 
O'Dowde,  ii.,  654,  &c 
O'DriscoU,  iL,  722,  &c 
O'Duigin,  iL,  666,  &c 
O'Dirype,  ii,,  625,  &c. 
O'Fallon,  L,  38, 142, 371;  iL,  696,&c. 
O'Ferrall,  i.,  34,  138,  406,  &c. ;  ii., 

253-4,  284,  551,  611,  654, 750. 
O'Flahertie,  i.,  315;  ii.,  292,  &c, 
O'Flynn,  L,  32 ;  ii.,  537,  &c.,  788. 
O'Gallaher,  iL,  560,  &c 
O'Gara,  i.,  28 ;  iL,  282,  526,  &c. 
O'Gorman,  ii.,  349,  &c. 
O'Grady,  L,  325. 
O'Hagan,  L,  38 ;  ii.,  354,  &c 
O'Hanlon,  iL,  30,  310,  &&,  556. 
O'Hara,  i.,  37 ;  iL,  70,  &o- 
O'Heffeman,  i.,  206,  &c. 
O'Hehir,  L,  380,  &c. 
O'Herlihey,  ii.,  504,  &c 
O'Hogan,  L,  354,  376-7. 
O'Eeefie,  ii.,  253,  643,  &c. 


n'  fk 


806 


INDEX. 


O^Eelly^i.,  13,  26,  3d,  124,  &o. 
0*Rennedy,  i.,  32,  282,  &c 
Oldfidd,  i.,  256,  &c 
O^Leaiy,  ii.,  496,  &c. 
O'Loghlen,  i.,  376 
O'Lyne,  L,  455. 

O'Mahony,  iL,  254,  375,  499,  &c. 
Oldamey,  iL,  110,  &o.,  174. 
O'Meagher,  i.,  32*6,  315;  ii.,  565, 

618,  &o. 
O'Meara,  i.,  82,  60,  78,  &c. ;  ii.,  253. 
O^Melagfalin,  i.,  138, 300;  ii.,285,&c 
O'More  or  Moore,  i.,  7, 12,  32-3-A- 

6^,  66,  95,   121,  293,  411;  ii., 

253,  426,  463,  605,  &c  6»&  * 
O'Mulloy,  L,  138,  300;  ii.,  277, 283, 

554,  &C. 
0*Naughtoii,  ii.,  558,  &G. 
O'Neill,  i.,  6,  10-1-2, 37-8,  40, 138, 

273,  303,  335,  &c.,  341,  396;  ii., 

136,    162,    185,    191-2-6,    224, 

253-4,  353,  &c.,  610,  627,  &c., 

749,751,  760,  &c.fc^U 
O'Nolan,  ii.,  677,  &c.^ 
O'Quinn,  i.,  35-7, 369,  &c. ;  ii.,  379. 
O'Regao,  iL,  198,  715,  727,  &c. 
O'ReiUy,  L,  6,  11,  37,  94,  337,  425; 

ii.,  745,  &c. 
0*Riordan,  L,  126,  337,  &a 
O'Rourke,  i.,  11-2, 38,  140;  ii.,  174, 

188,  195,  202,  &C.,  278,  285. 
O'Ryan,  L,  36,  322-4 ;  ii.,  139, 439, 

700,  &c 
O'Shanghnessy,  L,    38,    141,    362, 

366,  &c. 
O'SuUivan,  L,  11,  32-5,  260,  &c; 

ii.,  254,  318,  766.      *" 
OToole,  L,  32-5;  iL,  63,  &c.,  253, 

445-6,  469,  &c. 
Otway,  i.,  79,  395. 
Ozburgh,  L,  33-4;  iL,  661,  &c 


Palle8,ii.,  611,  652,  Ac. 

Parker,  L,  247,  &c. 

Farsona,  L,  50,  151,  316,  444;  iL, 

532. 
Pay,  iL,  585,  &o. 
Pearson,  iL,  577,  &c. 
Pechell,  ii.,  667,  &c. 
Perkins,  i.,  400,  &c. 
Peny,  L,  381,  &c. 
Petit,  ii.,  231,  &c. 
Phelan,  see  '  OTallon/ 
PhiUips,  L,  362;  ii.,  281,  &c. 
Piers,  L,  32,  347,  &c. 
Pigott,  ii.,  427,  &c. 
Pippard  (Pepper),  L,  85;  iL,  309, 

313,  &c. 
Plunket,  L,  6,  7,  11-2,  32-5,  131, 

143,  187,  214,  219,  &&,  422;  ii., 

195,   254,   321,    429,    &c.,   654, 

786-9. 
Porter,  i.,  7,  36,  177;  ii.,  84,  &c 
Powell,  iL,  259,  &c. 
Power,  L,  6,  12,  36,  371 ;  iL,  117, 

159,  205,  &C.,  437. 
Prendergast,  L,  77,  234,  &c, 
Preston,  L,  1 1,  123 ;  iL,  39, 55, 151, 

982,  &c.,  299. 
Price,  ii.,  403,  &c. 
Purcell,  L,  10-2,  33-6,  61,  272,  &c.; 

ii.,  766. 
Purdon,  L,  373,  &c,  422. 
de  Puaignan,  ii.,  777,  &c. 

Quigley,  ii.,  129,  &c. 
Quirke,  iL,  414,  &c. 

Reade,  L,  32 ;  ii.,  93,  &c.,  254,  654. 

Reddy,  L,  345,  &c 

Redmond,  L,  207,  &c. ;  ii.,  254. 

Reeves,  ii.,  325. 

Reynolds,  i.,  11,  88;  ii.,  257,  &c 


INDEX. 


807 


Rice,  L,  9,  12-9,  85-6,  110,  200, 

&c  ;  ii.,  343,  379. 
Boberts,  L,  32 ;  ii.,  42,  &c 
Roche,  L,  n,  35,  81,  &c.,  147, 280 ; 

ii.,  507,  656. 
Rochfort,  iL,  462,  &c. 
Ronayne,  ii.,  226,  &c» 
de  Rosen,  iL,  773,  &c 
Roth,!.,  11,  226;  iL,  7,  &c. 
Russell,  L,  lOul,  33,  357;  ii.,  27, 

&c. 
Rudedge,  iL,  284,  &c. 

Sale,  Sanle,  iL,  704,  &c 

Sarefield,  i.,  6,  7,  83-5-9,  64,  75, 

146,  &c.,  445;  ii.,  138,  434,  &c., 

610. 
Saunders,  ii.,  81. 
Savage,  i.,  37,  341,  &c. 
Scanlan,  ii.,  706,  &c 
Schonbei^,  L,  59,  60. 
Scott,  iL,  663,  &c. 
Scurlog,  i.,  6,  339 ;  iL,  609. 
Segrave,  L,  7,  83,  131,  214,  329, 

337;  ii.,  41,  464,  &c 
Selbj,  L,  270,  &c. 
Sexton,  iL,  201. 
Shanly,  L,  411 ;  iL,  547,  &Ci 
Shee,  i.,  32^ ;  ii.,  253-4,  406,  &c. 
Sheehan,  ii.,  693,  &c. 
Sheenan,  ii.,  704,  &c. 
Sheil,  ii.,  759,  &c 
Sheldon,  i.,  39,  73,  &c ;  ii.,  253. 
Sheridan,  L,  11,  12. 
Sherlock,  L,  7,  36 ;  ii.,  88,  &c,  285. 
Shortall,  ii.,  572,  &c. 
Singleton,  i.,  423. 
Skdton,  L,  116,  257,  &c. ;  ii.,  58) 

120. 
Skerret,  ii.,  533,  680,  &c. 
Smith,  i.,  11 ;  ii.,  127,  372^  &c. 


Spenser,  L,  301 ;  ii.,  441,  &c. 

St.  Leger,  i.,  99,  &c. 

St.  Ruth,  i.,  63;  ii.,  104,  781,  &c 

Stack,  ii.,  508,  512,  &c. 

Stackpoole,  L,  375-7. 

Sta£ford,  L,  3,  12,  37^  306;  ii.,  6^ 

223,  &c. 
Stanley,  iL,  73,  &c. 
Stapleton,  ii.,.426,  &c. 
Staunton,  L,  38,  451,  &c. 
Stephens,  ii.,  92,  &Ci 
Stephenson,  ii.,  50,  148,  &c,  743.  - 
Stokes,  iL,  240,  &c.  ;:^C^^\  l  U^'^'i70 

Stritch,  i.,  269,  &c  ^-^  ^  ^J  S 
Strongman,  L,  101,  &c    ^     /     ^ 
Stuart,  &c.,  L^  11 ;  ii.,  356,  &c.i 

551. 
Supple,  i.,  35 ;  iL,  438,  &C. 
Sutherland,  i.,  233,  &c 
Sutton,  i.,  396,  437;  ii.,  86,  &c.{ 

787. 
Sweetman,  L,  401,  &c. 
Synnot,  L,  173,  &c. 

Taaffe,  L,  6,  12;  ii.,  48,  &c.,  283, 

566. 
Talboti  i.,  6,  9,  IOl.1-2-3,  33-4-5-9* 

41,3c.,  198,  328,  424;  iL,  148* 

166!^,  249,  454. 
Tankard,  ii.,  656,  &c. 
Taylor,  L,  95,  435,  &c. ;  ii.,  19. 
Terry,  ii.,  109,  &c,  394. 
de  Tess6,  ii.,  779,  &c 
Throckmorton,  ii.,  432,  &c. 
Tiemey,  iL,  409,  &o. 
Tinte,  iL,  44,  &c. 
Tipper,  ii.,  57,  &c. 
Tobin,  i.,  11,  36,  111 ;  ii.,  411,  &c.| 

582. 
Touchett,  iL,  61,  &c. 
Tracy,  iii,  7a 


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IKDEX. 


Trant,  L,  33-4,  201 ;  ii.,  323,  ACy 

334. 
Trappe,  iL,  639,  &c. 
Traver,  i.,  284,  &c 
Tuite,  i.,  32,  234 ;  1 19,  789,  &o. 
Tuke,  1.,  60,  87. 
TuUy,  ii.,  302,  &c 
Tyrrell,  i.  393,  &c ;  iL,  175,  2ia 

Uriall,  ii.,  350,  &c 
Usher,  i.,  12 ;  iL,  91,  Ad 

Vaughan,  ii.,  201,  &c; 
Yerdon,  i.^  242,  &C. 

Wadding,  L,  7 ;  ii.,  626,  &c 
Wale,  Wall,  i.,  33,  286;  iL,  410, 

&c.,  678. 
Walgrare,  ii.,  562,  &c. 
Wakh,  L,  6,  10,  36}  ii.^  812^  Ac, 

253-4,  263i 


Ward,  L,  37 ;  ii.,  604,  &c. 

Ware,  i.,  364,  413 ;  u.,  59,  &e.,  257. 

Warren,  L,  34;  iL,  34,  &c,  254^ 

399. 
Wauchop,  L,  39 ;  iL,  719,  733,  dkc., 

793,  Ac. 
Wddon,  iL,  47. 

Wellesley,  L,  92 ;  iL,  86-9, 459, 47a 
White,  i.,  7,  1 1-2,  35-6-7,  67,  201, 

457 ;  ii.,  18,  479,  &o.,  706. 
Wickham,  ii.,  479,  &o. 
Williams,  L,  310,  349,  &o. ;  iL^  8. 
Winston,  ii.,  225,  &c. 
Wogan,  L,  11^  33,  57;  ii.,  450,  &o. 
Wolfe,  L,  413;  ii.,  510,  &c. 
Wdventon^  L,  7,  35;  ii.,  612,  Ac 
Wray,  L^  237,  &c. 
Wyer,  i.,  427,  Ac 
Wyse,  ii.,  21 4, 

Younge*  iL^  427,  &c 


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